Bloomberg published the final version of its list of the world’s richest people for 2017. According to the Bloomberg Billionaires Index, Amazon founder Jeffrey Bezos, whose fortune is estimated at nearly $ 100 billion, became the richest man on Earth by the end of the year. Two more representatives of the US - Microsoft founder Bill Gates and media tycoon Warren Buffett - were in the top three....

The European Court equated Uber to taxi companies. "This decision will not change anything for us in most EU countries, in which we are already working in accordance with the laws on the transportation of passengers." This was Uber’s reaction to the Decision of the European Court in Luxembourg, adopted on December 20. The decision has actually equated this firm to taxi companies providing...

American aircraft corporation Boeing Co is in talks to acquire a stake in the Brazilian aircraft company Embraer SA, Reuters reports. Embraer's stock price jumped more than 20% in New York and São Paulo. The market capitalization of the company at the close of trading was $ 4.5 billion after the statement, in which there were no details about the possible transaction. Shares of Boeing decreased...

Carmaker Volkswagen has sold 3 million cars for the calendar year in China. This was a record indicator in the history of the world car market. The German concern Volkswagen has become the first automaker in history to sell 3 million cars in a single foreign country within a calendar year. As the press service of VW reported, the automaker reached a record high in the Chinese market. "We are...

Apple may discard its online music store iTunes Store. The complete closure of the service is supposedly scheduled for 2019. The reason for this is a sharp decline in downloads of songs and albums, as users are gradually moving to the streaming model of content consumption. Several newspapers, referring to anonymous sources, reported about Apple's imminent plans to close its iTunes Store music...

British oil company BP announced buying a 43% stake in Lightsource, a company that works in the solar energy sector, for $ 200 million, thus celebrating its return to the solar energy market. Two decades ago, BP intended to go beyond the oil market, planning to spend $ 8 billion over a decade on renewable energy technologies. The company was even going to connect its gas stations to solar energy...

Facebook will no longer register all its revenue at its headquarters in Ireland. The social network intends to transmit data on income from advertising to the authorities of those countries where this revenue is generated. For the time being, only the countries where the corporation has offices are concerned. The company plans to fully switch to the new financial reporting scheme by mid-2019. On...

The scandal, which erupted in France around Airbnb last week due to Payoneer credit cards, was resolved after a meeting of the company's representatives with Finance Minister Bruno Le Maire and the country's budget minister Gérald Darmanin. The management of the mobile service decided not to provoke the authorities and simply refuse to use these cards. On Monday evening, the Ministry of Economy...

Most teams at the World Cup in 2018 in Moscow will play in T-shirts with Adidas logo. However, the company’s main competitor Nike did not give up and won "on his field", more precisely, on the feet of athletes. Once again, Adidas won the World Championship, although with a minimal advantage: the company will equip 11 teams of 32, and 10 teams will wear Nike. However, Nike in a sense won back by...