It has been recently revealed that a court from Germany has said that Apple is trying to acquire one of the patents on data communication by the firm Motorola. It was further said that they are doing so with the increase in the sales of iPads and iPhones.

In the month of August, AT&T and T-Mobile refrained from the merger by the legislative bodies. However, the companies are hopeful that in the February’s antitrust trial, they will get the permission to go ahead with the merger.

It has been recently revealed that Nvidia Corp, the chip maker has posted a profit more than what was expected according to the analysts. It has been able to garner profit levels that are double of what it had posted last year.

The dairy group, Robert Wiseman has reported a 30% drop in drop in profits. The company has revealed that the main cause of decline in profits was high cost of raw material, which in turn led to an increase in price charged. The profits of the group were at £34m.

The England based, world’s largest mobile-phone company, Vodafone Group Plc disappointed its investors by claiming that its annual profit dropped by 7.8% on Tuesday. Moreover, the report revealed that Earnings after tax dropped to £7.97 billion in the 12 months to the end of March in comparison to 8.65 billion in 2009/2010.

RM, the education technology provider recorded decline in revenues by 15% during the first half of the current fiscal year as the sales slipped to £133m during the month of March while the sales during the same period for the previous year were £156.4m.

Full-year pretax profit of the British pork supplier, Cranswick Plc. surged 8% this year ended on March 31. The profits of the company rose from 43.8 million pounds last year to 47.1 million pounds. Following the rise in profit, the company raised its final dividend by 10%, from 18.7 pence to a total 27.5 pence.

On Tuesday, the world’s largest hotel group by rooms, InterContinental Hotels Group PLC (IHG) revealed that its first-quarter profit has increased by 28%. The hotel has almost 650,000 rooms in the Americas. InterContinental also owns hotel brands such as Crowne Plaza, Holiday Inn, Hotel Indigo and Centra.

The Forecast at the Aberdeen Asset Management has received gains in the first half. There has been an upward movement in the business and it has grown in the time. The report said that there was “strong progress on just about every operating metric across the business”.

Legal & General Group Plc (LGEN) has posted an increase of 12% to £442m from £388m in its global sales on May 4. The revenue of the U. K.’s fourth-biggest insurer has climbed in the first three months of last years.