Microsoft Corp co-founders Bill Gates (Bill Gates) and Melinda French Gates announced the end of their 27-year marriage in a joint statement on May 3.The two believe that continuing their marriage will not allow each other to continue to improve, the statement said. But they will continue to work together at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation Foundation. Melinda worked for Microsoft Corp and married Bill in 1994. She has been an advocate of global health and women's equality in her co-management of the foundation.

Buffett (Warren Buffett) said that if he leaves office, Greg Abel may be his successor. Abel has long been seen as the most likely candidate to succeed Buffett.Abel has been in charge of Berkshire Hathaway Energy (Berkshire) operations since the departure of former number one successor David Sokol (David Sokol). For Abel, the age of less than 60 and amazing performance are his biggest advantages. Abel gradually built MidAmerican Energy into one of the largest energy suppliers in the United States and contributed about 10% of Berkshire's profits.

After the Samsung family completed the inheritance process, the ranking of the leaders of major South Korean conglomerates changed significantly.Calculated according to the closing price of the common shares held on April 30Lee Jae-yong, vice chairman of Samsung Electronics, ranked first after inheriting the stock estate of his father, Lee Kun-hee, with a market capitalization of 15.6167 trillion won.Lee Kun-hee's widow, Hong Luoxi, ranked second with a market capitalization of 11.4319 trillion. The third and fourth richest people in the stock market are Lee Fuzhen, president of Silla Hotel, daughter of Lee Kun-hee, and Lee Suk-hsien, chairman of Samsung Welfare Foundation, with a market capitalization of 7.78 trillion and 7.21 trillion won respectively.

Us mutual fund giant Fidelity Investments (Fidelity) has made big changes to the valuation of financial technology giant Ant Group.Fidelity Investment is one of the global elite investment institutions that bought a stake in Ant Group three years ago. According to the regulatory announcement, Fidelity invested in the Ant Group shares marked by several funds at the end of February, valuing the company at $144 billion. These prices have shrunk sharply compared with August last year, when Fidelity valued the price at $295 billion, indicating that Fidelity believes the investment will result in a loss.

Microsoft Corp (Microsoft) recently announced that he will slash the share of game sales in the Windows store, which shocked the entire PC game industry.Starting in August, Microsoft Corp's commission rate for PC game developers will be reduced from 30 per cent to 12 per cent, which is in line with the rate charged by Epic Games and puts more pressure on Valve, which still accounts for 30 per cent of game sales on Steam.

Intel Corp (Intel) will invest another $600m in Israel to expand its research and development. The company will also spend $10 billion to build a new chip factory, and the first phase of construction has already begun.Intel Corp is the largest employer in Israel, with 14000 employees and plans to hire another 1000.

Dell Technology Group (Dell Technologies) has struck a deal to sell its Boomi cloud business to private equity firms Francisco Partners and TPG.The move is part of a restructuring of the PC and data storage giant. The deal, which includes debt, values the cloud integration platform at $4 billion. Dell acquired Boomi in 2010. Boomi is a participant in the fast-growing integrated platform as a service (iPaaS) market, creating software that transfers data between applications, thus helping applications communicate with each other.

Verizon (Verizon Communications Inc) has reached an agreement to sell its media unit Verizon Communications Inc Media to private equity giant Apollo Global Management (Apollo Global Management) for $5 billion.The business to be sold will be named Yahoo, including once-dominant online brands such as AOL and Yahoo. Verizon will retain a 10 per cent stake in the business. The move comes at a time when Verizon is trying to divest its media assets while increasing its focus on wireless and 5G services. Last year, the company agreed to sell Huffington Post's online news service to BuzzFeed and sold its blogging platform Tumblr in 2019.

Us media giant Meredith is in advanced talks to sell its 17 local radio stations to Gray Television for more than $2.5 billion.The sale will allow Meredith to focus on its magazine division, which owns magazines such as Better Homes & Gardens and People. It will also help the media group strengthen its digital strategy.

Tesla, Inc. 's facility in Germany will not start production until the end of January 2022.Production at Tesla, Inc. 's new super factory on the outskirts of Berlin will be delayed for another six months, according to a new report. Tesla, Inc. had hoped the plant would start production on July 1, but licensing problems and plans to build a battery pack plant there caused delays. The factory will be Tesla, Inc. 's fourth super factory in the world and the first in Europe.

NIO Inc. announced that it delivered 7102 units in April.Year-on-year growth of 125.1%, subdivided into models, including NIO Inc. ES8 delivered 1523 units in April, NIO Inc. ES6 delivered 3163 units, NIO Inc. EC6 delivered 2416 units. Li Auto Inc. released the April delivery data.Ideal ONE delivers 5539 vehicles in AprilAn increase of 111.3% over April 2020. XPeng Inc. released the report card delivered in April. 2021In April, XPeng Inc. delivered a total of 5147 units.An increase of 285% over the same period last year. Among them, the delivery volume of P7 is 2995 and that of G3 is 2152.

According to sales data released by major South Korean car companies on the 3rd, Hyundai, Kia, South Korean General Motors, Renault Samsung and Ssangyong Motor sold 653139 vehicles worldwide in April, an increase of 69.5% over the same period last year.It decreased by 7.9% month-on-month. Specifically, Hyundai sold 345777 vehicles, a year-on-year increase of 106.2%. Kia sold 249734 vehicles, up 78 per cent from a year earlier. South Korean GM sold 21455 vehicles worldwide, down 25.4% from the same period last year. Renault Samsung sold 9344 vehicles, down 28.6% from a year earlier. Ssangyong has global sales of 4381 vehicles. A decrease of 35.7% compared with the same period last year.

A SpaceX capsule carrying four astronauts returned to Earth from the International Space Station and landed safely in the Gulf of Mexico early Sunday, the first time a NASA spacecraft has returned to Earth at night in decades.The Resilience Crew Dragon, built by Elon Musk's SpaceX, made a "soft" landing on the water at 2:56 local time on Sunday, shortly before being hoisted to a recycling ship near Panama City, Fla. This marks the end of the 168-day journey of the four astronauts in space and the completion of the first round-trip mission carried out by SpaceX.

Pfizer Inc (Pfizer) and BioNTech said they had submitted an application to expand the conditional listing license of its COVID-19 vaccine Comirnaty in the European Union to allow teenagers to use the vaccine.The two companies submitted applications to the European Drug Administration to extend the vaccine to teenagers between the ages of 12 and 15. The two companies have previously submitted similar emergency use authorization applications to the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and intend to apply for authorization amendments to other regulators around the world.

Shares in Vaccitech, the UK vaccine company, fell nearly 20 per cent on its first day of trading.The company jointly developed the COVID-19 vaccine with AstraZeneca PLC (AstraZeneca). The company is a research institute at University of Oxford. Vaccitech has attracted a lot of attention over the past year for its COVID-19 vaccine work. Its vaccine, sold by AstraZeneca PLC, is one of the few COVID-19 vaccines that have been launched quickly, compared with the usually slow pace of drug development.

Oatly, the world's largest producer of oatmeal milk, submitted its prospectus to the US Securities and Futures Commission.In September 2020, OATLY completed a $200m financing and took a ride on the road to "online celebrity" drinks. By 2020, Oatly had 53 per cent of total non-milk sales of alternative dairy products in its home market in Sweden, while in the UK, Germany and the US, it contributed 49 per cent, 43 per cent and 13 per cent of plant milk growth in 2020, respectively. In 2020, Oatly's revenue was $421.4 million, up 106.5% from $204 million in 2019, outpacing its 72.9% year-on-year increase in 2019.

McDonald's Corp (McDonald's) is working with UBER TECHNOLOGIES INC (Uber) to experiment with an option that allows customers to book food delivery with their app.Customers in the UK can choose the food delivery method in the My McDonald app, and couriers working through the UBER TECHNOLOGIES INC platform will complete the delivery.

Information from the HKEx shows that JD Logistics, Inc. has been heard by the HKEx and disclosed the post-hearing data set.JD Logistics, Inc. is also JD.com 's third IPO subsidiary of JD.com after JD.com and JD Health. According to the post-hearing data set, JD Logistics, Inc. 's revenue from 2018 to 2020 was 37.9 billion yuan, 49.8 billion yuan and 73.4 billion yuan respectively, of which revenue in 2020 increased by 47.2 percent compared with the same period last year.

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Berkshire Hathaway (Warren Buffett) reported a turnaround for the first quarter of 2021, underlining how the company's business is recovering from the novel coronavirus pandemic. Total revenue for the first quarter was $64.599 billion, compared with $61.265 billion in the same period last year, while net profit was $11.711 billion, compared with a loss of $49.746 billion in the same period last year. Excluding some investment performance, operating profit was $7.018 billion, up 20 per cent from a year earlier.