According to Forbes, the fortune of the world richest man, the head of the American corporation Amazon, Jeff Bezos, has exceeded a record $180 billion.
It is noted that Bezos’ fortune increased because of rising share value of his company Amazon. According to the publication, Amazon’s capitalization reached $1.54 trillion. Thus, Bezos’ fortune (he owns 11.1% of the company’s shares) exceeded $182.6 billion. This is a record for all the time of such statistics.
According to Bloomberg, Bezos’s wealth is equivalent to 0.89% of the US GDP and accounts for 3% of the total wealth of the world’s 500 richest people.
On Thursday, Amazon announced the release of its updated smart glasses Echo Frames starting on December 10. Now everyone will be able to buy it. The new product from Amazon for $ 250 will go on sale just before the holiday weeks, which is a good time to start the release. Analysts and market experts […]
Shares of Zoom and other companies, which rose amid the pandemic and lockdown, fell in trading on Monday. The reason was the announcement of two biotechnology companies about the successful testing of a promising vaccine, writes CNBC. Shares of the Zoom video conferencing service fell 17.4% by the end of the trading day. Amazon and […]
Shares of Amazon, which rose by 73.8% since the beginning of the year (more than the growth of Apple, Microsoft, Google and Facebook), fell 2% after closing trading on Thursday, when the company released a report for the 3rd quarter, which ended September 30. Amazon set a new revenue record, e-commerce increased sales by 57% […]
According to trading data, securities of the microblogging service Twitter Inc. after the close of the main trading session in the US fell in price by more than 17%, also according to financial statements, in the red were the shares of US technology giants Amazon, Apple and Facebook, only Alphabet reporting pleased investors. Thus, shares […]
In the last week of October, investors expect a lot of news, as more than one-third of the components of the S&P 500 index, or 186 companies, must report financial results for the third quarter. The information field is even richer given the election race in the United States, the situation with the pandemic and […]
On Tuesday, shares of the four largest US technology companies declined, as the 16-month government investigation of their competitive practices led to the first results in the form of 449-page report on their abuse of the market power. Shares of Apple, Amazon, Facebook and the parent company Google Alphabet fell to 2.9%, 3%, 2.26% and […]
Introduced five years ago in Amazon’s warehouses the robots did not make the life easier for the employees – on the contrary, people are now forced to work four times faster. In addition, the robotics has brought Amazon warehouses to the record 14,000 serious injuries by the end of 2019. The current figures are to […]
On Tuesday, Amazon announced another innovation – Amazon One technology, which will be tested for the first time in two Amazon Go stores in Seattle. The company has established in their new turnstiles which will be the quicker alternative to make the purchases. The format of the Amazon Go stores is designed so that customers […]
Zaporizhzhya NPP connected Unit №2 to the power system of Ukraine. This was reported by the press service of NNEGC Energoatom. “On November 22 at 9:07 pm, after the completion of the average planned and preventive repairs, Unit №2 of Zaporizhzhya NPP is connected to the power system. Power is being set. There are no […]
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Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd. is going to open the department in Ukraine. The representatives of Ukrainian delegation who had visited the Eastern country with diplomatic purpose informed about it. The parties have discussed the perspectives of countries cooperation in the sphere of economy and business. The main thing was R&D centre and laboratory opening on the […]
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According to the CEO of Astarta, Victor Ivanchik, the investment plan has already been approved. The money also will be spent on the modernization of agricultural production and technology, modernization of sugar factories. The total investment of agricultural holding Astarta for 2016 remains at the level of 2015 and amounts to € 24 million, 60% […]
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Direction of LLC Development Construction Holding (DCH), whose president is Oleksander Yaroslavskyi, is considering to lease the OPP instead of the acquisition of assets of this PJSC, reported Zn.ua. In an official statement of OPP representatives was indicated that they appealed to the State Property Fund of Ukraine in order to initiate an open competition […]
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The Chinese company POWERCHINA and the Ukrainian company WindFarm have signed a contract for the joint construction of a wind farm in the Donetsk region. This was reported by the press service of WindFarm. “The cost of the project is at least $ 1 billion, which makes it the largest wind energy project in Ukraine,” […]
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In China, two more developers are unable to repay their debts: Fantasia Holdings has been unable to repay bonds worth $ 205.7 million, and Sinic Holdings is uncertain about the repayment of $ 246 million in bonds, the BBC reports. The day before, trading in Evergrande shares was suspended on the eve of “an announcement […]
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Shares of PayPal, increased up to 70.7% since the beginning of the year, continued to rise after the announcement of the financial results of the 2nd quarter which ended on June 30. This is not surprising given the growth of digital payments against the background of the global pandemic COVID-19. “The world has moved into […]
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Tesla is recalling about 50,000 Model S and Model X cars manufactured in the United States in different years and imported to China due to the identified suspension problems. This was reported on its website by the Chinese State Administration of Market Regulation. According to the statement of the Chinese regulator, almost 30 thousand Model […]
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January 17 of this year it became known on completion of the procedure of purchase of one of the largest in Eastern Europe IT-company SoftServe assets of Polish developer Coders Centre software, as reported online edition Inventure. The exact amount of the said financial transaction is not advertised, but experts believe that it is between […]
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The court satisfied the third claim of Oschadbank against the Creative company. It is reported by the press service of the Bank. According to the report, on April 28, the Commercial Court of Kirovograd region satisfied the third claim of Oschadbank against the Creative company and the Creative Agro company for solidarity overdue debt collection […]
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Ukrainian Network of supermarkets Novus gets a new CEO in the person of Mark Petkevich. His predecessor, Ihor Landa is leaving the post. The new ruler of Novus Ukraine, which has held the position of executive director of the network since September 2015, will enter the status of the General on January 19 this year. […]
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Recently, foreign automobile corporations are increasingly exposed to multi-million dollar fines from regulators. The reason is negligence of manufacturers who violate the road safety legislation at the stage of cars’ production. Scandals accompanied by multi-million dollar fines recently occurred in companies BMW, Volkswagen, and Fiat Chrysler, which subjected the charges from the regulatory authorities for […]
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In 2020, the state gas company Ukrgazvydobuvannya reduced its net profit by 3.8 times, or 14.1 billion hryvnias to 4.95 billion hryvnias compared to 2019, according to the company’s website. “Although last year due to the situation on the gas market, economic crisis and pandemic, our capital investments decreased almost one and a half times […]
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The total wealth of all dollar millionaires in the world in 2020 increased by 7.6% and amounted to $ 79.6 trillion. The international consulting company Capgemini SA in the annual World Wealth Report reported this. At the same time, the number of wealthy people (high-net-worth individual, HNWI) increased by 6.3% to 20.8 million people. The […]
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According to Interfax-Ukraine, the State Enterprise Production Association Yuzhny Machine-Building Plant named after A.M. Makarov (Yuzhmash) has provided the first step of Antares carrier rocket (CR) medium-class shipping by the interests of Orbital ATK Inc. (NYSE: OA) Company. The international space station renewed the cargo flight after CR modernization with Mild-Atlantic Regional Spaceport due to […]
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“MTS Ukraine” (Vodafone Ukraine), telecommunication company reached an agreement with “Ukrtelecom” about buying mobile operator “TriMob”. As noted, the the transaction amounted to about $ 120 million (3 billion UAH). According to one source , negotiations about the deal began since the spring of last year, when the “MTS Ukraine” has sold its fixed network […]
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