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February car sales: Honda reports 23% fall in domestic sales

The company sold 13,020 units in Feb.2016 as compared to 16,902 units in Feb.2015.

Mar 1, 2016

February auto sales: Renault India car sales up 158%, driven by Kwid

The company sold 8,834 units in February 2016 in India as against 3419 units in February last year.

Mar 1, 2016

Jet Airways to shift domestic ops to Mumbai airport's T2 terminal

The move would integrate the airline's domestic and international operations and reduce time and cut costs.

Mar 1, 2016

Feb. passenger car sales: Mahindra sees 26% growth; Hyundai records 9% rise

The company said that the increase in infrastructure cess in the Budget would "increase the prices of automative products immediately."

Mar 1, 2016

Walmart, Tesco to benefit from 100% FDI in multi-brand processed food retailing

The companies will need to get clearance from the Foreign Investment Promotion Board to own 100 percent stake in a business.

Mar 1, 2016

Yahoo says may write down goodwill value of Tumblr

Yahoo said earlier in the month it took a $230 million impairment charge related to Tumblr.

Mar 1, 2016

Red faces, raised voices over late hitch in Foxconn's Sharp deal

Foxconn had asked Sharp to delay voting on a deal as it had just received "new information" from Sharp that it needed to clarify.

Mar 1, 2016

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Mark Zuckerberg: No place for migrant hate speech on Facebook

Facebooks Mark Zuckerberg said that he understood the need to stamp out hate speech against migrants on the worlds biggest social network, and that the networks privacy policies would be changed. The move follows a charm offensive in Germany, where the company he co-founded has faced criticism for months from politicians and regulators over its privacy practices and a slow response to anti-immigrant postings by neo-Nazi sympathisers.

Feb 26, 2016

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Zika virus: Bill Gates says response better than for Ebola

The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation has turned its attention to the Zika virus outbreak, and its founders said the response to the crisis, which appears to be linked to devastating birth defects in South America, has been better than for the 2014 Ebola outbreak in Africa.

Feb 23, 2016

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Zika virus: FDA recommends ban on blood collections from affected areas

The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has recommended that blood no longer be collected from regions where the Zika virus is circulating, and that blood needed for transfusions be obtained from areas of the United States without active transmission. The agency said blood banks can continue collecting and preparing platelets and plasma if an FDA-approved pathogen-reduction technology is used. Current pathogen-reduction technology is not approved to treat whole red blood.

Feb 17, 2016