Firms/companies
BEST monopoly on Mumbai power supply threatened by Tatas
16 Aug 2014
Tata Power Company has been granted distribution licence in the heart of India’s financial capital for the next 25 years, giving residential consumers the option of switching on cheaper power
RCom, earnings rise 21% in Q1
16 Aug 2014
Nalco Q1 net profit vaults 69% to Rs271 crore
14 Aug 2014
Intel to buy Avago Technologies’ networking business for $650 million
14 Aug 2014
Intel, which is a supplier of the majority of chips in servers and PCs, is now eyeing other growth markets like mobile devices and networking
Lenovo Group first-quarter profit up 23%
14 Aug 2014
Cisco to cut 6,000 jobs amidst lacklustre quarterly results
14 Aug 2014
The latest round of layoffs comes as the third workforce cut in about that many years for a company that was once integral to the internet boom
Top HSBC directors receive shares worth over £7 mn
14 Aug 2014
According to HSBC the shares formed part of a fixed remuneration package for the staff involved
Adani gets Queensland nod for mine-rail project
14 Aug 2014
The Adani group is building a 300-km rail line to connect its Carmichael coal project in Australian to the east coast port of Abbot Point, to ship coal to power plants in India
Adani buys Lanco’s Udupi power plant in Rs6,000-crore deal
14 Aug 2014
The acquisition is the largest ever in the country’s thermal power segment
Tata Steel Q1 profit falls 70% to Rs337.33 crore
13 Aug 2014
Yahoo buys recommendation platform Zofari
13 Aug 2014
Tata Motors launches Zest with prices starting from Rs 4.64 lakh
12 Aug 2014
This is the first new product from Tata Motors in the past four years, and the company is now gearing up to launch its next car, the Bolt
Adani combines with state-run firms to bid for urban piped gas supply
12 Aug 2014
Adani Gas has teamed up with state-run Indian Oil Corp and gas supplier GAIL to bid for licenses to retail CNG and piped cooking gas in 14 Indian cities, including Bengaluru and Pune
Reliance Jio joins Cellular Operators Association of India as core member
12 Aug 2014
Earlier, COAI had opposed the Department of Telecom's issuance of a unified licence to RJI against payment of about Rs1,673 crore in 2013
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