After a series of suicides at Foxconn, Apple Inc's chief executive Steve Jobs said that Foxconn, the global contract manufacturer that assembles iPhones and iPads in China, "is not a sweatshop."
Apple has said the watch will launch in April
The shopping day, similar to Cyber Monday and Black Friday in the United States, comes less than eight weeks after Alibaba's record $25 billion public share listing in New York.
Mukesh Ambani, who is in talks with Saudi Arabian oil giant Aramco to sell one-fifth of his oil-to-chemicals business in India for $ 15 billion, said the two countries have all factors to drive growth - technology, young demography, and leadership.
When it comes to philanthropy, Indians don't share the table with the likes of Bill Gates but still there are a few who do really donate and the latest list is topped by Azim Premji of Wipro.
For now, the concerns over bad loans have taken a back seat; a bigger challenge for the banking community is credit growth, explains Tamal Bandyopadhyay.
Apple's 2 new iPhones target high and low-end markets
The biggest spender was Tata Motors, with Rs 4,224.6 crore assigned under the R&D head.
Representatives of Apple appeared in a Shanghai court on Tuesday to respond to the case filed by Shanghai Zhizhen Network Technology Co, the developer of a voice technology called Xiao i Robot.
IT major Infosys Technologies has incurred a capital expenditure of Rs 63 crore in its three loss-making subsidiaries in China, Mexico and the US.
The company has invested Rs 193 crore ($45 million) in Infosys Consulting, which includes an investment of Rs 81 crore (Rs 810 million) in FY 08. During fiscal 2005, the company established Infosys Consulting, a wholly-owned subsidiary in Texas, US, to add high-end consulting capabilites to its Global Delivery Model.
The worldwide mobile phone sales totaled nearly 426 million units in the first quarter of 2013, a slight increase of 0.7 per cent from the same period last year.
The phone is lighter than Lumia 920 and will hit the market in June.
BAK Telecom India, the Indian subsidiary of the $300 million company, is in talks with the TN government, while the necessary approvals had already been taken. China BAK, which is listed on Nasdaq as CBAK, is the sixth and the second largest battery maker in the world and China respectively.
SBI said it provided credit to Orbital ATK Inc as part of a syndicated deal with other banks.
For Indian CEOs, the US, China and the UK are important markets.
Apple Inc said it received a record four million first-day pre-orders of its new iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 Plus, meaning many customers will have to wait until October for their new phones.
'Without vaccine, Tokyo Olympics in 2021 is difficult'
Reliance Jio and Facebook will look to use WhatsApp for delivering goods from local neighbourhood kirana stores to consumers before expanding collaboration in education and healthcare sector, billionaire Mukesh Ambani said soon after announcing the mega Rs 43,574 -crore deal. "All of us at Reliance and Jio are delighted to welcome Facebook Inc," he said in a short video message posted on the group's social media handles.
Profit of $18 billion was the biggest ever reported by a public company, worldwide.
Cruise ship Diamond Princess, carrying 3,711 people, arrived at the Japanese coast early last week and was quarantined after a passenger who de-boarded last month in Hong Kong was found to be the carrier of the novel virus on the ship. Around 60 people tested positive of the virus on Monday, taking the total number of those infected on the ship to 130.
A wealthy Californian woman of Chinese origin has pleaded guilty to conspiring to illegally exporting high-performance paint coats for a nuclear reactor under construction in Pakistan with China's assistance.
In a major relief to thousands of Indian IT professionals, a federal judge in the US on Thursday blocked the enforcement of a temporary visa ban by the Trump administration on a large number of work permits, including the most sought after H-1B visas, ruling that the president exceeded his constitutional authority.
What the UK is getting out of the Serum Institute is what India is losing. And the responsibility of the Indian State ought to have been to dictate where Serum Institute's vaccine doses should go, argues Ambassador M K Bhadrakumar.
'The hackers' objectives were centred around smearing India's reputation, causing productivity loss, creating operational damage and seeking financial gains.'
With 4G coverage spreading, Indian consumers will likely be more open to investing in smartphones
Metal prices from copper to aluminum and tin have shot up by about 7-32 per cent in the past three months.
New York Stock Exchange-listed Starwood Hotels & Resorts Worldwide, Inc, on Wednesday said it expects to operate 50 hotels in India by the end of 2012 and the country is second only to China in its plans for future growth.
MUrgency is slated to launch services in Amritsar and Jalandhar in the last week of May and cover the entire state by June end.
Yahoo Inc struck a deal with Firefox maker Mozilla Corp to replace Google Inc as the default search engine on the Firefox Web browser in the United States, a move that Yahoo Chief Executive Marissa Mayer said will help boost its flagging search market share.
Sales of Apple's smartphones in China have suffered a setback.
Lenovo Group Ltd said on Tuesday it was establishing a smartphone assembly unit in India.
The next 10 images will prove why the world is a mad, mad place to be in!
ndian media reported last week that the country's air force had issued alerts to its personnel and their families against using Xiaomi phones on security concerns.
Executive take-homes touched a new peak, fuelled by companies' hunt for star talent.
The fall was led by L&T, IndusInd Bank, PowerGrid, NTPC, TCS, ICICI Bank, Axis Bank, Hero MotoCorp, Bharti Airtel and SBI, declining up to 2.64 per cent.
© 2026 Rediff.com - Advertise with us - Disclaimer - Privacy Policy - Sitemap - Feedback - About us - Terms of use - Grievances