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Microsoft to buy social network business software company Yammer for $1.2 bn
26 Jun 2012
Yammer already links into Microsoft products like Outlook email and SharePoint collaboration software and add functions to enhance these Microsoft offerings
Aditya Birla nears $1-bn stake purchase of Jaiprakash Associates cement business: report
26 Jun 2012
Kamath prods Infosys to make large acquisitions
25 Jun 2012
Infosys's first non-promoter chairman K V Kamath has nudged the company’s top leadership to use the company’s huge cash pile for expansion through acquisitions
Sesa Goa, Sterlite shareholders approve merger
25 Jun 2012
Anheuser-Busch nears over $12-bn Grupo Modelo deal: report
25 Jun 2012
Anheuser-Busch InBev holds a 50 per cent non-controlling stake in Modelo, but has 43.9 per cent of Modelo's voting shares, while the rest is held by a family trust
Brazilian billionaire Batista to sell 49% in AUX gold to Qatar
23 Jun 2012
The company has inferred mineral resources of 3.5 million ounces of gold, 19 million ounces of silver and 85 million pounds of copper, and a 14-year life span at 7,500 tonnes per day ore production
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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!
COP28 explained: A closer look at COP28's climate change solutions
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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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Ponzi schemes have long captivated the public imagination, drawing unsuspecting investors into a web of illusion and deception.
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
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
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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
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