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Airtel becomes first telco to cross 200-mn subscriber mark in India
20 Feb 2014
Starting out in 1999, Airtel reached its 100-million subscriber mark in 2009, doubling it within five years in 2014
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Facebook to buy smartphone-messaging app WhatsApp for a staggering $16 bn
20 Feb 2014
The WhatsApp deal is the biggest in the internet industry after the whopping $124-billion merger between AOL and Time Warner merger in 2001
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Mahindra comes up with rent-a-battery scheme for e2o electric car
19 Feb 2014
Under the scheme, a customer needs to pay an 'energy fee' starting from Rs2,599 per month which will allow the user to drive 50,000 km (800 km of usage per month) over five years
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Tata is India’s ‘most valuable’ brand, Apple tops global list
19 Feb 2014
While the Tata Group has retained its top position in India in Brand Finance’s Global 500 list, all the others, including SBI, Reliance Industries and Bharti Airtel, have slipped
UK’s BT wins pricing appeal against BSkyB
18 Feb 2014
![CERT warns of vulnerabilities in Chrome, Firefox CERT warns of vulnerabilities in Chrome, Firefox](/companies/companies_g/google/images/web_browsers_college_sm_domain-b.jpg)
CERT warns of vulnerabilities in Chrome, Firefox
17 Feb 2014
The damage from vulnerabilities could lead to memory corruption, unwanted downloading of files, loss of sensitive information and denial of various services on the internet
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Bharti to buy Loop Mobile in Rs700-cr deal: report
17 Feb 2014
Sunil Mittal-promoted telecom operator Bharti Airtel is close to acquiring debt-ridden Loop Mobile for around Rs700-crore, in a deal that would enable it to emerge the largest mobile firm in the Mumbai region
![Essar Global Fund offers to buy rest of Essar Energy for £900 mn Essar Global Fund offers to buy rest of Essar Energy for £900 mn](/companies/companies_e/Essar_group/images/essar_energy_sm_domain-b.jpg)
Essar Global Fund offers to buy rest of Essar Energy for £900 mn
17 Feb 2014
Essar Energy Plc's largest shareholder, the Ruia family's investment vehicle Essar Global Fund Ltd, yesterday said that it has offered to buy the 22-per cent stake it does not own in the London-listed oil and gas producer, for £900 million
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Google looks to offer 10 Gb/s internet speed
15 Feb 2014
Google is working on higher internet speeds of around 10 Gb/second, against the maximum 1 GB/second speed offered by Google Fibre in Kansas City
Nestle India Q4 net marginally up at Rs282 cr
15 Feb 2014
![Toshiba to invest Rs3,000 cr in India over 5 years Toshiba to invest Rs3,000 cr in India over 5 years](/companies/companies_t/Toshiba/images/power_system_sm_domain-b.jpg)
Toshiba to invest Rs3,000 cr in India over 5 years
15 Feb 2014
Toshiba said it is aiming at sales of Rs18,000 crore in India by 2016-17, about seven times from the current level.
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India’s Millet Revolution To Enrich Global Food Basket
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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
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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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