Two brewer companies, Anheuser-Busch,
based in
InBev's takeover bid totals $52 billion.
Anheuser accepted the offer of the Stella Artois beer maker. The newly
established company is going to be called Anheuser-Busch InBev. It is worth mentioning that the U.S.-based Anheuser-Busch is the producer of
On Monday, July
7, 2008, the Japanese electronics
corporation, Canon, stated that it
looks forward to build a new plant for producing digital cameras as the competition between domestic and foreign
companies intensifies.
In a
statement the company mentioned that it would invest 17.4 billion yen, which is
about 163 million dollars in the factory. It is worth mentioning that the
factory will be built in
Officials from All
Nippon Airways Co, mentioned that the company looks forward to acquire
whether five Airbus
A380s or other aircrafts meant for long-term routes. The
company's spokeswoman, Nana Kon, stated that
"We have several options including the A380, from which we plan to choose the optimal equipment," Kon said. Besides, ANA also considers the acquirement of such jets as Boeing 787 and 747.
The American
automobile manufacturer, Chrysler LLC, announced that it was able to achieve an
agreement with a Chinese manufacturer, Great
Wall Motor Co, to work on sharing technology, component parts, as well as
distribution. The agreement comes after the company was in search for foreign
partners, which would help Chrysler LLC drive its business, after sales in the 
The shares of General Motors registered a downfall to their lowest mark in over 53 years, raising concerns regarding the future of the car maker. A warning for General Motors came from the investment bank Merrill Lynch, which said that the company might become bankrupt and that it needs to raise funds.
The
company's sales fell down critically due the fact that consumers from the United
States decided to save on spending and high cost for the fuel, switching to
cars that are smaller and more cost-effective.
The company's shares hit $9.96, before they closed down 15 percent at $9.98 on
Wednesday, July 2. Such share price is the lowest since September 1954, the
period when the GM stock fell down to $9.92.
Mozilla Firefox was officially registered in the Guinness book of records as the most
often downloaded software in a 24-hour period. The final result was 8,002,530
downloads of the Firefox 3.0 Internet browser. The results were
registered in June.
"The enthusiasm and creativity of Firefox fans was key to making this happen," outlined the marketing director Paul Kim. The representative of Guinness World Records, Gareth Deaves, commented on the achievement of Firefox, calling it "an extremely impressive accomplishment." The official number was announced after the inspection of the logs from download servers, which ensured that duplicated and canceled downloads are not calculated.
On June 30, a
Today, June 11, 2008, the prices
for oil in Asian countries have
registered a record-high mark. It is the time when the American currency registers a little weakening against the European Euro. Despite this fact
traders consider that the oil market will show some instability, being guided
by supply concerns as well as the movement of currency.
The electronic trading at the New York Mercantile Exchange in
Federal
regulators are six months into a wide-ranging investigation of
The
Commodity Futures Trading Commission on Thursday said it started the probe in
December and took the unusual step of publicizing it "because of today's
unprecedented market conditions."
