Nike launched a new running shoe that complies with limits set by World Athletics after the governing body imposed a landmark ban on a version of the sportswear giant's Vaporfly shoes that was used to run the first sub-two hour marathon. The first-ever shoe ban by World Athletics (WA) last week addressed concerns that technology advances are giving athletes an unfair and unnatural advantage, described by some critics as "technological doping".
Surprisingly, Jeff Bezos is the new entrant to the list and ends up holding the first position.
'We need to retell this history from many different perspectives.'
Lovers Rock is sexy, romantic, charming and hugely entertaining -- a perfect gift for movie lovers in these tough times, feels Aseem Chhabra.
Former Real Madrid forward Raul, the Spanish giants' joint-record scorer, will hang up his boots in November after a stellar 21-year career as one of the game's finest talents.
The personal fortune of Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg has doubled to $14 billion after his social networking site got a huge cash injection from Goldman Sachs.
Spanish football giants Barcelona and Real Madrid have overtaken baseball's New York Yankees as the highest paid teams in global sport, according to the Global Sports Salaries Survey 2011.
Along with India's Consul General Dnyaneshwar Mulay.
Barry Bonds tied Babe Ruth for second place on Major League Baseball's all-time home run list with his 714th run
Software giant Infosys on Monday took strong objection to a United States senator describing it as a 'chop shop' and asserted that the company was a responsible corporate that creates jobs and provides high quality services across the world
Ten images that prove we live in a odd, odd world!
Lingerie giant Victoria's Secret held their annual fashion show in New York last night. Popstar Katy Perry and rapper Akon performed live as supermodels like Adriana Lima, Alessandra Ambrosio and Candice Swanepoel sizzled in intimates on the runway. And don't miss the $2 million bra that was on display!
The search giant is building a system that stores information so that machines as well as people can read it
One should appreciate the sagacity and audacity of JRD and Nani Palkhivala in founding TCS on April 1, 1968. At that time there was no Microsoft or Intel, SAP or Accenture, much less Google.
They needed a person who could build and execute their vision: A frontiersman; a problem solver and an institution builder. It was their and India's good fortune that Faqir Chand Kohli more than measured up to their requirements and indeed laid the foundation to take TCS to unimaginable heights and to the giant success that it is today. Shivanand Kanavi salutes the incomparable F C Kohli, who passed into the ages last week.
According to The New York Post, sources close to BP have revealed that there was a growing expectation that Hayward would announce his departure in late August or September.
An astute advertising professional, he took Ogilvy & Mather India to the number one position after coming on board as managing director in 1994
Internet search engine giant Google has teamed with Intel and Sony to develop Google TV, a platform for bringing the web into the living room via televisions and set-top boxes
Imagine if people could use gestures to run computers and household appliances? Now, global information technology giant Hewlett-Packard has named two Indian-Americans researching this technology as recipients of its innovation research award.
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US-based global technology giant IBM expressed keen interest in participating in India's newly-launched initiatives like Smart Cities and Digital India.
Financial services provider Citigroup is under pressure from federal banking regulators for shuffling its board, including the replacement of its chairman, amid concerns whether chief executive Vikram Pandit will retain his job, a media report says.
Top executives of struggling insurance giant American International Group have agreed to return $50 million taken as bonus as the company faces sharp criticism from taxpayers and federal officials on these payments.
Only China and India can put pressure on the Myanmar junta which recently awarded punishment to pro-democratic leader Aung San Suu Kyi and an American John Yettaw, say experts.
We live in a wonderfully, weird world and here's the proof of it!
'Four years after paying $2 billion to extricate itself from a partnership with Fiat, General Motors is seeking a stake in the Italian automaker in exchange for its Latin American and European operations,' The New York Times reported. It said GM is eager to cede control of its money-losing Opel unit in Germany. 'But Fiat has also expressed interest in GM's other European operations as well as its historically profitable Latin American business,' the report noted.
Donald Trump has now officially become a villain! Not literally but as a comic-book character in a Spider-Man spin-off story by Marvel Comics which depicts an "amorphous, villainous" avatar of the presumptive Republican presidential candidate.
None of the athletes Salazar has worked with were mentioned in Monday's report.
A world without tobacco 'is a world in which people live longer and have happier lives,' Bloomberg, New York Mayor who has a fortune of $16 billion, said at a joint press conference with the Microsoft founder Gates. They said the money would go to anti-smoking groups working with governments to curb the consumption of tobacco and related products, including World Health Organisation and Centres for Disease Control and Prevention.
Noting that the talks between GM and Cerberus Capital Management, the private equity arm that owns Chrysler, began over a month ago, the New York Times said, 'negotiations are not certain to produce a deal.' Quoting two people close to the process, the newspaper said that chances of a merger were "50-50" as of Friday and "would most likely still take weeks to work out."
Global IT giant IBM is understood to be the front-runner to acquire Satyam Computer Solutions, a company it named as one of its main competitors in a filing to the New York Stock Exchange in February. The US major, said sources close to the developments, has begun discussions with Satyam's government-nominated board and expressed its desire to acquire a majority stake in the company. A team of investment bankers and lawyers from the US and Europe has been brought in.
The 104-storey building's opening marks an emotional milestone for the United States.
New York-based Pfizer now outsources about 15 per cent of its manufacturing capabilities. The company aims to double that figure, as part of cost-cutting measures.
Internet's second most popular search engine Yahoo! has said it was open to selling itself to Microsoft, but the software giant's chief executive Steven A Ballmer and his deal makers were not keen to negotiate and ultimately withdrew their proposal. Microsoft had offered to buy Yahoo, second only to Google, for $31 a share, or $44.6 billion, in February, but the search engine felt it was worth more.
Cerberus Capital, the New York-based private equity fund that recently bought Chrysler from the erstwhile DaimlerChrysler for close to $7.5 billion, is entering the Indian market shortly.
Manchester City's Abu Dhabi-controlled owner has agreed to sell a $500 million stake to US private equity firm Silver Lake, making it the world's most valuable soccer group with a $4.8 billion price tag.
Top management of high-tech companies have been asking the US government to rework their Senate immigration bill to allow them to hire more foreign workers.
In a media release, the financial services behemoth said that its board of directors has appointed Vikram Pandit as the company's new chief executive officer and member of the board of directors, effective immediately.
