Firms/companies
IHCL to rejig global business, add 34 new hotels
13 Sep 2013
Lockheed Martin acquires British IT Amor Group
13 Sep 2013
Facebook Inc testing auto play videos
13 Sep 2013
Intel to close Hudon facility, cut 700 jobs
13 Sep 2013
Dell shareholders approve Michael Dell's $25-bn offer
13 Sep 2013
Dell Shareholders today approved Michael Dell's offer to take the company private for $25 billion, ending six months of bitter opposition from billionaire activist investor Carl Icahn
TCS, UK government to jointly offer world’s first cyber security educational programme
12 Sep 2013
TCS and the UK Foreign & Commonwealth Office will jointly create the Chevening-TCS Scholarship on cyber policy for Indian professionals
Challenges ahead for Apple from new open mobile operating systems
12 Sep 2013
Telecoms expert Ronald Klingebiel, assistant professor of strategy at Warwick Business School, says new ways apps are delivered on phones could spell trouble for Apple after it unveiled its latest iPhone
Google’s data collection in Street View project in violation of wire tap law court rules
12 Sep 2013
A federal appeals court ruled yesterday that Google violated federal wire tap laws, with its sweeping data collection including such data such as passwords and email from internet users, for its Street View photo mapping
UltraTech to buy 51% in Jaypee Cement unit for Rs4,000 crore
11 Sep 2013
The Aditya Birla Group firm will acquire a 51-per cent stake in Jaypee Cement’s 5 million tonne per annum Gujarat facility
Cisco enters data storage business with Whiptail acquisition
11 Sep 2013
With this acquisition, though Cisco will enter the $50-billion enterprise storage industry, the deal could affect its existing partnerships EMC and NetApp, both of whom make storage systems-based on flash memory chips
Canada sells part stake in GM for $1.1 bn
11 Sep 2013
IBM to sell its customer-care outsourcing business to Synnex for $505 mn
11 Sep 2013
IBM is selling its customer-care outsourcing business to Synnex Corp for $430 million in cash and $75 million in stock, giving IBM a stake in the California-based acquirer
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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.
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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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