Firms/companies
Novartis to sell stake in Roche worth $13.8 bn
25 Apr 2016
Vodafone revives $2-2.5-bn India IPO plan: report
25 Apr 2016
Vodafone India, the second-largest mobile operator in the country after Bharti Airtel, has revived its listing plans with an initial public offer of shares worth $2 billion to $2.5 billion
Prices of older iPhone models hiked by 29% to save Apple SE
23 Apr 2016
After the revision, the older iPhone 6 model costs Rs40,000 against Rs31,000 earlier and 6S comes for Rs48,000 against Rs40,500, reports quoted source as saying
Shell designs city car that consumers a third less energy
23 Apr 2016
Anglo-Dutch oil giant Shell has developed a city concept car that consumes one-third lower energy than the average car at 107 miles per gallon
Apple hires former Tesla engineer
23 Apr 2016
Google's parent Alphabet’s Q1 profit fails to impress at $4.21 billion
23 Apr 2016
Google's holding company Alphabet said the costs of traffic acquisition, or what it pays to other web sites for ad space totaled $3.8 billion and accounted for 21 per cent of advertising revenues during the quarter
GE suffers net loss of $98 mn in 1Q
23 Apr 2016
BSNL offers 20 GB 3G data pack at just Rs50!
23 Apr 2016
RIL reports record Q4 net profit of Rs7,398 crore as margins spurt
22 Apr 2016
At $10.8 per barrel of crude, the company is making a profit of around 30 per cent on each barrel of crude it refines
Apple should pay more tax, says co-founder ‘Woz’
22 Apr 2016
Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak tells the BBC that all companies should pay 50 per cent tax – and that unlike Steve Jobs, he was never interested in making money
HC restrains Unicommerce from using Paytm data
22 Apr 2016
Mahindra first Indian firm to join green inititative “EP100’
22 Apr 2016
The announcement comes a day before Mahindra Group chairman Anand Mahindra represents the corporate world at the high-level signing ceremony of the historic Paris climate change agreement at the United Nations on Friday
UK govt could take 25% equity in Tata Steel UK: reports
21 Apr 2016
A spokeswoman for Prime Minister David Cameron said the government could take a minority stake in Tata Steel to support a new buyer deliver a long-term future for the business
Diet Coke, Coke Zero to regain splash of original red
21 Apr 2016
Coca-Cola has announced a shift in branding that focuses on redesigning the cans of Diet Coke, Coke Zero and the Stevia-sweetened Coke Life to contain more of the brand’s red colouring
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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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