Alphabet Inc-CL C's parent company Alphabet is expected to be the best performing technology giant in 2021.. Alphabet, which closed at $2958.13 on Monday, is up 68% this year and has a market capitalization of more than $1.95 trillion. With only a week left in 2021, it is almost impossible for several other tech giants to catch up. So far, Microsoft Corp and Tesla, Inc. have seen the closest increases, up 51 per cent so far this year. Apple Inc rose 23 per cent to 33 per cent, while Amazon.Com Inc was the worst performer, up just 5 per cent so far this year.

In the face of poaching such as Meta Platform of Yuan Universe, Apple Inc (Apple) paid a rare bonus of up to 180000 US dollars to retain talent.Competitors such as Meta (formerly Facebook Inc) have been trying to poach Apple Inc. These bonuses have shares with a four-year lock-up period, which gives employees a reason to stay at the company rather than move to Meta, Alphabet Inc-CL C, Amazon.Com Inc or other competitors. Meta has poached about 100 engineers from Apple Inc in recent months, although Apple Inc also employs some Meta employees.

The Oculus VR app of Facebook Inc's parent company Meta broke the milestone on Christmas Day and became the most popular app in Apple Inc's American app store.. As an app that people download to manage Oculus VR helmets, its topping shows that Meta's VR helmet has become the most popular technology gift at Christmas. According to Apple Inc App Store's ranking of free apps in the United States, Oculus topped the list of downloads on Christmas Day, beating long-term leading apps such as TikTok, YouTube, Snapchat and Instagram.

Sensor Tower store intelligence data showSince the beginning of this year, eight mobile games around the world have earned more than $1 billion from Apple Inc App Store and Alphabet Inc-CL C Play, a new record.. Among them, the top three revenue are all occupied by the mobile game works of Chinese game companies. As last year, Tencent's "PUBG" (China's localized version "Game for Peace") and "Arena of Valor" still occupy the top two of the world's most profitable mobile games this year. The cumulative revenue of both games this year exceeded $2.8 billion, up 9 per cent and 14.7 per cent respectively from a year earlier. The third-highest-paid mobile game is the "original god" of Miha, which has earned $1.8 billion this year.

The Japanese motor giant is stepping up its "digital transformation" (DX) business that uses digital technology to transform life and industry.Mitsubishi Electric opened an exhibition venue with the theme of DX in Tokyo in December, introducing 17 services such as the self-driving system of small electric vehicles and the monitoring system of facilities for the elderly using infrared sensors and artificial intelligence (AI). NEC, which is committed to DX, plans to double its digital talent to 10, 000 by 2025. Hitachi studios are also actively promoting investment in the field of DX. Konica Minolta set up a new company in October to specialize in DX for local governments.

China will abolish the restrictions on equity ratio of foreign-funded automobile companies in the field of passenger cars in 2022. China lifted foreign investment restrictions on new energy vehicles such as pure electric vehicles (EV) in 2018 and commercial vehicles in 2020. According to the original plan, the restrictions on the ratio of investment shares in all automobile sectors were abolished in four years. Previously, China has stipulated that for joint ventures that make cars in China, the maximum proportion of foreign investment is 50%, with the exception of new energy vehicles, the number of joint ventures is in principle no more than two. In April 2018, China announced the phasing out of restrictions on foreign equity ratios in the automotive sector.

Zhejiang Geely holding Group (Geely) high-end electric brand Zeekr will cooperate with Waymo to develop a new pure electric vehicle and deploy it in the Waymo One self-driving taxi fleet in the United States.. This brand new, specially built vehicle is being designed and developed at the Zeekr R & D plant at the Central European vehicle Technology Center (CEVT) in Gothenburg, Sweden. Under this partnership, Zeekr will design and develop future vehicles on the new proprietary open source travel architecture. Waymo will receive these vehicles in the United States and integrate its fully autopilot system Waymo Driver into the vehicle platform.

Chinese electric car maker Byd is forming a joint venture with technology startup Momenta to develop self-driving technology. The new joint venture, called Shenzhen Dipai Zhihang Technology Co., Ltd., will combine BYD's expertise in the automotive field with Momenta's experience in intelligent driving algorithms.

VinFast, owned by Vingroup, Vietnam's largest conglomerate, has announced that it will start selling the first Vietnamese-made pure electric vehicle (EV).Vingroup set foot in the automobile business in 2019 and realized the production of pure electric vehicles in two and a half years. The SUV on the market is priced at 690 million Vietnamese dong (RMB 194000) and has a maximum range of about 300km when fully charged. About 100 vehicles are planned to be delivered to customers in December and about 2000 in January 2022.

After the rectification of Ant Group, the registered capital of Chongqing Ant Consumer Finance Company will increase from 8 billion yuan to 30 billion yuan. This capital increase can undertake up to 400 billion yuan of self-credit business or up to 1.3 trillion yuan of joint loan business.After this capital increase, the shareholding of the "national team" has increased to 28%, and the participation of state-owned enterprises in the capital increase of Xiaojin Company is expected to become an important milestone in the rectification and reform process of Ant Group. At the same time, after a series of rectification measures, it will be difficult for Ant Group to make excess profits from the micro-loan business in the future.

Mubao, a serious illness mutual aid program launched by Alipay on October 16, 2018, issued a notice on December 28, saying that due to major changes in the mutual aid industry, in order to protect the rights and interests of members in the longer term, it will stop running at 24:00 on January 28th, 2022.. In September last year, the CBIC Anti-Africa Bureau published an article, pointing out that the hidden risks of the network mutual aid platform, naming Mutual Bao, Waterdrop Inc. Mutual Assistance and other platform members are large, which belong to unlicensed operation, and the risks of stakeholders can not be ignored. Since the beginning of this year, more than 10 platforms, including Meituan Mutual Assistance, Waterdrop Inc. Mutual Assistance and relaxed Mutual Assistance, have announced the closure one after another.Mutual Bao is the last large-scale network mutual aid program to announce the shutdown.。

Financial information companies S&P Global Inc. Global and IHS Markit said on Monday that they had reached an agreement to sell their two businesses. S&P Global Inc. plans to sell his Cusip Global Services business to FactSet Research Systems for $1.93 billion. Eason Warmai will sell its Base Chemicals business to News Corp for $295 million. S&P Global Inc. and Ericsson Warmai said at the end of last year that the former would buy the latter for about $44 billion in all-stock. Regulatory concerns about the competitive impact of the deal prompted the two companies to commit to divesting some of their businesses.

The Indian stock market has set a record IPO this year, with more than 110 companies listed in Mumbai.From online grocers to food distribution platforms to beauty startups, financing totaled nearly $18 billion. Indian investment banks have also had their best year ever, with commission income from IPO reaching nearly 26 billion rupees ($347 million) this year, more than four times the previous record before 2017.

Roche said the domestic novel coronavirus test kit developed by the company has been authorized for emergency use by the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and will be available in the United States from January 2022.. Roche said the kit could produce accurate results in just 20 minutes, including all known mutants of concern, including Omicron. According to FDA, the Roche kit can produce tens of millions of sets a month.

Indonesia has become the latest country to allow the Boeing Co 737 Max to return to its airspace, more than three years after the Lion Air crash in Indonesia.. Ethiopia also lifted its ban on the model. Indonesia will allow airlines to resume flights of 737 Max in its airspace after completing investigation procedures and improving aircraft systems, Indonesia's Ministry of Air Transport said in a statement on Tuesday. In October 2018, an Indonesian Lion Airlines 737 Max crashed, killing all 189 people on board. Five months later, an Ethiopian Airlines 737 Max crashed, killing 157 people. The two accidents led to the grounding of the Boeing 737 Max around the world.