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Jet market oracle Tinseth bows out with Boeing at crossroads

Years ago, when Randy Tinseth was still running Boeing’s sales account for United Airlines, the plane company’s designers pulled him aside. “They called me in and said we want to show United this interesting product and we can’t tell you about it until we get there,” Tinseth recalled. Out came the model of a futuristic, high-speed airliner called Sonic Cruiser. …read more […]

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Alibaba beats estimates on record Singles' Day sales

Alibaba primarily generates revenue by selling advertising and promotional services to third-party merchants that list products on its e-commerce sites, Taobao and Tmall. Alibaba affiliate Ant Financial’s MYBank unit has said it would offer 20 billion yuan ($2.86 billion) in loans to companies in China in the wake of the outbreak. Sales in the company’s core commerce business jumped 38% to 141.48 billion yuan ($20.26 billion) in the third quarter ended Dec. 31, while revenue at its cloud computing unit surged 62% to 10.72 billion yuan. …read more […]

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Tesla Plans $2 Billion Offering as Elon Musk Seizes on Stock Surge

(Bloomberg) — Tesla Inc. plans to offer about $2 billion of common stock as Elon Musk takes advantage of the electric-car maker’s surging shares.Assuming underwriters exercise their option to purchase additional securities, the offering could bring in about $2.3 billion in proceeds, Tesla said in a statement. Less than an hour earlier, the company forecast as much as $3.5 billion in capital expenditures this year, as Musk rushes to bring new models to market, ramp up its first overseas assembly plant and start building another.Tesla shares fell as much as 7.2% after announcing the offering and traded down 4.5% to …read more […]