Summary of dpa-AFX: COMPANIES of 12/30/2020 at 3:15 pm | message



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SUMMARY 2: UK approves Astrazeneca corona vaccine

OXFORD / LONDON – Great Britain approved the corona vaccine from the University of Oxford and the pharmaceutical company AstraZeneca. The British Medicines Regulatory Authority (MHRA) has granted emergency approval of the national vaccine, the British Health Ministry announced on Wednesday. It is the first approval of the vaccine in the world. Vaccinations should start next week.

SUMMARY: More than 25,000 individual diesel lawsuits against VW ended in settlement

WOLFSBURG / KARLSRUHE – Settlement payments by the VW group (Volkswagen (VW) vz) to around 55,000 individual diesel plaintiffs were settled in nearly half of all cases by year-end. As the German press agency learned about the company, “a total of more than 25,000” agreements have been concluded in the separate procedures outside of the large sample comparison. In these cases, the payment has already finished or is in progress.

ROUNDUP / ‘HB’: Lamba, a member of the Linde board, is the successor to Chief Angel

DSSELDORF – According to a press report, board member Sanjiv Lamba is the successor to current CEO Steve Angel at the world’s largest gas company, Linde. If all goes well, Lamba could assume the executive presidency in about a year, wrote the “Handelsblatt” (HB / Wednesday), citing people familiar with the matter.

Teamviewer Boss – Effort Against Hacker Attacks Increases Massively

GPPINGEN – According to software provider TeamViewer, the fight against hackers is becoming more complex and difficult. “Cyber ​​attacks across the industry have been on the rise for years, and hackers are getting more and more professional,” CEO Oliver Steil said in an interview with the “Stuttgarter Zeitung” (Wednesday). “It is an ongoing race and it is clear that there is no perfect protection.” You need to be extremely vigilant, work closely in the industry, and invest heavily in qualified employees and outside help.

Uniper wants to operate the Datteln coal-fired power plant until 2038

DATTELN – According to a report from the “Rheinische Post” (Wednesday), the Datteln coal-fired power plant will be shut down in 2038, thus ending the era of coal-fired power plants in Germany. “Datteln will be the last coal-fired power plant in Germany to go offline. We want to let Datteln run until 2038,” Andreas Schierenbeck, head of Uniper, told the newspaper. “That makes sense in all respects, because Datteln 4 saves a lot of CO2 and older and dirtier power plants can be shut down early instead.” Germany wants to phase out coal-fired power generation by 2038 at the latest.

American Airlines returns to Boeing 737 Max for passenger flights

MIAMI / NEW YORK – Almost two years after the Boeing 737 Max was banned from flying, this type of aircraft has returned to normal with passengers in the US American Airlines first used a 737 Max on Tuesday in the route from Miami to New York. According to information on the LaGuardia Airport online arrivals board, flight AA718 landed promptly at 1:12 pm local time. The machine should later fly back to Miami, as a company spokeswoman said at the request of dpa.

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Additional reports

-The crisis of the Crown brings a strong increase in sales to the Stuttgart stock exchange

– Controllers don’t even record half of flight movements

-EU authority calls for stricter control of new crown variants

-REDEDOR: Constitutional judges allow strict rules for slaughterhouses

-ZDF-Intendant: Live formats become more important in the times of Corona

– The car expert asks for a fixed date to turn off the combustion engine.

-The search for Covid drugs so far is ‘disappointing’

-European ban on the export of plastic waste in developing countries as of January 1

– Insider trading on Gerry Weber shares: millions of dollars outstanding

Customer note:

ROUNDING – You are reading a summary in the company overview. There are several reports on this topic on the dpa-AFX news service.

/ jha

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