Firms/companies
SBI plans biggest-ever share sale to garner up to Rs15,000 cr
05 Mar 2015
The fund would be raised either through follow-on public issue, qualified institutional placement (QIP), rights issue, private placement, global depository receipts, American depository receipts or combination of these
India furious as BBC airs gang-rape documentary in UK
05 Mar 2015
The home ministry is believed to be planning legal action against British film-maker Leslee Udwin for allegedly violating stipulated permission conditions
Reliance Infra to take control of Pipavav Defence in Rs819-cr deal
04 Mar 2015
Reliance Infrastructure said it would make an open offer to public shareholders of the private sector shipyard, at Rs66 per share, in order to take its stake to 26-per cent
Apple car: iPhone maker seeks to settle lawsuit
04 Mar 2015
Indian firm iVoice challenges Apple’s iPhone brandname
04 Mar 2015
In a case that bears all the marks of a long-drawn legal battle, the Indian handset maker says the iPhone brand impinges on its older ‘iFon’ label
Volvo divests 4.7% stake in Eicher Motors
04 Mar 2015
Experts point to Apple Pay’s vulnerabilities
04 Mar 2015
Bank of China takes control of Sahara’s Grosvenor House to recover loans
03 Mar 2015
Bank of China has appointed Deloitte to administer Sahara properties after "it defaulted on debts tied to the hotel", according to a report in the Daily Telegraph
Hewlett-Packard acquires Aruba Networks for $2.7 bn plus debt
03 Mar 2015
This is HP's first major acquisition since its disastrous 2011 acquisition of UK software company, Autonomy
Bharti Airtel enters into agreement with China Mobile
03 Mar 2015
The move brings together the largest mobile operators from the world's two largest mobile markets
TRAI wants Vodafone to replace ‘111’ as helpline number
03 Mar 2015
The Telecom Regulatory Authority of India on Monday directed Vodafone to stop using ‘111’ for offering customer care services, as it violates the national numbering plan. It has also demanded a compliance report by 10 March.
ISIS gives Twitter the jitters with death ‘fatwah’
03 Mar 2015
Frustrated by the social media site consistently blocking its accounts, the vicious militant group ISIS has put a post on the less-popular site Buzzfeed showing Twitter chief Jack Dorsey’s face in the cross-hairs of a gun
Sun Pharma to buy Glaxo’s Australian opiates business
03 Mar 2015
The deal comes as Sun wraps up the last leg of its $ 4-billion proposal to buy troubled generic drugs maker Ranbaxy in India
Volvo to trial self-driving cars on Swedish streets by 2017
02 Mar 2015
The cars would be used for daily road commuting with a barrier between the lanes and operate in real traffic situation
RBI, govt in pact to bring inflation below 6% by January 2016
02 Mar 2015
Under the monetary policy framework, RBI will publish the operating targets and operating procedures for achieving the targets as also its response to macro-financial conditions
Google acquires .app web domain for $25 mn
02 Mar 2015
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