Firms/companies
e-retailer Amazon set to challenge Google, MS with new ad system
23 Aug 2014
Amazon's system would resemble Google's AdWords, and is planned to make it easier for marketers to reach the users
ONGC’s domestic gas production down 9% in July
22 Aug 2014
Facebook lawsuit gets support from 60,000 users
22 Aug 2014
Ranbaxy faces fresh US penalty of Rs242 cr over Toansa-made API
22 Aug 2014
This is the second such penalty for the company, which paid $500 million to the US department of justice (DoJ) in May 201
United Bank seeks to block Mallya-Poddar bid to hike MCF stake
22 Aug 2014
If Sebi rescinds permission for the joint open offer on the basis of UBI’s complaint, it would result in a further setback for Mallya, whose UB Group has already been displaced as the largest shareholder in United Spirits and United Brewerie
Berkshire Hathaway fined $896,000 by DoJ
21 Aug 2014
The settlement is a blemish for Warren Buffet, whose old-fashioned wit and uncanny business sense had earned him the nickname The Oracle of Omaha
HP third-quarter profit down 29%per cent
21 Aug 2014
AT&T bringing GigaPower Internet to Cupertino
21 Aug 2014
Cairn India gets green nod to hike oil, gas output at Rajasthan block
21 Aug 2014
Cairn India expects its gas reserves in Barmer to be 3 trillion cubic feet, which is almost equal to Reliance Industries’ reserves in the Krishna-Godavari basin in India’s east coast
IFC launches $2.5-bn rupee bond programme
20 Aug 2014
Proceeds of the bond sale will be used for infrastructure investments in India over the next five years
Dena Bank, OBC branches in Mumbai under probe over FD fraud
20 Aug 2014
Close on the heels of the Syndicate Bank scam, the finance ministry has now ordered a forensic audit at two Mumbai branches of state-run Dena Bank and Oriental Bank of Commerce over misappropriation of FDs of a total Rs436 crore
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