Reliance Venture in pact with MIT for youth biz fest

Monday, March 8th, 2010

ADAG group firm Reliance Venture Asset Management announced that it has entered into an agreement with Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) for the 2010 edition of the college’s entrepreneurship competition.

The MIT $1,00,000 is an entrepreneurship competition that awards over USD 350,000 in cash and prizes, including USD 100,000 in cash for the grand prize, to [...]

AFII joins French Hotel Development Consortium

Monday, March 1st, 2010

AFII has joined a French Consortium developing luxury hotel projects in France and Belgium.

AFII Corporate Advisors Limited, an Indian boutique investment bank, will be supporting investments into the projects being adopted by the group that include some prime assets in France and Belgium with current projects of over €500 Mn.
AFII intends to tell the India [...]

AirLive to unveiled world’s first dual 2.4GHz radios access point

Thursday, February 25th, 2010

AirLive®, one of the most advanced worldwide brands for networking and communication equipments, is all set to take part in the 18th Convergence India 2010, the largest ICT event in South Asia. AirLive will present visitors with a comprehensive set of Wireless Outdoor devices that are tailored to meet the unique requirements of the India [...]

Volkswagen Polo launched in India

Wednesday, February 24th, 2010

German auto giant Volkswagen  launched their Polo hatchback in the Indian market.

Volkswagen Polo is available in both petrol and diesel and it has been priced very competitively. Volkswagen Polo petrol edition is available at prices starting at Rs. 4.34 lakhs. The diesel edition starts at Rs. 5.32 lakhs.
Volkswagen would start delivering the petrol edition Polo [...]

Aircel teams up with Oracle on content delivery platform

Tuesday, February 23rd, 2010

Aircel, a mobile service provider in India, has teamed with Oracle to deploy Communications Services Gatekeeper and Fusion Middleware to provide a personalized content delivery platform for new revenue generation.

Aircel has previously deployed Oracle Communications service fulfillment software, Siebel CRM, Fusion Middleware and Oracle Database.
The new offerings allow Aircel to offer a new multi-channel content [...]

Oriflame going to launch 250 products and planning to appoint 50K sales consultant

Friday, February 19th, 2010

Oriflame India, a fully-owned subsidiary of the 1.3-billion euro Swedish direct-selling company, will be adding 250 new products to its existing portfolio of 790 during this year. Oriflame is planning to appoint 50,000 sales consultants to take the figure up to 200,000 by the end of this year.
 
According to the Indian Direct Marketing Association, direct [...]

Sensex up 125 pts higher, driven by positive cues from US

Saturday, February 6th, 2010

Indian shares snapped a two-day falling streak to close 0.8 percent higher on Saturday buoyed by overnight gains on Wall Street, but BSE investors remained cautious about European debt and the global recovery.

The Bombay Stock Exchange benchmark Sensex resumed higher by 142 points and touched an intraday high of 15,951.07 points before ending at 15,915.65, [...]

Apple launch much awaited IPad

Friday, January 29th, 2010

Apple Inc. will sell the newly unveiled tablet-style iPad starting at $499, a price tag far below the $1,000 that some analysts were expecting.

The iPad, which is larger in size but similar in design to Apple’s popular iPhone, was billed as “so much more intimate than a laptop and so much more capable than a [...]

Shalina Healthcare celebrated 25 years in Pharma Business

Thursday, January 28th, 2010

Shalina Laboratories Pvt. Limited, a Government Recognised Export House, celebrated its silver jubilee in their Pavane plant. The event was attended by the Director of Shalina Laboratories Mr. Abbas Virji, and the prominent dignitaries. The dignitaries are Mr. Robert Tachie Menson-Ambassador of Ghana, Mr. Balumuene Francois – Ambassador of Congo, Ms. Christ-Commercial Manager of Delmas Shipping, France

The event started [...]

Zaheer Khan’s Havocs set-up series win against Bangladesh

Wednesday, January 27th, 2010

Zaheer Khan produced a destructive spell of swing bowling to ruin Bangladesh with a career-best 7 for 87 as India crushed the hosts by 10 wickets in the second Test and clinch the two-match series 2-0 here today.

After putting up stiff resistance yesterday, Bangladesh succumbed to a spectacular batting collapse today with Zaheer wreaking havoc, [...]