Industry
Pearson puts up Mergermarket form sale
27 Jul 2013
Soon, TV channel in US for bored, home-alone dogs
27 Jul 2013
Lonely, bored dogs left at home while their owners are at work will soon have a dedicated TV channel for their entertainment, as 24/7 channel DOGTV goes on air in the US next month on DirecTV
Two of Indian origin in Assange’s seven to run for Australian senate
26 Jul 2013
Julian Assange, founder of the anti-secrecy website WikiLeaks, on Thursday officially launched his Australian political party, through networking site Skype.
Gas export deal with Pakistan in the pipeline, says GAIL
26 Jul 2013
Gail says pipeline exports to Pakistan are viable and should be looked at in the context of India importing gas through the Turkmenistan-Afghanistan-Pakistan-India pipeline
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
Axel Springer sells some publications to rival Funke for $1.22 bn
26 Jul 2013
Axel Springer, Europe’s biggest newspaper publisher, yesterday sold two regional newspapers and some magazines to rival Funke Mediengruppe, for $1.22 million.
Kanimozhi moves SC seeking quashing of corruption charges
24 Jul 2013
MK Kanimozhi, Rajya Sabha MP, today sought discharge from the 2G case saying she has been falsely implicated on the charges of receiving alleged bribe money
Peabody Energy slashes 400 Australian jobs
24 Jul 2013
Taco Bell becomes first US food outlet to stop kids’ meals, toys
23 Jul 2013
Taco Bell said it would stop serving kids' meals and toys, over "marketing concerns rather than unit economics" in the words of its CEO Greg Creed
Telefonica to acquire KPN's German unit E-Plus in €5-bn deal
23 Jul 2013
Dutch telecom company Royal KPN NV today agreed to sell its E-Plus to Telefonica Deutschland in a cash and stock deal
Pharma giants target biotech firm Onyx
23 Jul 2013
Telefonica in talks to buy KPN’s German mobile-phone business E-Plus
23 Jul 2013
Spanish telecom giant Telefonica SA is in talks to buy Dutch telecom company Royal KPN NV’s German mobile-phone unit E-Plus, in a deal potentially valued at around $6.6 billion