Bharti Airtel mulls IPO of tower unit
August 8th, 2012 - 10:01 pm ICT by IANS
Mumbai, Aug 8 (IANS) Bharti Airtel Wednesday said it has appointed a committee of the board of directors to consider an initial public offer (IPO) for selling up to ... Read more...
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Facebook share price slumps below $20
August 3rd, 2012 - 7:55 pm ICT by Aishwarya Bhatt
New York, Aug 3 (THAINDIAN NEWS) Facebook is with fear of its growth. Yesterday, 2nd March for the first time since it came in to being, Facebook shares dropped to below 20 ... Read more...
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Russian social network delays IPO after Facebook crash
May 30th, 2012 - 11:37 am ICT by IANS
Moscow, May 30 (IANS/RIA Novosti) VKontakte, one of Russia's most-popular social networks, has postponed its initial public offering indefinitely after the flotation of the world's largest social network Facebook ... Read more...
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Chairman Adam Parr to leave Williams F1 team
March 26th, 2012 - 5:57 pm ICT by IANS
Grove (United Kingdom), March 26 (IANS) The Williams Formula One team Monday announced that its Chairman Adam Parr will leave the outfit by the end of the week.Parr joined Williams ... Read more...
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Facebook’s COO Sheryl Sandberg earned $30.9 million in 2011
February 3rd, 2012 - 10:39 pm ICT by Aishwarya Bhatt
New York City, Feb 3 (THAINDIAN NEWS) Facebook’s Chief Operating Officer – Sheryl Sandberg earned a whooping $30.9 million in the last financial year. This huge figure includes her basic salary ... Read more...
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Facebook’s IPO will give birth to many millionaires
December 9th, 2011 - 10:49 pm ICT by Aishwarya Bhatt
Los Angeles, Dec 9 (THAINDIAN NEWS) Facebook’s anticipated IPO next year is being monitored by investors keenly. Experts are speculating that the IPO could make at least a thousand people millionaires when ... Read more...
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Facebook discussing filing IPO in 2012
November 30th, 2011 - 11:16 pm ICT by Aishwarya Bhatt
New York, Nov 30 (THAINDIAN NEWS) Facebook is reportedly in talks for an initial public offering in April 2012. The social networking site which is home to about 800 million users will ... Read more...
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Facebook to be valued at over $100 bn in 2012
November 29th, 2011 - 7:47 pm ICT by IANS
London, Nov 29 (IANS) Social network Facebook is preparing to allow private investors to invest in the website next year, and hopes its first offering will value the company ... Read more...
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Groupon IPO raises $700 million
November 4th, 2011 - 11:16 pm ICT by Aishwarya Bhatt
New York, Nov 4 (THAINDIAN NEWS) Groupon’s IPO has become the second largest Internet business. The company has generated $700 million with its initial public offering. When Google went public in 2004, ... Read more...
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Is Hulu available for sale?
June 23rd, 2011 - 1:58 am ICT by Aishwarya Bhatt
New York, June 22 (THAINDIAN NEWS) There is a strong rumor doing the rounds today that the online video service Hulu might be up for sale. There are unconfirmed reports that Yahoo ... Read more...
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Facebook ‘to be worth $100b by next spring’
May 3rd, 2011 - 2:20 pm ICT by ANI
London, May 3 (ANI): Facebook's earnings are growing faster than the company had predicted in 2010, leading to speculation that it could be worth as much as 100billion dollars by next ... Read more...
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Assange seeks to register his name as trademark
March 3rd, 2011 - 3:23 pm ICT by ANI
London, Mar.3 (ANI): Wikileak founder Julian Assange is seeking to register his name as an entertainment service trademark in Britain.But the move by the 39-year-old Australian has been described as "bizarre" in ... Read more...
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Julian Assange seeks to register name as trademark
March 2nd, 2011 - 8:06 pm ICT by IANS
Sydney, March 2 (IANS) Lawyers for WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange are seeking to register his name as an entertainment services trademark in Britain.The application seeks to protect his name in ... Read more...
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SEBI alerts investors about risky market
January 14th, 2011 - 7:54 pm ICT by IANS
Agartala, Jan 14 (IANS) Capital market regulator Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI) Friday asked investors to remain alert about the risky market."The SEBI has toughened its actions and is intensifying ... Read more...
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Lavasa questions environment ministry notice timing, motive
November 29th, 2010 - 8:21 pm ICT by IANS
New Delhi, Nov 29 (IANS) Replying to the environment ministry's show cause notice for violating green laws at its Lake City project near Pune, Lavasa Monday said the ministry acted under pressure ... Read more...
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White House says stimulus created 3.5mn jobs
November 19th, 2010 - 12:40 pm ICT by IANS
By Arun Kumar
Washington, Nov 19 (IANS) US President Barack Obama lauded the "success story" of General Motors' stock sale as the White House claimed a $787 billion stimulus bill would produce ... Read more...
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GM Stock Price Rises, No Good for Older Stock Holders
November 19th, 2010 - 3:25 am ICT by Angela Kaye Mason
Nov 18 (THAINDIAN NEWS) The reports are out; GM stock prices have passed thirty five dollars and could net over twenty billion dollars. A report from the Washington Post states that the ... Read more...
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Ralph Nader Tries To Delay GM IPO
November 12th, 2010 - 8:26 pm ICT by GD
By Ranjan Bhaduri
Nov 12, (THAINDIAN NEWS) Ralph Nader well known consumer advocate along with two consumer groups tried desperately to linger the planned IPO of US car manufacturer GM or General Motors. ... Read more...
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Nader tries his best to delay GM’s IPO
November 12th, 2010 - 8:21 pm ICT by Aishwarya Bhatt
New York, Nov 12 (THAINDIAN NEWS) A group, led by Nader is requesting the United States authorities to block the planned initial public offering of General Motors. They argue that the delay ... Read more...
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Coal India production falls short of target
November 2nd, 2010 - 12:57 am ICT by IANS
Kolkata, Nov 1 (IANS) Coal India, the country's biggest miner, saw its coal production increase marginally by 0.7 percent during the first half of the 2010-11 fiscal compared to the same period ... Read more...
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CSS Corp mulls IPO in India
September 21st, 2010 - 1:54 am ICT by IANS
Chennai, Sep 21 (IANS) The $135 million US based information technology (IT) company CSS Corp is mulling an initial public offer (IPO) sometime in the future in India, said a top company ... Read more...
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Cisco plans to buy Skype
August 31st, 2010 - 1:09 am ICT by IANS
San Francisco, Aug 30 (DPA) Cisco has made a bid to buy Skype for around $5 billion, before the privately-held internet phone company goes public, the influential Silicon Valley blog TechCrunch reported ... Read more...
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Six-year-old girl is China’s youngest shareholder
August 20th, 2010 - 4:01 am ICT by IANS
Beijing, Aug 20 (IANS) A six-year-old girl has become the youngest shareholder on China's Nasdaq-style growth enterprises board, after she inherited 62,500 shares from her father, reports Xinhua.
The Shaoxing-based Zhejiang Sunflower Light ... Read more...
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Agricultural Bank of China on track for record IPO
July 8th, 2010 - 12:53 am ICT by IANS
Beijing, July 7 (DPA) The Agricultural Bank of China Ltd is on track to attract a record $22.1 billion after pricing its initial public offering in Shanghai and Hong Kong, reports said ... Read more...
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PayPal co-founder & Tesla co-owner Elon Musk claims that he is broke
June 23rd, 2010 - 7:33 pm ICT by Aishwarya Bhatt
New York, Jun 23 (THAINDIAN NEWS) PayPal co-founder Elon Musk has claimed that he is broke. He says that he has run out of cash, and asking people to help him ... Read more...
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GM finally back in the black, IPO expected soon
May 18th, 2010 - 9:07 pm ICT by Aishwarya Bhatt
Washington DC, May 18 (THAINDIAN NEWS) General Motors reported that it made a profit of $865 million, the first time the company has had a profitable quarter since 2007. It is a ... Read more...
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GM Back In The Black; Pulls In Huge Profit Figures Of $865 Million
May 18th, 2010 - 7:11 pm ICT by GD
By Ranjan Bhaduri
New York, May 18 (THAINDIAN NEWS) General Motors is back on the tracks once again which seems to be a positive sign for the allround growth of the American automobile ... Read more...
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UBI IPO subscribed 32.92 times
February 25th, 2010 - 8:08 pm ICT by IANS
Kolkata, Feb 25 (IANS) The initial public offer (IPO) of public sector bank United Bank of India (UBI), which closed Thursday, has received overwhelming response being subscribed 32.92 times.
"We have received good ... Read more...
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IPO of Coal India expected by August
February 20th, 2010 - 1:35 pm ICT by IANS
Kolkata, Feb 20 (IANS) Coal India Ltd (CIL) is expected to come out with its Initial Public Offer (IPO) of shares by August, a company official said.
"We discussed the tentative timeline with ... Read more...
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Adhunik Metaliks’ arm plans IPO
February 11th, 2010 - 10:46 pm ICT by IANS
Kolkata, Feb 11 (IANS) Adhunik Corp Ltd, an arm of Adhunik Metaliks Ltd, is planning an initial public offering of shares to finance the second phase of its planned cement and steel ... Read more...
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Heavy Engineering union wants first IPO for employees
February 2nd, 2010 - 8:11 pm ICT by IANS
Ranchi, Feb 2 (IANS) The trade union of Heavy Engineering Corporation (HEC) Tuesday demanded that the first Initial Public Offer (IPO) of the company be restricted only for the employees.
"We are not ... Read more...
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Oil India to start drilling in Libya from October
September 2nd, 2009 - 10:30 pm ICT by IANS
Kolkata, Sep 2 (IANS) State-run energy explorer Oil India Ltd (OIL) will start drilling oil blocks in Libya from October for exploring an estimated two trillion cubic metres of reserves, a top ... Read more...
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National Hydroelectric Power IPO oversubscribed seven times
August 7th, 2009 - 9:30 pm ICT by IANS
Mumbai, Aug 7 (IANS) State-run National Hydroelectric Power Corp's (NHPC) initial public offer (IPO) was oversubscribed a little over seven times, according to the data available with the National Stock Exchange (NSE) ... Read more...
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Air India targets profitability within 24 to 36 months
August 7th, 2009 - 8:13 pm ICT by ANI
New Delhi, Aug. 7 (ANI): Air India on Friday came out with numerous revival programs that would see the airline return to profitability within the next 24 to 36 months.Addressing the media ... Read more...
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Mahindra Holidays may delay initial public offer
May 15th, 2009 - 4:36 pm ICT by IANS
New Delhi, May 15 (IANS) With the market in "the most unstable phase", Mahindra Holidays and Resorts, a part of the Mahindra group, will enter the primary market only after the equities ... Read more...
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