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FDA pushes for warnings on generic drugs
18 Feb 2014
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7-mn members to decide on Co-op Group's business future
18 Feb 2014
After suffering the worst year in its 150-year history, the United Kingdom’s Co-operative Group is turning to its 7 million member-customers, asking them what it should be like in the 21st century
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Airtel confirms takeover of Loop Mobile; avoids disclosing deal size
18 Feb 2014
Bharti Airtel, India's largest mobile services company, today confirmed acquisition of Loop Mobile, for an undisclsed sum
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Starr Investment consortium in pact to buy MultiPlan for reported $4.4 bn
18 Feb 2014
With a network of over 900,000 healthcare providers and extensive proprietary analytics, MultiPlan generates over $11 billion in medical cost savings on about 40 million claims annually
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Actavis in talks to buy Forest Laboratories for around $25 bn
18 Feb 2014
Actavis, the world's third-largest generics prescription drug manufacturer, hopes to use the Forest acquisition to deal with the tying up of hospitals, insurers and doctors to negotiate directly to buy prescription drugs at cheaper rates from manufacturers
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Reader's Digest UK sold for just £1 to media tycoon Mike Luckwell
17 Feb 2014
The UK edition of Reader's Digest has been sold by its private equity owner Better Capital for £1 to media tycoon Mike Luckwell
Online fund-raising site Kickstarter hacked
17 Feb 2014
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Appeals by Indian drug firms fail to impress FDA’s Hamburg
By By Jagdeep Worah | 17 Feb 2014
India’s pharmaceutical industry supplies 40 per cent of over-the-counter and generic prescription drugs consumed to the United States. Jagdeep Worah reports
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US pharma cos want clinical trial regulations in India lifted
15 Feb 2014
US drug firms argue that the new guidelines on clinical research in India that provide for financial compensation to human subjects and their families in cases of death or injury are difficult to implement
![Japanese e-commerce company Rakuten to buy instant messaging app Viber for $900 mn Japanese e-commerce company Rakuten to buy instant messaging app Viber for $900 mn](/industry/telecom/images/rakuten_static_domain-b.jpg)
Japanese e-commerce company Rakuten to buy instant messaging app Viber for $900 mn
14 Feb 2014
Rakuten Inc, Japan’s largest e-commerce company, today struck a deal to buy Cyprus-based messaging and VoIP service operator Viber Media Ltd for $900 million, in a bid to expand in emerging markets
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Global sales of smartphones surpassed feature phones in 2013: Gartner
14 Feb 2014
Sales of smartphones accounted for 53.6 per cent of overall global mobile phone sales in 2013, and exceeded annual sales of feature phones for the first time
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RIL's 900 MHz hopes dashed; govt to collect Rs61,162.22 cr from auction
13 Feb 2014
RIL's Jio Infocomm, which bid aggressively for both the premium 900 Mega Hertz and the less efficient 1,800 MHz bands, today bowed out of te 900 Mghz race
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