Telecom
Telenor’s hike in Telewings stake to 74% is finalised
27 Dec 2013
Norway-based telecom services company Telenor today announced that it has raised its stake in its Indian arm Telewings Communications to 74 per cent with an investment of about Rs1,000 crore
BlackBerry cancels two handset models over fears of unsold stocks
27 Dec 2013
BlackBerry sales have fallen so low that the troubled handset maker has actually cancelled two handsets it was developing
Apple fined for meddling in pricing by Taiwanese service providers
26 Dec 2013
Taiwan’s anti-trust regulator, Fair Trade Commission, said the ruling applied to iPhones only and that it has no plans to investigate price interference with iPads
Mission accomplished says Snowden
24 Dec 2013
SMS is official document now
24 Dec 2013
Mobile messaging SMSes will now be accepted by government departments as a documentary proof while utilising citizen-services for making payments, registrations and various other schemes
BlackBerry to outsource handset production to Foxconn
21 Dec 2013
Foxconn will get a share of profit on each device in return for taking on inventory management, which could result in writedowns if smartphones did not sell
Hong Kong’s PCCW to buy back CSL New World Mobility for $2.4 bn from Telstra
20 Dec 2013
Telstra holds 74.6-per cent stake in CSL, while the remaining 23.4 per cent is held by New World, a Hong Kong-based property development and telecommunications company
Botnet steal text messages from Android handsets
19 Dec 2013
DoT, TRAI at odds over CDMA auction base price
14 Dec 2013
The Department of Telecommunications has approached TRAI for the fourth time in six months seeking its recommendations on the base price for auction of CDMA spectrum
Micromax to go global and upmarket
13 Dec 2013
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The Rise and Rise of HDFC Bank
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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
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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
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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