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Acer CEO Wang to quit as iPads sweep aside netbooks
07 Nov 2013
The growing popularity of the iPad and other hand-held devices has eaten into Acer's netbook sales, leaving it with worse than expected third quarter losses
Microsoft enhances features of Office Web Apps
07 Nov 2013
Google takes the lid off mystery barge
07 Nov 2013
The sighting of the barge had set off speculation that Google was planning a floating data centre
Twitter raises IPO price range to $23 to $25
07 Nov 2013
As it prepares to debut on the market week, Twitter has raised the price range for its IPO to $23 to $25 per share
BHEL Q2 net profit plummets 64% to Rs465 crore
07 Nov 2013
Toyota profit up 70% despite sales slide
06 Nov 2013
Google lists Nexus 10 at Rs29,999 on Play Store
06 Nov 2013
iPhone 5s demand outstrips supply in India
06 Nov 2013
Cooper Tire moves court to save $2.5 billion Apollo deal
06 Nov 2013
Analysts doubt whether the court will order closure of the acquisition at the original price
Mis-selling of drugs to cost J&J $2.2 bn in US settlement
05 Nov 2013
The cases, which date from the late 1990s through the early 2000s, involve alleged kickbacks to doctors and pharmacies to promote the antipsychotic drugs Risperdal and Invega, and heart drug Natrecor
BlackBerry shares fall 16% on withdrawal of sale plan
05 Nov 2013
Blackberry has confirmed it is abandoning plans for a sale as it struggles to gain momentum in a tough smartphone market
Google pulls the plug on iGoogle
05 Nov 2013
Google has pulled the plug on its personalised homepage service iGoogle after eight years of its existence
Bharti Airtel acquires Warid Group’s Congo operations
05 Nov 2013
Airtel is currently the second largest operator in Congo, while Warid is the third largest
Android phones under legal attack from Rockstar
05 Nov 2013
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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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