Industry

PM Shinzo Abe pledges efforts for N-free world on 68th year of Hiroshima bombing

06 Aug 2013

World’s first artificial burger tastes ‘almost like the real thing’

06 Aug 2013

The meat for the artificial burger, manufactured from cow stem cells in a laboratory took five years to develop

German generic drugmaker Stada in talks to buy UK’s Thornton & Ross

06 Aug 2013

John Pritzker takes full control of Commune Hotels

06 Aug 2013

Washington Post sold to Amazon founder Jeff Bezos

06 Aug 2013

The Washington Post will be sold to Jeff Bezos, founder of Amazon.com, for $250 million, taking even its employees by surprise

Cosmetics giant Revlon to buy Spain’s Colomer Group for $660 mn

05 Aug 2013

UK minister for turning empty shops into housing

05 Aug 2013

GDF Suez to sell half of Portuguese thermal, wind power assets to Marubeni

05 Aug 2013

UK's Little Chef chain acquired by Kuwaiti restaurant group Kout Food

05 Aug 2013

Newsweek being sold to digital publisher IBT Media

05 Aug 2013

Digital news group IBT Media has announced plans to buy 80-year-old Newsweek from InterActiveCorp for an undisclosed sum

China bans New Zealand milk powder on fears of botulism contamination

05 Aug 2013

Terra Firma sells northern Irish gas distribution company Phoenix Energy

05 Aug 2013

French dairy products group Lactalis denies plan to buy Parmalat

03 Aug 2013

New York Times Co sells The Boston Globe to Red Sox boss John Henry for $70 mn

03 Aug 2013

The New York Times Co today said that it has agreed to sell Boston Globe and its other New England media properties to John Henry, principal owner of the Boston Red Sox, for $70 million in cash

Poor policy killing Indian telecom, says regulator Khullar

03 Aug 2013

Urgent measures needed to revive telecom: TRAI chief

03 Aug 2013

The chief of the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India, Rahul Khullar, has said that it is imperative to resolve licencing issues and create clarity in mergers and acquisitions guideline

British engineering company Smiths Group abandons sale of medical division

03 Aug 2013

OM Manganese fined for desecrating sacred site

03 Aug 2013

German energy giant RWE to sell stake in LNG company Excelerate Energy

03 Aug 2013

Nova Diabetes Care recalls 62 mn faulty glucose test strips

02 Aug 2013

Health ministry revokes suspension notification against diabetes drug, pioglitazone

02 Aug 2013

TransCanada to go ahead with $12-bn Energy East pipeline

02 Aug 2013

Murdoch tabloid The Sun latest to erect online ‘paywall’

02 Aug 2013

India eases FDI norms for multi-brand retail business

01 Aug 2013

The government has liberalised norms regarding infrastructure investment, sourcing from local small units and location of retail business

KKR & Co to buy ReSearch Pharmaceutical from PE firm Warburg

01 Aug 2013