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Google’s UK business reveals tax charge, jump in profits

  Bloomberg Google’s UK business is to pay 25 million pounds ($31.4 million) in UK corporation tax, according to its latest results, a year after the company was ordered to hand over 130 million pounds in back taxes to the government. The UK subsidiary of Alphabet Inc.’s Google turned a profit, before taxes, of 148.2 million pounds for the year ...

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Hon Hai posts profit rise after record iPhone sales

  Bloomberg Hon Hai Precision Industry Co.’s reported an unexpected rise in quarterly earnings after the main assembler of Apple Inc.’s devices rode record iPhone sales during the pivotal holiday shopping period. The world’s biggest contract manufacturer of electronics reported a 30 percent increase in net income to NT$68.8 billion ($2.3 billion) in the three months ended December, according to ...

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Huawei sales up 32%, profit little-changed

  AP Huawei Technology Ltd., the world’s biggest maker of telecoms equipment, said its 2016 sales rose 32 percent from a year earlier but profit increased by only 0.4 percent due to higher spending on research and marketing. Huawei said it earned 37 billion yuan ($5.4 billion) on total revenue that rose 32 percent to 521.6 billion yuan ($75.6 billion). ...

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