On Wednesday, BMW announced its plans to retool the German plants to build electric vehicles and components, seeking to move its combustion engine manufacturing to factories in England and Austria.
Major US utilities group together with Tesla, Uber and others created a new US lobbying group for national policies aimed to bolster electric vehicle sales.
Amazon France's CEO stated on Wednesday that the second French lockdown was boosting the online retailer's sales with the activity rising 40%-50%.
Bitcoin has broken through $18K this Wednesday to hit thee record-high since December 2017, driven by growing demand for the cryptocurrency's perceived quality as expectations of the mainstream acceptance and inflation hedge.
On Wednesday, Apple announced its plans to launch a programme to lift down its App Store fees for smaller software developers, who have not more than $1M in proceeds annually from the store.
General Motors is set to announce on Thursday its expanded and boosted electric vehicle strategy in the company's effort to assure investors about its chances to be a serious rival to Tesla.
On Wednesday, Pfizer has reported its COVID-19 vaccine trial's final results showed a 95% success rate, paving its way to apply for the emergency US authorisation within days.
The US Federal Aviation Administration's chief Steve Dickson stated he was "100% confident" about the Boeing 737 MAX being safety, allowing the planes to resume flights on Wednesday.
The Swiss financial giant UBS projected on Tuesday that production and earnings would return to pre-pandemic levels by the end of next year.
McDonald's brand, McCafe, stated on Tuesday that it would invest $381. 6M in Shanghai coffee market over the next three years.
The US Boeing stated on Tuesday that air cargo transportation is expected to grow 4% annually over the next two decades, thus creating a demand for production of more cargo planes.
According to Le Monde newspaper report published on Tuesday, Air France-KLM is discussing ways to raise $7.1B from its main shareholders.
Twitter Inc has appointed Peiter Zatko, the world's most respected hackers, as the new head of security.
On Tuesday, the US Treasury Department granted Chevron Corp a new license to wind down its operations in Venezuela by June 3.
On Tuesday, the European Central Bank President Christine Lagarde said that an effective COVID-19 vaccine would not be a major game-changer for ECB's economic forecasts.
On Tuesday, Amazon.com launched an online drugstore, a new service offering home delivery for prescription medications in the US.
Total household debt in the United States increased by $87 billion to $14.35 trillion in the Q3, the New York Federal Reserve reported on Tuesday.
On Tuesday, Home Depot announced that it would spend $1B on permanent wage increases for frontline hourly employees.
China's search engine Baidu stated that it would acquire JOYY's video-based live streaming business in China for about $3.6B in cash.
Wirecard's insolvency administrator Michael Jaffe stated that the company's tech assets and platform were to Spain's Banco Santander.
Dutch chipmaker NXP Semiconductors entered a strategic partnership with cloud computing unit of Amazon.com to allow cars to communicate with data centres.
Autodesk Inc stated that it bought Spacemaker, a Norwegian company whose applications are used by architects, for $240M.
Swedish truckmaker Scania announced plans to invest more than 1B Swedish crowns or $116M over the next years in its battery assembly plant.
Germany's carmaker Daimler is set to cooperate with China's Geely to develop a next-generation combustion engine to be used in hybrids.