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Former Olympus chairman, six others arrested in Japan
16 Feb 2012
Tsuyoshi Kikukawa, the former chairman, resigned late last year after Briton Michael Woodford, a former CEO, blew the whistle on the scam in the Japanese company
BP cuts book value of its RIL holding by over 10%
16 Feb 2012
BP's move follows hard on the heels of a top petroleum ministry official saying that Reliance’s Krishna-Godavari D6 offshore fields may see production drop to an all-time low of about 27 units day by April
Telenor aims to dump Unitech
16 Feb 2012
Chesapeake Energy announces $12-bn asset sale to reduce debt
14 Feb 2012
Chesapeake says its 2012 financial plan aims to fully cover planned capital spending for this year and provide additional liquidity for 2013
EU and US regulators approve Google-Motorola merger
14 Feb 2012
Regulators have warned Google that they would monitor its use of Motorola Mobility’s portfolio of 17,000 patents, particularly those that are deemed standards essential
IDG, SAIF invest Rs68 crore in BrainBees
13 Feb 2012
DuPont Co to auction vehicle paint unit; expects $4 bn
11 Feb 2012
The sale would be the Wilmington, Delaware-based company's third largest asset disposal since 2001
Oracle to acquire cloud-based software firm Taleo for $1.9 billion
10 Feb 2012
In its second acquisition of cloud-computing firm in three months, Oracle Corp said yesterday it is taking over cloud-based human-resources software maker Taleo Corp
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