A consortium led by Transurban, Australia’s biggest toll road(收费公路） owner，is buying Queensland motorways. Transurban, Australian Super and a subsidiary of the Abu Dhabi Investment Company have paid more than seven billion dollars for the toll road network. Transurban will own a 62.5 per cent stake and will run the company on behalf of the other minority owners.

 

And both Apple and facebook posted strong first quarter profit results. Facebook’s revenue jumped by 72 per cent to just over 2.5 billion dollars. The company credits strong growth in its mobile advertising business for the rise and Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg says it’s been a great start to 2014. Meanwhile, Apple has seen its revenues jump by five per cent over the same period to 49.5 billion dollars. It sold close to 44 million I-phones in the first three months of the year and the company has also addressed calls to return more cash to investors. It’s approved a 32-billion-dollar share buyback program over the next year.