A slew of trials – 40 to be precise, would have to be faced by chemical maker DuPont in the year starting April 2017. These plaintiffs involve people who claim that cancer had developed in them due to the exposure to a toxic chemical that is used by the company to make Teflon and which leaked from...

The US Justice Department has reached an agreement on cooperation with 80 Swiss banks that have agreed to pay a fine to avoid a judicial inquiry. As a result, the US government imposed on financial institutions in Switzerland more than $ 1.3 billion in fines. The US Justice Department said on...

Google evaded 227 million euros ($247.5 million) in taxes in Italy between 2009 and 2013, reports Reuters quoting sources from the Italian finance police.   Google has been at the centre of an increasingly angry debate across Europe over taxation of multinationals who park earnings in...

In what is the first time that data has been disclosed, Amazon.com Inc said that sales on Exclusives topped $50 million in less than a year since its launch, Exclusives is a platform for products not available anywhere else and includes more than 120 brands.   The sale revenue generated from...

As pressure builds on a company reeling from the auto industry's biggest recall, Takata Corp is preparing the ground for the exit of its chief executive reported Reuters.   The company has been tormented by a problem that has ballooned into a damaging safety scandal affecting nearly 50...

Apple Inc. has reported for the first quarter of its fiscal year and also presented outlook for the second quarter. Both reporting and forecast showed disappointing: the company recorded the lowest growth rate in the first quarter. As for the second quarter, the management even warns of probably...

In an exclusive report, the Alipay data reveals the spending habits of Chinese consumers for the year of 2015. Shangai’s people were most active as Chinese “online spenders” in the year of 2015. The “largest online payment platform” named Alipay released a review of the last year’s “spending...

As part of the sweeping changes that the company has been promising shareholders as it fends off activist investor Carl Icahn, American International Group Inc (AIG) said it would spin off its mortgage insurance unit and sell its broker-dealer network.   It would cut $1.6 billion of costs...

For the IV quarter of 2015, The American companies 3M and Procter & Gamble received a profit above market expectations. Johnson & Johnson reported an increase in profits as well, while DuPont, in contrast, recorded a loss. Procter & Gamble American Procter & Gamble Co. (P&G),...