German carmaker Audi which is said to be the world's second leading luxury-car maker has registered record breaking sales in 2012. Audi said that it has been expecting to follow the pattern in the coming time as well.

Market has been abuzz with founder of world's No. 3 PC maker making a buyout offer for its company, which recently showed a dismal performance in profit with a 31% drop in fourth quarter. It has been stated that Michael Dell has apparently offered $13.65 a share, after the earnings report, but some major investors have refused the deal, worth $24.4 billion.

In a recent report, it has been claimed that Web service company AOL Inc. has come out with its report on fourth quarter of 2012. It has been revealed in the same that the revenue has managed to touch $600m (£380m), showing an increase of 4% from the last years. it has even crossed the mark of $574m as estimated by analysts.

As per a recent report, profits for GE or General Electric for the fourth quarter have this time crossed its expectations. While a quarter earlier, the company received orders making profit of $203 billion, the same this quarter came with a heavy log jam and the profit touched $210 billion.

The third-quarterly earnings of Graphics chip giant Nvidia have been reported to be more than that expected by analysts as a result of the increase in market shares and due to the chip designed for the tablet computers.

Recent reports have subjected that there Life and pensions firm Aegon UK managed to show up significant earnings for the quarterly session. One of the reasons enlisted is the cost savings. Original pre-tax income saw an increase from the previous year's figures of £8m in the third quarter to £20m administered during this year.

Royal Dutch Shell, the energy giant, has recently reported that it had to face volatile energy markets this year and the same has though made it realize a 2% increase in its Q3 net profit. The same has made it fall by some 6% in terms of adjusted net profit as compared to the figures noted at this point of time last year.

Facebook seems to have collected enough revenues via its mobile customer service, with mobile customers increasing at a fast pace. Recent reports suggest that there was a 61% rise during the third quarter accounting for a total of 604 million mobile customers in a month.

It is being expected that the fourth quarter reports regarding the earnings of Apple will depend upon the sales of iPhone 5 and future of its iPad mini.

On Tuesday, social network Facebook reported its third-quarter earnings, revealing that the company suffered a quarterly net loss of $59 million; though the mobile revenue gains posted by the company beat the analysts' estimates.