Services
Aegis planning to tap market through $400mn IPO
17 Feb 2012
IT firms' BPOs report lacklustre results for Q3
25 Jan 2012
New US bill targets call centre jobs overseas
20 Dec 2011
Philippines overtakes India as call centre hub
28 Nov 2011
Google’s updated search engine to serve more relevant results
05 Nov 2011
The changes integrated in the search mechanism seek to understand whether a searcher is looking for results 'from the last week, day or even minute, says Google's Amit Singhal
WNS acquires Paxys's stake in Philippines JV
02 Nov 2011
UK security group G4S to acquire Denmark’s facilities company ISS for $8.2 bn
17 Oct 2011
After the merger G4S will become the second-largest non-governmental employer in the world, with more than 1.15 million employees, after US retail giant Wal-Mart
India's top 20 BPO export firms post revenues of Rs 32,246 crore in 2010-11
23 Aug 2011
India's top business process outsourcing companies posted revenues of Rs32,246 crore in 2010-11, maintaining the previous year's 13 per cent growth
UK's Serco to buy Indian BPO Intelenet for Rs2,772 crore
31 May 2011
British services and consulting company Serco has signed a deal to buy Indian business process outsourcing (BPO) firm Intelenet Global Services
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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
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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