Industry

Israeli company enables simple mobiles to run smartphone apps

25 Jun 2013

An Israeli technology company has developed a method which allows old or outdated phones to run apps available only on smartphones

Hutchison Whampoa acquires Telefonica’s Irish business for €780 mn

25 Jun 2013

Through the acquisition Hutchison's subsidiary Three aims to become the number one operator in the Irish mobile market with it business plans to invest strongly in creating a state of the art network

Panel moots digital arm for state broadcaster Prasar Bharti

24 Jun 2013

Prasar Bharti, the public broadcaster that runs All India Radio and Doordarshan, may get a digital arm to reach out to the increasing number of internet and smartphone users

Suntory to raise $3.9 bn in Japan's biggest IPO this year

24 Jun 2013

Countries face US wrath as Snowden looks for assylum in Ecuador

24 Jun 2013

Floods trip power generation in HP, Uttarakhand

24 Jun 2013

Worldwide devices shipments to grow 5.9 per cent in 2013

24 Jun 2013

CNPC to buy Marathon Oil’s stake in Angolan offshore block for $1.52 bn

24 Jun 2013

US slaps anti-spy charges on whistle-blower Snowden

22 Jun 2013

Nuclear waste leak suspected from double-walled tank at US plant

22 Jun 2013

An underground tank holding some of the worst radioactive waste at the most contaminated nuclear site in the US is suspected to be leaking into the soil.

Parekh warns against conversion of realty loans into home loans

22 Jun 2013

HDFC chairman Deepak Parekh has raised concerns over possible regulatory lapses with lenders restructuring commercial real estate loans into individual home loans

CCEA defers decision on natural gas price hike

21 Jun 2013

Gold recovers slightly after 3-year trough, but still riding low

21 Jun 2013

Now 60 million women in India are Internet users

21 Jun 2013

Archer Daniels Midland in talks to sell $2-bn cocoa business

21 Jun 2013

Archer Daniels Midland Co (ADM) yesterday said that it is in talks to sell its cocoa business, as the US agribusiness giant now focuses on expanding its grains business.

Dunkin’ Donuts to introduce gluten-free pastries in stores across US

20 Jun 2013

Coalgate: CBI begins grilling former secretary H C Gupta

20 Jun 2013

The Central Bureau of Investigation today began questioning former coal secretary H C Gupta in connection with the coal block allocation scam.

India allows nationwide surveillance of emails, phones without safeguards

20 Jun 2013

Global semiconductor equipment spending to decline 5.5% in 2013: Gartner

20 Jun 2013

UK hospitals watchdog faces credibility crisis after scandal suppression

20 Jun 2013

Mahagenco accused of engineering deliberate project delays

20 Jun 2013

Merkel, Obama agree over role of surveillance in countering terrorism

20 Jun 2013

SC to hear PIL over NSA snooping on Indian data

19 Jun 2013

Nine US-based internet companies operating in India through agreements signed with Indian users, shared 6.3 billion information / data with the US National Security Agency

Surveillance efforts helped bust terror plots: NSA

19 Jun 2013

BC Partners to buy German publisher Springer Science+Business Media for $4.4 bn

19 Jun 2013