Market roundup

COMPANIES

• Wipro to acquire Infocrossing
• BASF to increase propionic acid capacity in Ludwigshafen and Nanjing
• Nokia adds Microsoft PlayReady technology for flexible access to digital entertainment
• Royal Sundaram expands network hospitals
• Dow to build chemicals plant in Thailand with Solvay; plans on for HPPO plant with BASF
• Microsoft India launches off-site ERP service for small businesses
• Siemens consortium secures order for power plant extension from Kuwait
• Strides Arcolab completes acquisition of Diaspa's fermentation facility in Italy
• Chola MS General Insurance looks for a new core insurance solution
  
• Microsoft India selects five entrepreneurs for 'rural innovation' funding
  
• GMR to develop multi product special economic zone in Tamil Nadu
  
• Chennai court rejects Novartis patent challenge
• GE's engines will power Air India's new Boeing planes
• Airtel, Google in broadband tie up
• Samsung nonchalant about chip production
• EU clears Barclays 89.10 bn bid for ABN AMRO
  

• It's now official: Americans prefer non-American cars
• Brazil replaces the head of its airport authority
• Now, a time-share plane!
• Indigenous cryogenic stage tested for eight minutes
  
• US foes Iran and Nicaragua widen cooperation
  
• House of Representatives votes for clean-energy bill
• US tells India to reduce economic relations with Iran
• India to overtake US, Japan in economic growth by 2050

• Bayer HealthCare and Nektar Therapeutics to develop innovative therapy for pneumonia
• Fujitsu bid for GFI may falter as Apax hikes stake
• 3i Infrastructure buys three companies from Germany's Oiltanking
• GE Money buys major stake in Poland's New BPH from Unicredito
• Cerberus picks Robert Nardelli to run Chrysler
• ICI tentatively agrees to sweetened Akzo offer: report
• Istithmar faces heat over Barney's bid from Fast Retailing's parent Uniqlo
• Sabotage by bag handlers caused luggage glitch at Rome airport
• Dubai Aerospace bags Landmark Aviation
• Barclays launches formal bid to acquire ABN Amro
• Delphi reaches tentative deals with four unions

• President Pratibha Patil calls for agricultural growth
• Ajay Bimbhet to head Royal Sundaram