Apple announced today in Cupertino its financial results for the third fiscal quarter of 2009, which finished September 26. The obtained income was of 9,87 billion dollars and the profit of the period was of US$1,67 billion. The result overcame the analysts’ expectation, that waited for income of US$9,2 billion. This was the most lucrative [...]

In a new agreement, giant pharmaceutical multinationals GlaxoSmithKline Plc and Pfizer Inc., the two leading developers of AIDS drugs, set up a joint company to develop drugs against HIV. This new company will hold nearly a fifth of the market for treatments against the virus. Glaxo will initially have an 85 percent stake in the [...]