Category: Automobile / Transport
Almost one-third of all new cars sold in Norway last year ran on batteries, reinforcing the Nordic country’s reputation as the world’s best market for electric vehicles. Oil-rich Norway aims to eliminate all emissions from new cars by 2025, and offers generous subsidies for buyers who opt to go electric. Other countries, including China, plan […]
Source: Bloomberg
Category: Financial / Investment
Norway’s unemployment rate was unchanged at 4 percent in October for a fourth month as more people sought jobs, providing backing to the central bank’s plan to raise interest rates again over the next months. Surveyed unemployment edged up to 114,000 from 113,000 in September, while the number of employed grew to 2.714 million from […]
Source: Bloomberg
Category: Food & Beverage
The Coca-Cola Company today announced that it has completed the acquisition of Costa Limited from Whitbread PLC. The $4.9 billion transaction follows approval from regulatory authorities in the European Union and China. This press release features multimedia. View the full release here:https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20190103005331/en/ The acquisition was first announced on Aug. 31, 2018. Costa, which has operations […]
Source: Coca-Cola
Category: Technology
– Året vil bli preget av nye steg innenfor blant annet kunstig intelligens, mener nettverksgiganten. Det er alltid populært å spå om fremtiden ved inngangen til et nytt år, og nå har også Cisco kommet med en oversikt over det de mener blir de seks viktigste og mest dominerende teknologitrendene i 2019. Ikke uventet står […]
Source: Digi.no
Category: Health
Legemiddelselskapet Bristol-Myers Squibb har inngått en avtale om å kjøpe opp bioteknologiselskapet Celgene i en avtale verdt rundt 74 milliarder dollar, tilsvarende 647 milliarder kroner. Det skriver Bristol-Myers i en børsmelding. Til sammenligning er Norges mest verdifulle selskap, Equinor, verdt 629 milliarder kroner torsdag ettermiddag. Avtalen innebærer at aksjonærene i Celgene får en aksje i […]
Source: E24