Entertainment
Activision Blizzard buys back stake from Vivendi in $8.17-bn deal
26 Jul 2013
Activision Blizzard Inc, the world's largest and most profitable gaming company and a management group will buy itself back from French conglomerate Vivendi in an $8.17 billion deal
Hulu owners abandon sale, to infuse $750 mn
13 Jul 2013
Hulu receives three bids of over $1 bn: report
09 Jul 2013
Los Angeles-based Hulu is best known for free online access to popular TV shows, though it also offers paid subscription for TV shows from its partners like Viacom
UK’s Merlin Entertainments plans £3-bn IPO
17 Jun 2013
Google launches music streaming service
16 May 2013
Dada Saheb Phalke award for Pran
12 Apr 2013
Walt Disney to shut video game production company LucasArts
05 Apr 2013
It has also been moving away from making games for consoles such as the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 and had already moved to the licensing model
China becomes world’s No. 2 box office market
25 Mar 2013
China has overtaken Japan to become the world's second-biggest movie market, registering revenues of $2.7 billion, according to the Motion Picture Association of America
Featured articles
Lighter than air, yet very, very powerful
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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