Firms/companies
Exxon Mobil’s Canadian unit Imperial Oil to sell remaining Esso fuel stations for $2.1 bn
09 Mar 2016
Idea seeks to buy Providence stake in Aditya Birla Telecom
09 Mar 2016
Idea Cellular Idea Cellular is reported to have offered Rs4,000 crore to buy out Providence's 16-per cent stake in its subsidiary Aditya Birla Telecom, offering more than 40 per cent premium on the US private equity firm's investment made in 2009
Apple’s Mac OS targeted by ‘ransomware’
08 Mar 2016
Verizon fined $1.35 mn for supercookie
08 Mar 2016
Dead may eventually outnumber the living on Facebook
08 Mar 2016
According to researchers, Facebook will become the world’s biggest virtual graveyard by the end of this century as there will be more profiles of dead people than of living users
Google hires 4chan's Chris Poole
08 Mar 2016
Microsoft considered buying Slack for $8 bn
07 Mar 2016
BMW looks to AI to secure future
07 Mar 2016
Tata Marcopolo lifts lockout at Dharwad facility
07 Mar 2016
The plant supplies fully-built buses for intra-city and inter-city transportation, which include 16 to 54-seater standard and 18 to 45-seater luxury and low-floor city buses
Hackers attack Mac computers with ransomeware
07 Mar 2016
Monsanto threatens pull-out over proposed royalty fee cut on GM seeds
05 Mar 2016
While Mahyco Monsanto Biotech (India), argues that the government has no role in determining trade fee, the government panel was clear in its view that the crop cost for cotton farmers has gone up after MMB substantially raised fees for sub-licensing BT seed technology
Featured articles
Lighter than air, yet very, very powerful
By Kiron Kasbekar | 03 Jan 2024
In March 2013 Chinese scientists pulled off a remarkable feat. They created the world’s lightest aerogel. Tipping the scales at a mere 0.16 milligrams per cubic centimeter – that’s a sixth of the weight of air!
COP28 explained: A closer look at COP28's climate change solutions
By Aniket Gupta | 27 Dec 2023
The 28th United Nations Climate Change Conference, also known as COP28, took place from 30th November 2023, to 13th December 2023, at Expo City in Dubai, United Arab Emirates.
What is a Ponzi scheme?
By Aniket Gupta | 06 Dec 2023
Ponzi schemes have long captivated the public imagination, drawing unsuspecting investors into a web of illusion and deception.
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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