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Vodafone trying for reconciliation on tax issue
29 May 2013
Central banks slam Bloomberg for breaching privacy norms
15 May 2013
Bloomberg News has been accused of “reprehensible” behaviour by the Bank of England after it emerged that Bloomberg reporters had been using the central bank’s information terminals to track users’ activities
Google’s chief Schmidt: YouTube has displaced TV
03 May 2013
SEC to allow companies to share key info via Facebook, Twitter
30 Apr 2013
Companies will now need to be vigilant in preventing hackers from infiltrating their social media accounts to prevent stock-price manipulations
Huffington Post launches German edition; India on the horizon
30 Apr 2013
The Huffington Post currently has international editions in the UK, Canada, France, Spain and Italy, with a sixth edition, in Japan, launching in May
Liberty Global's $22.5 bn Virgin Media deal gets EU green light
15 Apr 2013
The US cable firm, which operates the largest cable network in the EU outside the UK, will now be pitted against Rupert Murdoch's British satellite TV operation BSkyB
AIR to launch 24-hour news channel
13 Apr 2013
WikiLeaks launches archive of US diplomatic documents
08 Apr 2013
The collection covers US involvements in and diplomatic or intelligence reporting on, every country on earth, WikiLeaks describes the documents on its website
Featured articles
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!
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