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Snapdeal Will Pip Flipkart as India's Top Online Retailer by March 2016: Kunal Bahl

Snapdeal's challenge to Flipkart indicates an intensifying rivalry to dominate the fast growing e-commerce sector in the country.

Aug 31, 2015

Infosys to Build 3 More Campuses in Bengaluru, Create 27,000 Jobs: Karnataka CM Siddaramaiah

The three projects were approved at a meeting of the State High Level Clearance Committee (SHLCC) on Saturday

Aug 31, 2015

Cognizant Irked With TCS for Preponing Campus Recruitment: Report

"We are doing what we have done in the past," says a TCS spokesperson.

Aug 31, 2015

A Third of BSE 500 Stocks Now Trade at Manmohan Era Levels

Stock prices of over 10% of companies in the index have now been reduced to half in the past 15 months.

Aug 31, 2015

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Pentagon teams up with Apple and Boeing to develop wearable tech

US Defence Secretary Ash Carter awarded $75m (£48.7m) on 28 August, to help a consortium of high-tech firms and researchers develop electronic systems packed with sensors flexible enough to be worn by soldiers or moulded onto the skin of a plane.

Aug 29, 2015

Crude Oil Prices 'Unlikely to Repeat' Rally Witnessed During Jan-April This Year: Commerzbank

Prices went up to as high as $70 per barrel during those months, rebounding by 50% from a low of $46

Aug 28, 2015

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McDonalds and Tyson Foods drop farm after video shows animal cruelty

McDonalds and Tyson Foods both severed ties with a Tennessee farm on 27 August, after an undercover video shot by animal rights activists was released that shows purported farm employees stabbing, clubbing and stomping on chickens.

Aug 28, 2015

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Greenpeace activists drop massive banana peel on Amsterdam Shell Tech centre

The organisation called for a boycott of Shell in the Netherlands.

Aug 28, 2015

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Tokyo: Children dream up the future of cars

Children from all over the world gathered at Toyota’s annual Dream Car Art Contest at Tokyos bay side on 26 August, to share ideas and drawings on the future of cars.

Aug 27, 2015