A new mobile game Clash Royale by the Finnish company Supercell (famous for its high-profile projects such as Clash of Clans, Boom Beach and Hay Day) brought about $ 110 million for the first month since launch. Supercell itself earned $ 80 million during this period; the remaining income was distributed among the app stores themselves. As the portal Newzoo notes, most of the purchases fell on...

Bright Farms company had been collecting necessary permits to open a "green" plantation in Washington during 10 months. Last year, however, they were forced to abandon the project. Previously, a similar project in Brooklyn, New York failed as well. Another company, FarmedHere, staged another farm on the roof of an abandoned business building near Chicago, in August decided to suspend operations...

Credit Suisse Group AG may be sued in Japan for leak of confidential information about the company. Regulators said that the bank’s Japanese division might have used improper systems for management public information about client companies. Securities and Exchange Surveillance Commission of Japan (SESC) recommended Japan Financial Services Agency (FSA), in charge of the supervision of banking...

In March, car sales in the EU have increased by 6% to 1.7 million units, almost reaching pre-crisis levels. The first quarter as a whole showed increase by 8.2%, to 3.8 million units. At the time, German automaker Volkswagen’s share on the European market in the first quarter fell to its lowest level in five years - to 23.3%. The fall has been lasting since September, after the suddenly erupted...

Leslie Benzies, former president of Rockstar North studio brought into the world a series of games Grand Theft Auto, is determined to seize $ 150 million from Take-Two Interactive and Rockstar. He is accusing his former colleagues in financial frauds, as a result of which he lost part of his income. So far, the story has been developing in the best traditions of the GTA. According to recent...

The world's largest private coal mining company Peabody Energy has declared itself bankrupt. The company said the decision to seek protection from creditors was made under pressure of unprecedented downturn in the global coal industry, a sharp decline in prices for metallurgical coal, the weakness of the Chinese economy. Currently, Peabody Energy’s total debt is $ 10.1 billion. Today, the US...

During a business visit to Iran, representatives of Boeing held the first after the sanctions regime’s change negotiations with the Iranian airlines about a possible sale of commercial airplanes and aviation services. According to the Iranian news agency IRNA, the negotiators discussed Boeing 777, 787 and 737 models among other things. Iran badly needs them since the biggest part of the country’s...

UK-based Daily Mail & General Trust, which owns the newspaper Daily Mail, showed up among the contenders for the purchase of assets of Yahoo! Inc., according to The Wall Street Journal, citing sources familiar with the situation. Daily Mail & General Trust is in talks with several private equity funds. The company seeks their support for application for the acquisition of the US Internet...

WhatsApp messenger’s management announced introduction of encryption for all kinds of information exchanged between its users, be it text or voice messages, photos, videos, files, group chats. This decision was taken after the FBI-Apple conflict flared in connection with the security services’ claim to get access to the locked iPhone of the terrorist. The incident caused a controversies and fears...