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IBM breakthrough paves the way for carbon nanotube electronics
05 Oct 2015
IBM Research has announced a major engineering breakthrough that could accelerate carbon nanotubes replacing silicon transistors to power future computing technologies
Google all set to launch India Street View
03 Oct 2015
Volkswagen sold new cars fitted with cheating devices till this week
03 Oct 2015
Volkswagen continued to sell cars in the UK fitted with emissions-cheating software till Wednesday even after the scandal hit the headlines
Irdai tightens norms for mis-selling insurance
03 Oct 2015
Teva to buy Mexican drugmaker Rimsa for $2.3 bn
03 Oct 2015
With this acquisition, Teva will become a leading pharmaceutical company in Mexico, the second-largest market in Latin America and one of the top five emerging markets globally
Microsoft launches Skype Translator
03 Oct 2015
GM to introduce fleet of autonomous cars
03 Oct 2015
Airtel gets ASCI notice over ‘misleading’ ads
01 Oct 2015
Google.com sold for Rs790 … oops! Not really
01 Oct 2015
The Gujarati entrepreneurial spirit managed to bag Sanmay Ved the Google.com domain name – but alas, the euphoria lasted only for a minute
Microsoft, Google end world war over patents, call truce in US, Germany
01 Oct 2015
In a sign of cooling of hostilities globally, the two tech giants sign a truce to end dogfights over a variety of technologies
Mobiles make Twitter users more egocentric than while tweeting from PCs: study
01 Oct 2015
Researchers have found that tweets sent from smartphones are 25 per cent more negative than when sent from computers
Infosys partners GE to develop new industrial internet solutions
01 Oct 2015
The new Internet of Things solutions will help manufacturers derive practical benefits from massive amounts of data generated through connected devices in the industrial enterprise
Tesla unveils SUV ModelX
30 Sep 2015
People who want to buy the car would have to pay $5,000 to reserve one for delivery some time well into next year
Reliance Commmunictions close to merging SSTL’s India ops
30 Sep 2015
SSTL, which offers CDMA telecom services under the brand MTS, is a joint venture between Sistema of Russia and Shyam Group of India
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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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