Firms/companies
GlaxoSmithKline's $1.57-bn restructuring to hit US jobs
04 Dec 2014
GSK is struggling with declining sales, especially in the US, mainly due to a fall in its respiratory business, which accounted for 30 per cent of its global sales last year
Govt to sell 5% stake in SAIL on Friday
03 Dec 2014
The NDA government under Prime minister Narendra modi will kick off its first disinvestment programme with the sale of 5-per cent stake in state-run Steel Authority of India Ltd) on Friday
Telenor and TeliaSonera to merge Danish operations into equal JV
03 Dec 2014
The merged entity will have a combined mobile subscriber base of around 3.5 million, market share of approximately 40 per cent, revenues of more than DKK 9 billion ($1.5 bn) and significant synergy potential
Financial discipline will help lower lending rates, says Rajan
03 Dec 2014
By over-leveraging bank credit Indian companies are piling up debt to unserviceable levels resulting in NPAs, which keeps lending rates high, cautions RBI governor Raghuram Rajan
Microsoft acquires startup email Accompli
02 Dec 2014
Warren Buffet’s Lubrizol to buy two units of Weatherford for $750 mn
02 Dec 2014
The acquisitions of these two businesses will give Lubrizol a more significant footprint in the $20-billion oilfield chemicals business
Amid lawsuits, Steve Jobs may yet prove to be worm in Apple
By By Jagdeep Worah | 02 Dec 2014
As Apple is set to go to trial in the third major anti-trust lawsuit since Steve Jobs died, his emails could make him an exceptional witness against his own company. By Jagdeep Worah
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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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