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Parle in talks with Poland’s Dr Gerard to expand cookie basket
19 Oct 2022
If Parle, which has never been an acquirer - although it has sold some of its own brands – decides to go ahead with the deal, it will be the company’s first acquisition
Adobe to acquire Figma in $20bn cash-and-stock deal
15 Sep 2022
Adobe expects the combination to accelerate the delivery of its Creative Cloud technologies on the web, making the creative process more productive and accessible to more people
Adani’s move to buy NDTV stake unnerves media groups
26 Aug 2022
Media raises hell as news agency owned by 3rd richest man fears for independent media after 4th richest man plans to buy news channel
ArcelorMittal to acquire Brazilian steelmaker CSP for $2.2 billion
02 Aug 2022
ArcelorMittal also announced a new $1.4bn buyback programme of 60 million shares, to be completed by the end of May 2023, despite a 2 per cent decline in its net income to $3.92 billion for the second quarter ended 30 June 2022
Australia's ANZ to buy Suncorp’s banking arm for $3.3 billion
20 Jul 2022
The acquisition will boost ANZ's retail presence in a fast-growing domestic Queensland region and increase its assets in mortgages by nearly a fifth, helping it to overtake National Australia Bank Ltd (NAB) for third spot in the business
German govt may invest up to $9.4 bn to bail out Uniper
08 Jul 2022
German gas giant Uniper, the country's largest buyer of Russian gas, has been done down by the government’s own denial of gas imports from Russia
CCI approves Google’s $700 million investment in Bharti Airtel
04 Jul 2022
Google’s acquisition of 1.28 per cent equity share capital in Airtel will have a huge impact on the Indian company as the two are looking to form multiple commercial agreements in the future
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The remarkable Ratan Tata
By Kiron Kasbekar | 23 Oct 2024
One newspaper report of Ratan Tata’s passing away showed an old photo of him climbing into the cockpit of a Lockheed Martin F-16 fighter.
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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
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.
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.
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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