McDonald's Corp is planning to hire 25,000 new staff in its US restaurants in Texas this month, as lockdown restrictions are easing ahead of summer.
CBS News' executive vice-president Kimberly Godwin has entered the final stages of discussion with Walt Disney over becoming ABC News' new president, a media report showed on Friday.
Prince Philip, the leading figure in Britain's royal family and Queen Elizabeth's husband, has died at the age of 99, according to Buckingham Palace's announcement made on Friday.
Australia's federal court has dismissed the German carmaker Volkswagen's appeal against the record A$125M fine in the emissions cheating scandal, the country's competition regulator reported on Friday.
On Friday, ASOS, UK's online fashion retailer, reported a 275% surge to more than $155M in its first-half profit through Feb. 28 amid an online boom during the pandemic.
On Friday, the South Korean carmaker Hyundai Motor announced it would suspend its output at the Asan plant starting next week due to the global chip shortage.
On Friday, Airbus reported a surge in its March deliveries, boosted by the air travel rebound in the United States and China, sending the company's shares up over 2%.
During Friday's Asian and European trading hours, global stock indices extended the previous day's surge, as a tech stock rally was taking place.
Didi Chuxing, the Chinese top ride-hailing company, has picked Morgan Stanley and Goldman Sachs to lead its mega US IPO, according to Reuters.
Southwest Airlines will recall more than 2.7K of its flight attendants from their leave from June 1 to back the carrier's summer schedule, halting the voluntary furlough programme as more US citizens become vaccinated.
Brazil's Selic interest rate is likely to reach the neutral level as soon as 2022, central bank's director said in a statement earlier this week.
Levi Strauss has raised its H1 revenue growth outlook by 24%-25%, hoping that the COVID-19 vaccine rollouts would drive a return to normalcy, after beating quarterly sales forecasts on the e-commerce boost.
China's Bilibili has entered talks to acquire Yoozoo Games' 24% stake as part of the $765M deal, amid the online video site's intention to lure its young users legion to expand in the Chinese gaming market.
Sports streaming service DAZN is exploring the opportunity of an initial public offering to drive fresh growth, its co-CEO James Rushton said.
Porsche AG, Volkswagen's luxury sports car brand, stated it could not rule out the production cuts amid the global semiconductor chip shortage in the near future and would have to adjust the output to reflect the shortfall.
Ford Motor has followed the move by General Motors on more vehicle production cuts due to the global semiconductor chip shortage, according to the company's statement made on Thursday.
France's Michelin is planning to add nearly €14B to the tyremaker's annual revenues in less than ten years by recovering from the coronavirus-caused slowdown and expanding into new activities, such as medical devices and hydrogen power.
On Thursday, the benchmark S&P 500 hit a new high, boosted by gains in Microsoft Corp, Alphabet Corp, Amazon.com and Apple Inc stocks.
On Thursday, the dollar index, which measures the US Dollar against a basket of major currencies, traded near a two-week low, tracking the US Treasury yields lower.
General Motors is cutting its output at its North American factories amid global chip shortage, according to a CNBC report released on Thursday.
Franklin Templeton and SoftBank Vision Fund 2 have invested $210M in OneTrust at over $5.0B valuation, the security and privacy software provider stated on Thursday.
Gucci owner Kering is on track with its new Italian global logistics hub, as the French luxury group seeks to increase its storage and accelerate global deliveries.
The USA500 stock index started Thursday's US trading with a new all-time-high level, as the market opened above the 4,091.658 mark.
On Thursday, the cloud services provider Box Inc announced it had received a $500M investment led by KKR, the private equity giant, with Box planning a stock buyback with the use of the majority of the funds.