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Union pushes for IPO at Chrysler, forces filing
24 Sep 2013
Google hit by service disruption
24 Sep 2013
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Blackberry receives $4.7-bn buyout offer from Prem Watsa’s Fairfax Financial
24 Sep 2013
Analysts say that if Blackberry continues to remain listed, it would go bankrupt in six months after burning its $2.8 billion cash reserves
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Apple sells record nine million new iPhones
24 Sep 2013
Apple says it has sold a record 9 million of its new iPhones in just three days and its iOS 7 operating software has been downloaded 200 million times since launch on 18 September, making it the biggest software release for the company
BlackBerry to take BBM cross platform
24 Sep 2013
Fiat to buy out General Motors in VM Motori JV
23 Sep 2013
Oracle top bosses take salary cuts
21 Sep 2013
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BlackBerry to post nearly $1 bn Q2 loss, cut 4,500 jobs
21 Sep 2013
Ontario-based BlackBerry holds nearly $1 billion worth of unsold smartphones, mostly its Z10 touch-screen device, which it had promoted as its flagship model and a potential competitor to the iPhone
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Google looks to voice-based interface as web search goes mobile
21 Sep 2013
Google, which on an average handles 100 billion searches a month, needs a new voice-based interface as web search enters the next frontier of mobile search
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Lighter than air, yet very, very powerful
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!
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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.
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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.
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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
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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
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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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History of hovercraft Part 3...
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History of hovercraft Part 2...
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History of Hovercraft Part 1...
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