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After Amazon, Google shares hit record $1,000
06 Jun 2017
Alphabet, the parent company of Google, now has a market value of about $680 billion, which takes the net worth of its founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin to nearly $50 billion each
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Sell-out not on cards, Azim Premji assures Wipro staff
06 Jun 2017
The rumours follow reports that Premji, who owns a 73.25 per cent stake in Wipro, took home 63 per cent less compensation for the last financial year as the country’s third largest software exporter saw profits declining due to shifts in business and technology
Infosys to hire 20,000 people this year
03 Jun 2017
Developer earnings from the App Store top $70 bn
02 Jun 2017
Google adds another security feature to Gmail
01 Jun 2017
People more likely to seek friends’ advice for money decisions rather than “robo-advice”
31 May 2017
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Amazon shares hit $1,000 for the first time
31 May 2017
The stock price takes Amazon’s market value to about $478 billion, double that of the world's biggest traditional retailer Wal-Mart, while the value of a $1,000 investment on Amazon's first day of trading in 1997 exceeds $500,000 today
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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!
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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.
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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.
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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
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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
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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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