Telecom
Bharti Mittal family pledges Rs7,000 cr to charity
23 Nov 2017
A major part of the wealth pledged for charity will go towards setting up of the proposed Satya Bharti University for Science and Technology, which will offer 'free education' to underprivileged youth
Broadcom mulls raising offer for Qualcomm
23 Nov 2017
Broadcom closes $5.5 bn acquisition of Brocade Communications
20 Nov 2017
Broadcom Ltd yesterday said that it has closed its $5.5-billion acquisition of network gear maker Brocade Communications Systems Inc.
Apple iPhone X to retail on Airtel Online Store
18 Nov 2017
Apple trying to sell its own anti-pesky call app to Trai
16 Nov 2017
Apple, which refused to approve Trai’s 'Do Not Disturb' mobile app, has now reportedly agreed to help the regulator develop an anti-spam mobile application, but with limited applications
Nokia starts production at 5G-ready base station near Chennai
15 Nov 2017
Finnish telecom products maker Nokia has begun manufacturing at its 5G-ready ‘AirScale’ multiband base station in India from its facility at Oragadam near Chennai, and will start shipping the product to global customers by next week
Vodafone, Idea selling their tower business to ATC for Rs7,850 cr
13 Nov 2017
Vodafone India and Idea Cellular, which are in the process of being merged, will receive Rs3,850 crore and Rs4,000 crore respectively from the tower sale to ATC Telecom Infrastructure in a deal which will not affect the terms of the merger
Govt set to launch Rs34,000-cr second phase of BharatNet
13 Nov 2017
Optical fibre connectivity is now available in 1 lakh gram panchayats, and with the completion of the Rs34,000-crore second phase of the BharatNet project by March 2019, all gram panchayats in the country will have high-speed broadband connectivity
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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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Market predator Hindenburg preys on Adani stock
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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
