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Intel mulls selling cyber security business
27 Jun 2016
Google Fiber acquires San Francisco ISP Webpass
23 Jun 2016
Musk’s Tesla offers $2.8 bn for his cousins’ SunCity to build clean energy ecosystem
22 Jun 2016
Elon Musk says buying SunCity – of which he is also the chairman – is a ‘no brainer’; yet it is a risky decision as both companies, despite being market leaders, are burning cash, running losses of over $1 billion each over the last two years
Dell to sell software group to Francisco Partners, Elliott Management for reported $2 bn plus
20 Jun 2016
Microsoft acquires Wand Labs
17 Jun 2016
Max Life, Max Financial to merge with HDFC Standard Life
17 Jun 2016
The merger will create an entity with assets worth over Rs1,00,000 crore, making it the biggest consolidation in the country’s private insurance sector
Cabinet clears SBI’s merger of associate banks, BMB
15 Jun 2016
The merged entity will have an asset base of Rs37,00,000 crore (over $555 billion), 22,500 branches, 58,000 ATMs and a customer base of over 500 million
SBI quietly working on merger framework for subsidiaries: report
13 Jun 2016
SBI managing director V G Kannan is reported to be heading the team formed under the supervision of associate and subsidiaries department, and if everything goes well, the merger process is likely to begin in 3-4 months, says the report
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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
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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