Firms/companies
Appeals court rules Uber drivers be considered workers with wage rights
11 Nov 2017
Uber may now be required to give its drivers rights such as the minimum wage and holiday pay, a move that the company said could fundamentally damage the way it operates
Axis Bank to raise Rs11,626 cr from Bain Capital, others
11 Nov 2017
Axis Bank, India’s third-largest private sector lender, is raising equity and equity-linked capital for Rs11,626 crore from investors that include entities affiliated to Bain Capital Private Equity and Life Insurance Corporation
Facebook's founder president Sean Parker says social network exploits vulnerability in human psychology
10 Nov 2017
Tata Motor’s Q2 net triples to Rs2,480 cr on zooming JLR sales
09 Nov 2017
Tata Motors’s Jaguar Land Rover business zoomed while its standalone domestic sales, (including exports) of commercial and passenger vehicles, recorded impressive growth - 28 per cent in MHCV, 35 per cent in LCV and 38 per cent in SCV and pick-ups
AT&T-Time Warner deal hits Trump wall
09 Nov 2017
With critics, who include US President Donald Trump, saying the merger would concentrate media power, regulators have reportedly proposed the sale of CNN to sweeten AT&T-Time Warner deal
HMSI launches Honda Grazia priced Rs57,897
09 Nov 2017
Arvind to demerge apparel, engineering businesses
09 Nov 2017
After having demerged its real estate business, $1.5-billion conglomerate Arvind Ltd is now carving out its branded apparel and engineering businesses from the parent company
Google affiliate Waymo to put first fully driver-less cars on road
08 Nov 2017
Waymo, emerging from the Google Self-Driving Car project, will early next year make robotic chauffeurs available in Phoenix, Arizona, as it seeks to hang on to its first-mover advantage in the autonomous car field
Featured articles
Lighter than air, yet very, very powerful
By Kiron Kasbekar | 03 Jan 2024
In March 2013 Chinese scientists pulled off a remarkable feat. They created the world’s lightest aerogel. Tipping the scales at a mere 0.16 milligrams per cubic centimeter – that’s a sixth of the weight of air!
COP28 explained: A closer look at COP28's climate change solutions
By Aniket Gupta | 27 Dec 2023
The 28th United Nations Climate Change Conference, also known as COP28, took place from 30th November 2023, to 13th December 2023, at Expo City in Dubai, United Arab Emirates.
What is a Ponzi scheme?
By Aniket Gupta | 06 Dec 2023
Ponzi schemes have long captivated the public imagination, drawing unsuspecting investors into a web of illusion and deception.
The Rise and Rise of HDFC Bank
03 Jul 2023
HDFC, which surged ahead of global majors like HSBC Holdings Plc and Citigroup Inc and left Indian peers like State Bank of India and ICICI Bank in market capitalisation, now ranks fourth largest among the world’s most valuable banks, after JPMorgan Chase & Co, Industrial and Commercial Bank of China Ltd and Bank of America Corp
India’s Millet Revolution To Enrich Global Food Basket
02 Apr 2023
Millets, a healthier and cheaper substitute to wheat and rice, are indigenous to many parts of the world, especially in the semiarid tropics of Asia and Africa, and offers a big scope for expanding production and consumption in the foodgrain deficient African continent
Market predator Hindenburg preys on Adani stock
06 Mar 2023
Almost a month after the damning report of short-seller Hindenburg Research on the Adani Group that claimed that the seven stocks within the group were about 85 per cent overvalued, one of the group's stocks, Adani Total Gas, closed at Rs835 on the BSE, down nearly 79 per cent from its 24 January level, almost close to reaching that valuation
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