AT&T Inc said on Tuesday that Warner Media (WarnerMedia) will be spun off for $43 billion, while Warner Media and Discovery will formally complete the merger in the second quarter of this year.. AT&T Inc's shareholders will own 71 per cent of the newly formed Warner Bros. Discovery. The newly formed Warner Brothers Discovery will catch up with Netflix Inc, a larger streaming video competitor. Warner Media's HBO Max grew even faster in the United States in the fourth quarter of last year, with about 74 million subscribers at the end of last year.

Alphabet, Alphabet Inc-CL C's parent company, announced on Tuesday that its board of directors had approved the 1:20 split of Class A, B and C common shares of the company.. If the split is approved, shareholders who hold shares at the close of trading on July 1, 2022 will receive a split of 19 shares at the close of trading on July 15, 2022.

NEC and NTT in Japan are promoting the development of optical fibers with four times the current transmission capacity.. In the autumn of 2021, the submarine fiber optic cable jointly developed by NEC and Sumitomo Electric Industries can accommodate 32 new-generation optical fibers called "Multi-core Optical Fiber (multicore)". In the past, the optical fiber is a single core, there is only one optical signal channel, but the new generation of optical fiber developed by NEC and others has four cores. The thickness of the new generation of optical fiber is only 0.125 mm, which is similar to that of hair. In the past, due to interference with the light signal leaked from the side channel, the accurate transmission could not be carried out. Now the leakage of optical signal can be prevented by improving the glass material used around the channel.

Globalwafers's acquisition of German wafer maker Siltronic failed to be approved by German regulators in time before the January 31 transaction deadline.. The Taiwanese company will pay a termination fee of 50 million euros to Siltronic in accordance with the previous agreement. Global wafer said it was "very sorry" about the result and said it would continue to work closely with European customers.

BlackBerry announced that it will sell its traditional patents mainly related to mobile devices, text messages and wireless networks to a special purpose company for $600 million.. BlackBerry said the deal with Catapult IP Innovations would not affect customers' use of its products or services. Just a few weeks ago, BlackBerry stopped its business smartphone service.

Japan's Panasonic (Panasonic) announced that it will invest 100 billion yen over five years to expand the production, research and development of air-conditioning business.. Panasonic will expand its production of air conditioners equipped with self-developed disinfection technologies and energy-saving models, a market that has received increasing attention since the new crown epidemic. Panasonic plans to achieve sales of Y1,000bn in fiscal year 2025, up 40 per cent from fiscal year 2009. Panasonic will build new R & D experimental buildings at its plants in Malaysia and Shiga prefecture, and expand the production capacity of air-conditioning equipment manufacturing plants in Vietnam and China.

British luxury carmaker Aston Martin has launched a new non-electric SUV called DBX707It will be the greatest ultra-luxury, high-performance SUV in the world today. The new car, with a 4.0T twin-turbocharged V8 engine, starts at $232000 and will be delivered in the second quarter of 2022. The company plans to produce only 5000 DBX707 vehicles a year, with the US and China expected to have the strongest sales, followed by Europe.

XPeng Inc.It is announced that 12922 units will be delivered in January 2022, an increase of 115% over the same period last year.Li Auto Inc.It is announced that 12268 ideal ONE will be delivered in January 2022, an increase of 128.1% over January 2021.Nashi carIt is announced that 11009 vehicles will be delivered in January 2022, an increase of 402% over the same period last year.NIO Inc.It was announced that a total of 9652 electric vehicles were delivered in January 2022, an increase of 33.6% over the same period last year.Zero running carIt was announced that 8085 vehicles were delivered in January 2022, an increase of 43.4% over the same period last year.

Ford Motor plans to accelerate the deployment of its electric vehicles, which could include increasing investment in electric vehicles by up to $20 billion. The reform, led by Doug Field, a former executive of Apple Inc and Tesla, Inc., calls for Ford to spend an extra $10 billion to $20 billion over the next five to 10 years and to shift global factories from gasoline-powered to electric cars. The potential investment will build on Ford's announced plans to invest $30 billion in plus-size electric vehicles by 2025.

Germany's Mercedes-Benz (Mercedes-Benz) will contribute money to Huineng Technology, a Taiwanese company that develops a new generation of battery "all-solid-state battery".. The two sides will jointly develop all-solid-state batteries for pure electric vehicles (EV), and test vehicles equipped with all-solid-state batteries developed by Huineng Technology will be completed within a few years. The energy density of all-solid-state battery is higher than that of lithium-ion battery used in pure electric vehicles, which can extend the driving distance and shorten the charging time. Huineng Technology has provided about 8000 samples of all-solid-state batteries to automakers. It is planned to set up a mass production plant on the outskirts of Taipei this year.

Tianqi Lithium Industry (Tianqi Lithium) plans to issue shares in Hong Kong to raise funds to expand lithium capacity and reduce the debt burden.Tianqi Lithium plans to raise money to repay debt and expand projects in Western Australia and Sichuan, China. Tianqi Lithium Industry mines lithium ores and produces lithium concentrates and lithium derivatives, including battery-grade lithium carbonate for automotive batteries.

Qatar Airlines (Qatar Airways) has agreed to buy up to 50 Boeing Co's (Boeing) new 777X freightersThe company will launch the aircraft at a time when air cargo is booming. The agreement is a boost to Boeing Co's latest large aircraft, which faces delays and reduced customer orders for passenger aircraft at a time when airlines are more widely switching to small jets for long-distance direct flight routes. and regulatory hurdles. According to the price tag of the 777X, the 777X freighter deal is worth more than $20 billion. The engine of the 777X freighter is made by General Electric Co (GE).

In the first few weeks of this year, US drugmakers raised the list prices of cancer, diabetes and other prescription drugs by an average of 6.6%.. They insisted on raising prices at a more moderate pace as members of Congress scrutinized pricing practices. As of January 20, a total of about 150 drugmakers in the United States had raised the prices of 866 products. Drugmakers often raise prices in the first few weeks of the new year. In response to political pressure and the threat of congressional regulation to control pricing power, many drugmakers have promised to ease price increases. These pharmaceutical companies raised their prices by double digits a few years ago.

Inflation is hitting the long-standing refuge of price-sensitive consumers: the value menu of restaurants. Chains such as Burger King, Denny's and Domino's Pizza are reducing the number or portions of discounted items on their menus to boost profit margins. Some chains hope that reducing the number of discounted and discounted items on the menu may reduce consumer resentment compared with direct price increases. McDonald's Corp (McDonald's) and franchisees said the company began allowing franchisees to raise the price of soda drinks earlier this year.

Seven & I Holdings, the parent company of 7-Eleven convenience stores, has begun to discuss the sale of its underperforming department store Sogo Xiwu.. Department stores have been suppressed by online shopping and other ways, as the COVID-19 epidemic has been further hit and the situation is difficult. The sale of the discussion once again highlights the grim situation of the department store industry. Qihe Iraq's domestic convenience store business has peaked, believing that underperforming department stores are hopeless and will focus on overseas convenience store businesses such as Asia, which are optimistic about the future. Sogo Xiwu has 10 stores across the country and is expected to lose 4.5 billion yen in fiscal year 2021.

The verification experiment of non-contact self-checkout will be carried out on July 11 in Japan from February.. The cashier screen is projected into the air, and consumers can operate it with their fingers like a normal touch panel. Compared with the ordinary cashier, it can compress the setting space and support the non-contact demand in the case of the epidemic. Six 7-11 stores in Tokyo will carry out experiments. It is specially used for cashless settlement of transportation cards, scanning codes and credit cards. Compared with the existing cashier, the space can be reduced by about 30%, and the saved space can be used to put goods.

Financial report information

NOMURA, Japan's largest brokerage, reported that the trading boom had waned during the epidemic. Net profit for the fiscal third quarter ended December fell 38.7% to 60.3 billion yen from 98.4 billion yen a year earlier. But Nomura's investment banking business continued to perform strongly, partly offsetting a decline in transaction revenues, thanks to a global wave of mergers and acquisitions.

UBS Group reported a net profit of $1.35 billion in the fourth quarter of 2021, down from $1.64 billion a year earlier. UBS's $740 million provision for the French tax case dragged down fourth-quarter net profit. UBS's net profit in 2021 was $7.486 billion.

Exxon Mobil Corp (Exxon Mobil) announces financial results for the fourth quarter of 2021. Quarterly revenue was $84.965 billion, up 82.6% from $46.54 billion in the same period last year, while net profit was $8.87 billion, compared with a net loss of $20.07 billion in the same period last year.

Payment service provider PayPal Holdings Inc announces results for the fourth quarter and full year of 2021. Fourth-quarter net revenue was $6.918 billion, up 13 per cent from $6.116 billion a year earlier, while net profit was $801 million, down 49 per cent from $1.567 billion a year earlier. Full-year net revenue was $25.371 billion, up 18% from $21.454 billion in fiscal 2020, while net profit was $4.169 billion, down from $4.202 billion in fiscal 2020.

EA reports results for the third quarter of fiscal 2022. Total net revenue for the quarter was $1.789 billion, compared with $1.673 billion a year earlier, while net profit was $66 million, down 69 per cent from $211 million a year earlier.

AMD reports results for the fourth quarter of fiscal year 2021. Quarterly revenue was $4.826 billion, up 49 per cent from $3.244 billion in the same period last year and 12 per cent compared with $4.313 billion in the previous quarter; net profit was $974 million, down 45 per cent from $1.781 billion in the same period last year and up 6 per cent from $923 million in the previous quarter.

Alphabet, the parent company of Alphabet Inc-CL C, released its fourth quarter and full-year results of 2021. Total quarterly revenue was $75.325 billion, up 32 per cent from $56.898 billion a year earlier, while quarterly net profit was $20.642 billion, up 36 per cent from $15.227 billion a year earlier. Revenue from YouTube's advertising business is $8.633 billion, Alphabet Inc-CL C's cloud business is $5.541 billion, and "Other Bets" is $181 million. Total revenue for the year was $257.637 billion, up 41 per cent from $182.527 billion the previous year. Net profit was $76.033 billion, up 89 per cent from $40.269 billion in the same period last year.

Starbucks Corp (Starbucks) reported mixed results for the first quarter of fiscal 2022 as rising costs weighed on profits, but demand from US coffee stores was strong during the holiday season. Revenue rose 19% to $8.05 billion in the first quarter, while net profit was $815.9 million, up from $622.2 million in the same period last year. Global same-store sales increased by 13% in the quarter. Despite personnel problems, same-store sales in the US rose 18 per cent year-on-year and 12 per cent in two years. Outside the US, Starbucks Corp's demand for coffee weakened and international same-store sales fell 3 per cent. In China, Starbucks Corp's second-largest market, same-store sales fell 14% in the quarter.