Smartphone shipments in China fell 15.6per cent in August compared with a year earlier, government data released on Thursday showed.
French Finance Minister Bruno Le Maire said on Thursday he will call Lawrence Culp, the head of General Electric , in a bid to save jobs at the Belfort factory in eastern France.
AstraZeneca's chief executive Pascal Soriot said on Thursday that it should know before the end of the year whether its experimental vaccine would protect people from COVID-19, if the British drugmaker is allowed to resume trials which were paused this week.
The number of firms declaring insolvency in Germany was 6.2per cent lower than in the first half of last year despite the coronavirus crisis, the Statistics Office said, partly because of a rule designed to keep firms afloat in the pandemic.
Nomura Securities, a unit of Nomura Holdings Inc , said on Thursday that information related to its corporate clients has been leaked outside through an employee.
Huawei Technologies plans to introduce its Harmony operating system, seen as the company's best bet, to replace Google's Android mobile operating system, on to smartphones next year, the head of its consumer business group said on Thursday.
Toyota Motor Corp's research arm said on Thursday that it would create an US$800 million global investment fund.
Indian oil-to-telecoms conglomerate Reliance Industries is offering to sell a roughly US$20 billion stake in its retail arm to Amazon.com Inc , BloombergQuint reported on Thursday, citing Bloomberg News.
IAG will raise 2.741 billion euros through a fully underwritten, heavily discounted capital increase, the owner of British Airways said on Thursday.
Former Goldman Sachs banker Roger Ng has asked Malaysian prosecutors to review criminal charges against him for allegedly abetting the sale of US$6.5 billion in bonds tied to 1Malaysia Development Berhad (1MDB), his lawyer said on Thursday.
