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Indian Hotels ends $1.86-bn bid for Orient-Express
09 Nov 2013
Indian Hotels Company, the Tata Group's luxury hospitality arm that owns the iconic Taj Hotels and Resorts brand, has ended a five-year pursuit of adding US luxury hotel chain Orient-Express Hotels to its portfolio
Indian Hotels ends $1.86-bn bid for Orient-Express
09 Nov 2013
Indian Hotels Company, the Tata Group's luxury hospitality arm that owns the iconic Taj Hotels and Resorts brand, has ended a five-year pursuit of adding US luxury hotel chain Orient-Express Hotels to its portfolio
Indian Hotels ends $1.86-bn bid for Orient-Express
09 Nov 2013
Indian Hotels Company, the Tata Group's luxury hospitality arm that owns the iconic Taj Hotels and Resorts brand, has ended a five-year pursuit of adding US luxury hotel chain Orient-Express Hotels to its portfolio
Twitter IPO brings India-born Rizvi a $3.8-bn windfall
09 Nov 2013
47-year-old Suhail Rizvi is a publicity-shy investment manager with clients that include Prince Alwaleed bin Talal of Saudi Arabia
Google barges to sport innovative architecture
08 Nov 2013
GE sees India as manufacturing hub for global markets
08 Nov 2013
General Electric plans to leverage the available talent pool and low manufacturing costs in India to make it a manufacturing hub for its global markets
Twitter soars to $45.1 on NYSE debut
08 Nov 2013
Twitter’s market value soared to $24.5 billion, up around 73 per cent from the $14.2 billion price tag the company had worked out on Wednesday evening
Cisco buys rest of Insieme Networks
08 Nov 2013
Cisco buys rest of Insieme Networks
08 Nov 2013
ECB cuts rates as deflation fears grip euro zone
08 Nov 2013
Airtel launches 3G in Bangladesh
08 Nov 2013
Acer CEO Wang to quit as iPads sweep aside netbooks
07 Nov 2013
The growing popularity of the iPad and other hand-held devices has eaten into Acer's netbook sales, leaving it with worse than expected third quarter losses
Microsoft enhances features of Office Web Apps
07 Nov 2013
Google takes the lid off mystery barge
07 Nov 2013
The sighting of the barge had set off speculation that Google was planning a floating data centre
Twitter raises IPO price range to $23 to $25
07 Nov 2013
As it prepares to debut on the market week, Twitter has raised the price range for its IPO to $23 to $25 per share
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