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IBM chief Virginia Rometty's bonus down to zero as revenues fall
11 Mar 2014
IBM chief Virginia Rometty's cash bonus was down to zero last year, due to a decline in IBM's 2013 revenue
GSK spends $1.05 bn to raise stake in Indian arm
11 Mar 2014
GlaxoSmithKline Plc (GSK) yesterday said that it has paid £625 million ($1.05 billion) to increase its stake in its Indian subsidiary GSK Pharmaceuticals to 75 per cent
Poor Britons offer to sell kidneys on Facebook
11 Mar 2014
An investigation by a UK newspaper has found that desperate Britons are turning to Facebook to advertise their organs for sale at up to £30,000
Sahara chief stuck in jail as SC puts off hearing
11 Mar 2014
The case list on the Supreme Court's website shows that the case, which was listed before a special bench of justices K S Radhakrishnan and J S Khehar, "stands deleted and the same is adjourned"
Coca-Cola chief’s pay package down by third
10 Mar 2014
Yahoo launches new homepage for India
10 Mar 2014
Nokia to launch Android phone Nokia X today
10 Mar 2014
India suspects Vodafone of passing user records to UK spy agency
10 Mar 2014
The issue assumes significance in light of a proposal by Vodafone India’s British parent to buy out the remaining minority stake in the Indian subsidiary for about Rs10,000 crore
DGH failed to properly assess RIL gas discoveries: CAG
10 Mar 2014
CAG says the petroleum ministry and Director General Hydrocarbons approved RIL's gas discoveries in the KG-D6 block, without a proper appraisal by the company
Google under CCI scanner; faces up to $5-bn in fine
10 Mar 2014
Under CCI’s fair trade regulations, any violation of prescribed fair trade norms would attract penalties of up to 10 per cent of its three-year annual average turnover
Ready to return Rs18-cr commission on HAL contract: Rolls-Royce
10 Mar 2014
British firm Rolls-Royce has written to HAL saying that it paid only £1.8 million (Rs18 crore) as commission to an agent and that it was ready to return that amount to the government
Unilever makes decade's biggest investment in Chinese water purifier maker Qinyuan
10 Mar 2014
Unilever, whose brands include Dove, Sunsilk, Axe and Lipton, said that its Pureit purifiers and Qinyuan’s product range offer different and complementary performance and price points and will enable the combined business to offer a complete range of products
SBI eyes sale of bad assets to bolster books
08 Mar 2014
Shocking dosage mix-up forces Ranbaxy to recall generic Liptor in US
08 Mar 2014
Quality concerns about India's $14 billion drug industry have come to the fore after the US FDA banned plants run by Ranbaxy and Wockhardt Ltd from sending drugs to the US, for failure to meet manufacturing standards
IOC to buy 10% in Petronas’s Canadian shale-gas assets, LNG project for $900 mn
08 Mar 2014
Under the deal, IOC will get 1.2 million tonnes of LNG per annum, or 10 per cent of the Pacific Northwest LNG project's production, for a minimum period of 20 years
BASF opens global R&D centre in Mumbai
07 Mar 2014
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