Firms/companies
Infosys Q3 net profit up 7% at Rs3,708 cr
13 Jan 2017
Bangalore-based Infosys tightened its revenue growth forecast for the fiscal year to 8.4-8.8 per cent from 8-9 per cent amidst an increasing shift to sophisticated technological services
SpiceJet, now well out of red, to order 90-100 aircraft
13 Jan 2017
The order possibly includes a renegotiated order for 42 Boeing 737 Max planes it made in 2014, which at current listed price is expected to be worth over Rs55,000 crore
N Chandrasekaran appointed chairman of Tata Sons
12 Jan 2017
Chandrasekaran was selected from a list of high-profile names that included the head of PepsiCo Inc Indra Nooyi, the former head of Vodafone Group Arun Sarin and chairman of the Tata retail unit Trent Noel Tata
TCS Q3 net up 10.9% at Rs6,778 cr buoyed by digital revenues
12 Jan 2017
TCS' margins remained stable at 26 per cent while revenue grew 2 per cent on constant currency basis and volumes recorded 1 per cent rise quarter on quarter despite the third quarter weakness
Volkswagen agrees to $4.3 bn fine, harsher regulation to settle US charges
12 Jan 2017
The German carmaker also agreed to sweeping reforms, new audits and oversight by an independent monitor for the resolution of charges of installation of secret software in vehicles to allow them to emit up to 40 times legally allowable pollution
Jaitley formally launches Airtel’s payments bank
12 Jan 2017
Amazon withdraws Indian-flag doormat after Sushma ire
12 Jan 2017
While Amazon Canada removed the offensive doormat from its website, it continues selling similar doormats with US and British flags
IBM secured record 8,000 patents in 2016
11 Jan 2017
About 2,700 of IBM’s 2016 patents covered inventions related to artificial intelligence, cognitive computing, and cloud computing
WB cuts India’s growth outlook to 7% post demonetisation
11 Jan 2017
The Bank expects India to regain its momentum, with growth rising to 7.6 per cent in FY 2018 and strengthening to 7.8 per cent in FY 2019-20
Reliance Jio tops download charts with average 4G speed of 9.9 Mbps
11 Jan 2017
Reliance Jio 4G network's average download speeds reached 18.16 megabits per second in December 2016, its highest since launch of its commercial 4G services in September, while it was 6.7 per cent for Vodafone in the same month, as per Trai data
Flipkart in a flux, may opt to go public: report
11 Jan 2017
This is the natural course for a company wanting to establish firmly, and the company has investor support for it, say analysts
Marissa Mayer, others to quit Yahoo after it becomes ‘Altaba’
10 Jan 2017
Yahoo chief executive officer Marissa Mayer, co-founder David Filo and others plan to resign from the company's board when it completes its $4.8 billion sale to Verizon
JLR records 20% rise in car sales, Rolls Royce also up
09 Jan 2017
For Rolls-Royce, which is owned by Germany’s BMW, the record sales came from markets in the US, Japan, the UK and Germany as 90 per cent of the company's output is exported
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