Firms/companies
After Jaitly, Twitter's India MD Parminder Singh quits
03 Nov 2016
Hard on the heels of Twitter's India head Rishi Jaitly, on Monday, Parminder Singh, the micro-blogging site's managing director for India, South East Asia, Middle East, and North Africa, also quit
Cisco Systems introduces modular storage server
03 Nov 2016
Twitter India chief Rishi Jaitly quits, more heads may roll
02 Nov 2016
Jaitly, who helped popularise Twitter in India, would seem to be a casualty of the micro-blogging site’s global restructuring programme, as the company has failed to get new users and fallen behind Facebook, Google and Snapchat
Microsoft blames Russian hackers for attacking security flaw
02 Nov 2016
Microsoft Corp, which will release a patch on 8 November to protect Windows users from the newly discovered security flaw, has meanwhile slammed Google for making the vulnerabilities public before it could fix them
Toyota tames lithium-ion battery technology
02 Nov 2016
Brexit hikes Apple computer prices by up to £500 in UK
02 Nov 2016
The hike means prices in the UK are now more in line with the US after currency conversion and with the addition of UK VAT
GE to merge Baker Hughes to create a $30 bn oilfield services giant
31 Oct 2016
With $32 billion in combined revenues, and operations in over 120 countries, the “New” Baker Hughes will be the second-largest oilfield services provider
NTPC net down 18% at Rs2,496 cr in Q2
29 Oct 2016
Tata Group’s aviation hopes soar with Ratan Tata back at helm
29 Oct 2016
Media reports say Tata has increased its stake in AirAsia India over time to 49 per cent from 30 per cent for an undisclosed sum while approving infusion of $37 million in Vistara, its joint venture with Singapore Airlines
J&J loses third lawsuit over talcum powder link to ovarian cancer
29 Oct 2016
Johnson & Johnson, which is facing over 1,700 lawsuits in state and federal courts over ignoring studies linking its baby powder and Shower-to-Shower talc products to ovarian cancer, has been asked to pay a California woman more than $70 million in damages
Amazon launches Prime in China
29 Oct 2016
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COP28 explained: A closer look at COP28's climate change solutions
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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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