KOLKATA: Indian Oil Corporation Ltd will start moving petroleum goods to Tripura via Bangladesh from Friday. The first convoy of tank trucks will be flagged-off from IOCL’s Guwahati terminal by executive director Dipankar Roy. This convoy of seven tank trucks will carry 84,000 litres of diesel and kerosene to Tripura ... Read More »
Pfizer Inc’s chief executive on Thursday said recent proposals by Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton to curb “unjustified” U.S. drug prices would dampen investment in innovative new drugs and ultimately hurt consumers. “(They) would be very negative for innovation,” Ian Read said in webcast from the annual Wells Fargo healthcare ... Read More »
HYDERABAD: Payment solutions provider Mastercard is keen on collaborating with the Union and state governments to provide technologies for the Smart Cities initiative, Porush Singh, country corporate officer (India) and division president (South Asia), MasterCard, said on Thursday here. Speaking at the 45th Skoch Summit, Singh said, “As a global ... Read More »
Lego enjoyed an 11% increase in sales in the first half of this year compared with the same period in 2015. The Danish toy company, best known for its building bricks, had a turnover of 15.7bn Danish kroner (£1.8bn). However, net profit fell slightly to 3.5bn DKK (£393m) from 3.6bn ... Read More »
British Airways has apologised to passengers facing delays after an IT glitch affected check-in desks. Passengers complained of delays at check-in and at the baggage drop, and on the tarmac waiting for take-off. The airline said passengers were able to check in at Heathrow and GatwickAirports “although it is taking ... Read More »
Germany’s Bayer has raised its offer for Monsanto to $65bn (£49bn), or $127.50 a share, in a bid to create a global seeds and pesticides giant. Bayer said it was in advanced talks with Monsanto, but warned there was no guarantee a deal would result. Its initial offer of $122 ... Read More »
The iPhone 7 is mere days away from its September 7 unveiling, but until that actually happens it’s never too late for a forecast by a respected analyst. KGI Securities’ Ming-Chi Kuo has rounded up all the available intel on Apple’s next-gen smartphone in a new report. The important stuff ... Read More »
tvOS is the operating system software platform that runs on the fourth-gen Apple TV. It’s the Apple TV’s equivalent of iOS on the iPhone or macOS on the Mac; it manages the apps you can install on the device and offers various features of its own. Just as iOS and macOS ... Read More »
It’s time to update your Macbook. Apple issued updates for OS X and its Safari browser last week to close a loophole that could allow attackers to take over a computer and execute programs to steal data or spy on its user. News of the update was first reported by ... Read More »
Europe plans to give media companies the power to demand payment from search engines like Google when snippets of their content are republished. The European Commission is is working on a significant overhaul of copyright law that aims to help level the playing field between news outlets and tech giants ... Read More »
SBI Life Insurance Company, a joint venture between the State Bank of India and French insurer BNP Paribas Cardif, is set to become the number one life insurance company in the private sector, according to a top company official. This is despite the fact that HDFC Life and Max Life ... Read More »
Vinod K. Dasari Commercial vehicle maker Ashok Leyland has drawn up a holistic game plan to usher in a fresh transformation to not only stay healthy as a company in the context of emerging market dynamics but also move up in value graph. Sketching out the details of the new ... Read More »
