Firms/companies
Airtel ties up with S Korea’s SK Telecom to develop new technology
13 Sep 2017
The two firms will work together to build advanced telecom networks and in developing 5G technology, Network Functions Virtualisation, Software-defined Networking and Internet of Things
BSNL to hive off tower assets as separate business
13 Sep 2017
BSNL owns 66,000 mobile towers, which is roughly 15 per cent of the 4,42,000 mobile towers in the country
Vodafone Group in pact software with VMware
13 Sep 2017
Tata Steel exits British Steel Pension scheme; decks cleared for ThyssenKrupp merger
12 Sep 2017
Tata Steel has made a one-time payment of £550 million to unbundle itself from the British Steel Pension scheme, a move that would clear the path for merger of its European steel business with Thyssenkrupp
IndusInd Bank, Bharat Financial explore merger
12 Sep 2017
Infosys to add 12,000 engineers in next 2 years; hire more in US, Europe
11 Sep 2017
Infosys says it plans to hire around 6,000 engineers annually over the next 1-2 years even as the visa issues necessitated increased local hiring in the US and Europe
Allergan transfers drug patent to Mohawk tribe to sidestep lawsuits
09 Sep 2017
The surprise move by Allergan to transfer the patents on a best-selling eye drug to the Saint Regis Mohawk Tribe could open up a new way for drug makers to head off challenges to patents
Amazon unveils largest Indian fulfilment centre at Hyderabad
08 Sep 2017
The three-storey facility has 51 loading and unloading docks that can handle around 1,000 trucks per day , 69 km of fire hydrant piping, more than 500 km of five types of cables, over 15,000 fire sprinklers and a 1.6-km long conveyor belt to move packages
Apple rejects Trai anti-spam app, says won’t part with user data
08 Sep 2017
The Indian government is now in a piquant situation where a private company, and that too a large foreign one, claims to be the sole custodian of the privacy and personal data of Indian users
UK’s JLR to go all-electric starting 2020
07 Sep 2017
Thousands of pro-Trump ads linked to Russian accounts: Facebook
07 Sep 2017
Facebook has revealed that thousands of ads posted on the site over the past two years, tending to favour Donald Trump’s presidential campaign, were linked to fake accounts based in Russia
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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
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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
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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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