Fuller, Smith & Turner's shares soared as much as 21% on Friday after the UK brewer and pub operator announced it had agreed on its beer business sale to the Japanese firm Asahi for $327M.
Microsoft's CEO Satya Nadella stated he would welcome the regulation on the facial recognition technology to help accelerate the marketplace in a right way.
Microsoft's Bing search engine became accessible again for some Chinese users late on Thursday, after it was blocked across the country on Wednesday.
Embraer SA stated it had signed the necessary documents, such as "master transaction agreement" on its cooperation with Boeing Co, calling shareholder meeting for February 26 to approve the deal.
The partial shutdown of the US government might hit the release of new car models in America, as it had stalled the required EPA certifications, carmakers stated on Friday.
Evergrande Health Industry Group is planning to acquire a majority stake worth $156M in the Chinese automobile battery maker, as it seeks to tie up together the firm's electric car production chain.
On Thursday, Mexico's America Movil announced about its purchasing of Telefonica's operations in El Salvador for $315M and in Guatemala for $333M.
The Baltic Dry Index reflecting change of freight tariffs for container and dry-bulk ships fell by 47% over the past six months, thus reflecting global economy's slowdown caused by trade war between the US and China.
The Ford Motor Co CEO Jim Hackett told employees on Thursday that last year results were hardly acceptable and this year the company must double its operating profit.
Crude oil prices increased by 77 cents or 1.5% on Friday morning, reaching $53.90 per barrel, amid fears that political crisis in Venezuela might cause disruption in oil production and export.
On Friday morning, the value of shares of Asian largest firm Tencent Holdings Ltd surged by 3% as Chinese regulator granted approval to 95 video games.
Subaru stated that it was found that some 3.4K employees who under-reported their hours were not paid overtime wages over the two-year period, an internal probe revealed.
China's soybean imports from the US dropped 99%t in December to 69.3K tons, customs data revealed, taking the full-year 2018 imports to the weakest level in ten years due to ongoing trade war.
On Thursday, OpenX, the privately-owned ad software company, stated it had signed a five-year deal worth over $110M with Alphabet's Google to exploit the tech giant's cloud computing services.
CVS Health's Aetna together with other health insurers have cooperated with IBM to establish a blockchain network, intending to cut costs in the industry of healthcare by using a technology that allows databases sharing across computer networks.
On Thursday, General Motors stated it would make an investment worth $22M into its Tennessee plant to manufacture fuel-efficient engines.
Ford might face a $1.0B worth bill, in case of Britain's withdrawal from the EU bloc with no deal, comprising the WTO tariffs and a weaker pound impact, according to a source familiar with the matter.
The US think tank called New America, Levi Strauss and Harvard University have tied up on a blockchain platform development to replace the factory safety and health outside auditors with a self-reporting system by employees.
New Fortress Energy is considering to attempt another way around to lunch an initial public offering amid partial shutdown of the US government, according to the Wall Street Journal.
South Africa's Absa has walked away from acquiring the Nigerian bank, its CEO Maria Ramos stated on Thursday, clearing up a question on how the lender would execute the aggressive growth strategy.
Poland announced on Thursday it had decided to eliminate China's Huawei from its plans on establishing 5G network in near future, following tech giant's employee arrest on spying suspicion.
Kuehne & Nagel International has left its mega-merger deal with Panalpina to Denmark's DSV with its approach for the company worth over $4.0B.
On Thursday, two telecoms companies 1&1 and United Internet have held a meeting over participation in the German 5G license auction, which could potentially result in Germany's fourth network operation creation.
Robert Bosch, the German auto supplier, announced on Thursday it bought out Daimler's stake in the joint venture called EM-Motive GmbH, which produced motors for hybrid and electric vehicles.