Huaqian, a consumer credit brand of BABA's affiliated company Ant Group, announced on Wednesday that Huaqian has recently launched brand isolation work.Spending will become the exclusive credit brand of ant consumer finance, focusing on small and medium-sized consumer demand; consumer credit fully funded by banks and other financial institutions will be updated to a "credit purchase" type of service.In early November, another microfinance brand of Ant Group said that it was gradually promoting brand isolation.A number of licensed financial institutions, including Ant Consumer Finance Corporation, will work together to provide users with more convenient and high-quality micro-consumer credit services.

Italy's competition watchdog fined Apple Inc (Apple) and Amazon.Com Inc (Amazon.com) a total of more than $225 millionIt is said that the two colluded to exclude some legitimate distributors of Apple Inc and Beats products from Amazon.Com Inc's Italian market platform. Italy's Competition Authority (AGCM) said on Tuesday that it would fine Apple Inc and Amazon.Com Inc 134.5 million euros ($151.1 million) and 68.7 million euros ($77.2 million) respectively, and ordered the two US technology giants to allow all dealers of Apple Inc and Beats genuine products into amazon.it.

Samsung Electronics (Samsung Electronics) said Tuesday it plans to invest about $17 billion to build a semiconductor manufacturing plant in Taylor, Texas.. This is the latest investment plan for a large chip factory this year at a time when there is a global processor shortage. Samsung said the plant would be its largest investment in the US, producing high-end chips for devices such as smartphones and artificial intelligence applications. Construction of the plant is scheduled to begin next year, and chip production is expected to begin in the second half of 2024.

3D Investment Partners, the second largest shareholder in Toshiba, called on the Japanese conglomerate to oppose its plan to split itself into three companiesToshiba is advised to seek a buyer. The hedge fund owns more than 7 per cent of Toshiba. The fund became the first major shareholder to formally oppose the spin-off plan proposed by Toshiba earlier this month.

Elon Musk continued to sell Tesla, Inc. 's shares on TuesdayAnother 934000 shares were sold at a price of about $1.05 billion. Musk made the sale after exercising an option to buy 2.15 million shares.Since November 8, Musk has sold about 9.2 million shares, worth about $9.85 billion. Assuming Mr Musk intends to sell his 10 per cent stake, it is more than half done. Before he started selling, 10 per cent of his stake was equivalent to about 17 million shares, so he needed to sell about 7.9 million shares after Tuesday's sale.

Tesla, Inc. China said on Wednesday that the prices of its domestic MODEL 3 rear wheel drive ordinary version and MODEL Y rear wheel drive ordinary version in China have been raised.It is estimated that the range of price adjustment is 4752 yuan. According to Tesla, Inc. 's official website, the price of the ordinary version of MODEL 3 rear wheel drive has been adjusted to 255652 yuan, compared with 250900 yuan before; delivery is expected in the first quarter of 2022. The price of the ordinary version of MODEL Y rear wheel drive has been adjusted to 280752 yuan, compared with 276000 yuan, and the delivery date is also in the first quarter of 2022. Tesla, Inc. 's last price adjustment was on November 19th. In less than a week, the price of the Model 3 rear-wheel drive version has been adjusted again.

A consortium of about 70 Japanese companies will begin testing a digital currency to be launched as early as the second half of 2022Including three large banks The digital currency will be backed by bank deposits and use a common platform to speed up large transfers and settlement between companies and reduce costs. Members of the consortium include Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group, Mizuho Financial Group and Sumitomo Mitsui Financial Group. All three banks have launched their own digital payment systems, but they still lag behind technology companies such as PayPay, owned by Softbank Corp. Group.

Professional services firm Deloitte said on Tuesday that it would invest HK $1 billion over the next three years to promote business upgrading and transformation in Hong Kong and achieve sustainable growth.. This move is in line with Deloitte China's latest strategic plan Inspire HK, which aims to highlight the company's strategic focus, enhance cross-disciplinary service capabilities and promote talent development, so as to seize the development opportunities in Hong Kong and the Greater Bay area.

Royal Dutch Shell (Royal Dutch Shell) broke ground on a new project in Singapore on Tuesday to make a petroleum product from plastic waste that was supposed to be landfill.. The treated pyrolytic oil will be used to produce "recycled chemicals"-chemicals in the product, aimed at reuse or reuse, thereby reducing waste. Shell said that once the pyrolytic oil upgrade unit starts production in 2023, it will become the largest such device in Asia. The device will have an annual processing capacity of 50,000 tons, making it the company's first of its kind.

AstraZeneca PLC, chairman of AstraZeneca, the Anglo-Swedish pharmaceutical company, has urged the UK government to invest more in science.The drugmaker will invest 1 billion pounds to set up an R & D park in Cambridge, England. Leif Johansson, Lev Johansson, said it was important to learn from the epidemic, including making the health system more resilient, investing more in academic science and using South Korea as a potential role model.

Starbucks Corp China recently announced that the first Starbucks Corp shared space concept store in mainland China has opened in the Raffles Plaza office building in Shanghai.. This store is another innovation and exploration of "the third space" inspired by Starbucks Corp's coffee, which meets people's demand for multi-functional and flexible office and business social space. Here, customers can work or have meetings in their own private space, while enjoying the leisure and comfortable environment and unique coffee experience brought by Starbucks Corp. The whole store covers an area of about 200 square meters and has nearly 100 seats.

IKEA plans to phase out plastic packaging by 2028. Ikea will phase out the plastic packaging of goods, and plans to achieve plastic-free packaging in all new product lines by 2025 and phase out plastic packaging in existing product lines by 2028. Product packaging is a key component of Ikea's business model. To deal with plastic waste and pollution, Ikea has significantly reduced the amount of plastic used in packaging. Today, less than 10% of the packaging materials Ikea uses each year are plastic.

DHL Express recently launched the first hydrogen fuel long-distance freight truck pilot project within Deutsche Post DHL Group. Apple Inc is the first service customer of this test project.. This test is part of the H2-Share project of the Northwest European Regional Cooperation Plan. The purpose of the project is to verify the performance of hydrogen fuel technology used in heavy trucks in practical use, promote the application of low-carbon fuel heavy trucks in the field of logistics, and accumulate practical experience in Northwest Europe to lay the foundation for the future development of the industry. The test vehicle commutes between the city of Brada in the Netherlands and Brussels in Belgium.

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Huazhu Group Limited released his third-quarter earnings report for 2021. Quarterly operating income was 3.523 billion yuan, up 11.56% over the same period last year; net loss was 137 million yuan, compared with 212 million yuan in the same period last year; adjusted EBITDA (profit before interest, tax, depreciation and amortization) recorded 385 million yuan, an increase of 109.24% over the same period last year. In the third quarter, the turnover of Huazhu Group Limited Hotel was 12.2 billion yuan, an increase of 15.4% over the same period last year.

HP (HPQ) reports results for the fourth quarter and full year of fiscal 2021, which ended October 31, 2021. Fourth-quarter net revenue was $16.675 billion, compared with $15.258 billion in the same period last year, while net profit was $3.099 billion, compared with $668 million in the same period last year. By product, net revenue in the fourth quarter was $8.339 billion for notebooks, $2.51 billion for desktops and $4.879 billion for the printing group. HP's net revenue in fiscal 2021 was $63.5 billion, up 12.1% from $56.6 billion in fiscal 2020. Net profit for fiscal 2021 was $6.5 billion, up 129% from $2.8 billion in fiscal 2020.

Dell Technologies reports results for the third quarter of fiscal year 2022 ended October 29th, 2021. Total net revenue for the quarter was $28.394 billion, up 21% from $23.482 billion in the same period last year, and net profit was $3.888 billion, up 341% from $881 million in the same period last year. By business unit, Dell's revenue from customer solutions groups reached $16.546 billion in the third quarter, up 35% from a year earlier. Revenue from infrastructure solutions groups was $8.428 billion, up 5 per cent from a year earlier. The VMware division had revenue of $3.178 billion, up 10 per cent from a year earlier.

Retail clothing enterprise Gaipu Group (Gap Inc.) The results for the third quarter of 2021 to the end of October were released, with net sales of $3.943 billion during the period, basically the same as the previous year. Comparable sales increased by 5% compared with the same period in 2019 before the outbreak. Among them, the net sales of Gap, Old Navy, Banana Republic and Athleta reached 1.039 billion US dollars, 2.105 billion US dollars, 479 million US dollars and 320 million US dollars respectively. The Gap Group recorded a total net profit of US $272 million in the first three quarters and had 3459 stores in more than 40 countries at the end of the third quarter, including 2873 self-owned stores.