Firms/companies
Snapdeal axes 600; co-founders Bahl, Bansal take 100% pay cut
23 Feb 2017
Snapdeal co-founders Kunal Bahl and Rohit Bansal admitted in an email to employees that they had started growing too fast and diversifying too much, and added they would now look for the right mix
Bharti Airtel to acquire Telenor's India operations
23 Feb 2017
The move comes as the market is awaiting response on a potential Vodafone-Idea merger after the new entrant Reliance Jio acquired 100 million users in just five months of its entry
Microsoft launches Skype Lite in India
22 Feb 2017
Tata Motors displays C-Cube concept car
22 Feb 2017
A sixth of all PSU bank loans stressed: RBI Dy governor
22 Feb 2017
For banks in the worst shape, the share of assets under stress has approached or exceeded 20 per cent, he said, adding that this estimate of stressed assets has doubled from 2013
Chandrasekaran chairs Tata Sons board meeting for the first time
21 Feb 2017
N Chandrasekaran plans to focus on leveraging the collective strength of the group and bring greater rigour to capital allocation so as to deliver superior returns to shareholders
Reliance Jio to end free data from 1 April
21 Feb 2017
The party is not yet over as Reliance Jio plans to extend data offers for existing customers at Rs99 per year for another year
Google, Microsoft agree to block piracy sites in UK-brokered deal
21 Feb 2017
For the first time, global tech giants Google and Microsoft have agreed to tighten up their search engines as part of a crackdown on piracy sites illegally streaming events and films
Infosys refutes allegations over Panaya purchase
21 Feb 2017
Toshiba seeking $8.8 bn for majority stake in chip business: report
21 Feb 2017
Debt-laden Toshiba Corp is trying to raise at least $8.8 billion from a majority stake sale in its flash memory business to save the group from the impact of a $6.3 billion write-down of its US nuclear business
TCS to buy back shares worth Rs16,000 crore
20 Feb 2017
The share buyback, when completed, will be India's biggest, surpassing Reliance Industries' 2012 share repurchase of Rs10,400 crore
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