IT news
US government to challenge Google's ITA Software takeover
14 Jan 2011
Federal antitrust lawyers are examining whether the acquisition of ITA would give Google too much hold over the online travel industry
iGate makes open offer for 20.6 per cent stake in Patni Computers
11 Jan 2011
US-based iGate, which on Monday struck a deal to acquire Patni Computer Systems, today made an open offer for a 20.6-per cent stake in the company
iGate pays $1.22 billion for 63 per cent Patni stake
10 Jan 2011
iGate, backed by funding from Apax Partners LLP, will pay about $921 million to buy 63 per cent of Patni from the founding family, the Patni brothers
Patni-iGate deal may be announced today
10 Jan 2011
Infosys honours six eminent Indian researchers
06 Jan 2011
The Infosys Prize carries Rs50 lakh in cash, a citation and a gold medallion.
iGate - Patni deal stalls
03 Jan 2011
New funding from Goldman and Digital Sky values Facebook at $50 billion: report
03 Jan 2011
The new valuation makes Palo Alto, California-based Facebook worth more than companies like Yahoo, e-Bay and Time Warner
Sophisticated Android Trojan appears in China
01 Jan 2011
SAP ordered to pay interest on $1.3 billion award to Oracle
29 Dec 2010
A US federal judge has ordered SAP to pay interest on a $1.3-billion award that Oracle Corp won in a copyright-infringement case
Apple works on future versions of iPad 2
29 Dec 2010
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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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