Desktop and laptop computers demand has hit record high this year since Apple's iPhone debut in 2007, with manufacturers struggling to fulfil their outstanding orders, according to hardware industry executives.
Delta Air Lines and United Airlines are requiring all UK passengers who travel to the US to show a negative test for COVID-19 valid during 72 hours of their departure.
On Wednesday, the first train from Istanbul loaded with more than one thousand refrigerators reached the city of Xi'an in northern China.
According to the Big Data Development Administration, Chinese authorities in the province of Guizhou managed to create 20,215 base stations to fasten 5G development.
According to a report published by the Energy Information Administration, the US crude oil imports and exports rose 5.6M and 3.1M barrels per day last week, accordingly.
According to a report prepared by the World Bank, China's economic activity recovered faster than projected, resulting in 2% GDP growth.
The SEDB announced in the end of the week that the country's manufacturing output surged 17.9% YOY in November after 0.8% in October.
The Portuguese budget deficit reached $2.4B in the third quarter of 2020, or 3.8% of gross domestic product, data released by the National Statistics Institute show.
The economy of China will expand 2% this year and 7.9% in 2021, faster than previously expected, a report published by the World Bank shows.
The economy of Canada expanded 0.4% in October after a 0.8% growth in September, data published by the Statistics Canada show.
Economic activity in Bolivia contracted 9.56% between January and October, compared to the same period in 2019, the National Statistics Institute reports.
Uzbekistan attracted $6.6B in foreign direct investment in 2020 and wants to increase it to $7.6B in 2021, data published by the government show.
China launched an antitrust probe into Alibaba Group and will summon the company's Ant Group affiliate to meet in following days, regulators stated.
Apollo Global Management said that its institutional investors' group would buy a stake of 49.9% in AB InBev's metal container plants based in the US for about $3B.
Vodafone offered more than €2B or $2.5B to buy out Kabel Deutschland's minority shareholders and end a legal battle over the cable firm with Elliott and others.
South-Korean vehicle maker Hyundai Motor completed the acquisition of a GM factory in Russia's St. Petersburg.
Siemens Energy stated that it has no plans to sell Siemens Gamesa, the CEO told Handelsblatt, following prior reports that it had received approaches for the wind turbine business.
Cairn Energy announced that it won an arbitration case against the government of India on a tax dispute and was awarded damages of $1.2B plus interest and costs.
Tokyo Gas announced that it would invest nearly 20B yen or $193M in the UK retail energy firm Octopus Energy and that they would form a JV in Japan to supply power to retail customers.
Telecom Italia is set to keep Nokia as its supplier and diminish Huawei's share of equipment purchase for building 5G network.
Swedish real estate company SBB raised its stock and cash bid for Norway's Entra to 34.6B Norwegian crowns or $4.0B, exceeding an offer by Castellum.
IBM agreed to pay $24.25M to resolve investigations by the Federal Communications Commission on subsidies awarded to connect libraries and schools to broadband.
China's Ant Group has reduced borrowing limits for its Huabei young users, the company announced on Wednesday, following a suspension of the fintech titan's $37B IPO by the Chinese government last month.
The German airline Lufthansa agreed to secure pilot jobs until the end of March 2022 and cut costs by $548M, according to the pilots union VC's statement made on Wednesday.