COMPANIES

• UB Group acquires Whyte & Mackay for £595 million
• Hyundai phases out Viva, CRDi variants of Accent
• Essar SEZ may be de-recognised
• L&T looks for acquisitions in West Asia
• Indo Rama Q4 profit up 91 pc
• Reliance Petroleum selects Dow Global process for PP unit
• Ripley's comes to India
• Virgin Mobile to enter India
• Tata Tele Maharashtra to invest Rs500 crore in FY08
• GSM cos oppose TRAI's allowing internet telephony to ISPs
• Tata Power, Doosan enter into $1 billion deal for Mundra
• Balaji Telefilms' Q4 net up 37.25 pc

• Worldwide IT services revenue growth at 6 pc: Gartner
• Nath objects to H1-B move by US senators
• Raja says rural telephony is top priority
• Japan emerges most innovative in business practices, Sweden, US follow
  

• Alfa Laval revises buyback offer price
• No service tax on entry, exit loads charged by MFs
• Realty MFs to be introduced by year-end

• Rupee moves up against dollar
• Bank of Baroda in pact with D&B
• L&T Finance selects Nucleus' solution
• SBI associates to raise Rs3,000 crore

• Yahoo expands online advertising partnership
• Wal-Mart's image improves: survey

• Chandrashekhar appointed director at Pfizer