Entertainment
Dish Network to accept bill payments in bitcoin
30 May 2014
Dish says it is the largest company till date to accept bitcoins for bills settlements
Apple acquires Beats for $3 bn in biggest acquisition to date
29 May 2014
With this acquisition, Apple will jump-start its eight-month-old iTunes Radio and catch up with leaders in the music streaming business like Pandora Media Inc and Spotify
Videocon's DTH arm Bharat Business plans IPO
26 May 2014
As investor sentiment has improved tremendously and the company is waiting for an opportune time to enter the market
BSkyB in talks to merge 21st Century Fox Pay-TV assets in Germany and Italy
12 May 2014
BSkyB believes at the right value, the combination would have the potential to create a world-class multinational pay TV group
Nintendo to introduce new games console
08 May 2014
Cinema ad spend in UK fell 14.5% YoY in 2013
29 Apr 2014
Netflix to hike fees for new subscribers
22 Apr 2014
Sprint, Spotify to strike agreement: reports
14 Apr 2014
Vivendi agrees to sell telecom unit SFR to Numericable in an over $23-bn deal
08 Apr 2014
A merged SFR-Numericable would have almost 7 million broadband customers and 21 million mobile customers
Scotland’s Weir Group eyes $5.5 bn buyout of Finnish rival Metso Oyj
01 Apr 2014
Scottish pump and drilling equipment maker Weir Group is in talks to buy Finnish rival Metso Oyj in a $14.17-billion deal
Indian media, entertainment industry grew 12% in 2013: survey
05 Mar 2014
India’s media and entertainment industry reached Rs92,800 crore in 2013, logging a healthy 12 per cent growth, largely driven by digitisation
Pierce Morgan’s CNN show to end in March
24 Feb 2014
Time Warner Cable to merge with Comcast in $45-bn deal
14 Feb 2014
The merger of Comcast and TWC would create a giant programming provider covering over 60 per cent of subscribers and one-third of all pay-television customers in the US
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