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Alibaba Rakes Up Record $17.6 Billion On Singles Day Sales

Alibaba Group, the e-commerce giant behind the 24-hour Singles' Day shopping blitz, has raked up a record $17. 6 billion in the Singles Day online sales, creating a new record in global retail sales for any single day.




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Adobe Acquires Video Advertising Platform Tubemogul

Software major Adobe on Friday announced it has acquired video advertising platform TubeMogul for nearly $540 million.




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How is Demonetizing Going to Affect India Inc.?

Government�s decision to ban Rs.500 and Rs.1,000 notes has met with mixed response from India Inc. While some analysts believe that it is good for the long run.




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We'll Touch Rs.100 Cr-Mark In Indian Mobile Accessories Market By 2017: Intex

The Indian mobile accessories market is set to explode owing to the exponential smartphone sales growth and domestic phone maker Intex aims to touch the Rs.100 crore mark.




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PIO-Led Team Develops Solar Nanotech-Powered Clothing

A team led by an Indian-origin scientist in the U.S. has developed filaments that harvest and store the suns energy and can be woven into textiles which can power phones, personal health sensors and other gadgets.




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Tatas, Global Cos Join Hands To Set Up IoT Incubator In Israel

Tata Group has joined hands with General Electric Ventures, Microsoft Ventures and others to set up a new technology incubator in Israel.




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Reliance Group Launches IoT Services Venture 'UNLIMIT'

Anil Ambani promoted Reliance Group on Tuesday announced a strategic partnership with Cisco Jasper for the launch of its new venture 'UNLIMIT' to provide Internet of Things (IoT) services to enterprise customers across India.




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Indian Smartphone Market Crosses 30 Mn Unit Shipments

For the first time, the smartphone market in India crossed the 30 million unit shipments milestone in the third quarter of this year, the International Data Corp (IDC) reported on Tuesday.




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Microsoft Teams Up With Musk's $1 Bn OpenAI Project

In a move to "democratise" artificial intelligence (AI) and making it accessible to everyone, Microsoft has teamed up with OpenAI, a non-profit AI research organisation co-founded by Elon Musk.




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India's October Exports At $23.5 Bn Grow Nearly 10 Pct

Signalling a clear reversal of the earlier continuous decline in Indian exports, official data on Tuesday showed these grew for the second month in a row at $23.51 billion in October.




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Ford To Export India-Made EcoSport To U.S.

In a boost to Prime Minister Narendra Modis 'Make in India' initiative, automaker Ford has decided to export to the U.S. its Ecosport SUVs manufactured at its plantsin Chennai.




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Vodafone Ties Up With Google Cloud

Vodafone Business Services (VBS), the enterprise arm of Vodafone India, on Thursday announced it has tied up with Google Cloud to offer G Suite to bring people together and help them work smarter.




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Air India Incurs Rs.246.14 Crore Loss in April-June Quarter

According to the latest reports, Air India has incurred a loss of Rs.246.14 crore for the April-June quarter.




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Indus OS Partners With Intex Technologies

Multi-lingual domestic operating system brand Indus OS on Friday announced its partnership with Intex Technologies to provide a better experience for users pan-India.




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Reliance Industries, GE To Drive Digital Transformation In Industrial Space

Reliance Industries Limited (RIL) and US global conglomerate GE on Thursday announced a global partnership in the Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) space to boost digital transformation.




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Why MBA has become a necessity nowadays?

No matter from which background you belong to, and what degree you take in your graduation, MBA is one such course which has become a necessity for the students to do. If they don't do it in...




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Education That Fertile Your Future

Gone are the days when graduation degree used to hold great importance. Yes, it does hold importance today, but for applying for a post-graduation program. There is a wide range of post-graduation...




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Reusing waste resource promotes economic development

Industrial residues is misplaced local resources, the best way of handling is to turn them into renewable resources. For example, the industrial residues can be used for the preparing cement raw material and can be used as concrete...




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INDIAN BORN BRITISH POET MAKE WAVES WITH HIS POETRY

 

 

     The last three decades revealed a new phenomenon in the field of English literature. More and more Indian, Chinese and African origin...




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Employees First, Customers Second

One small idea can ignite a revolution just as a single matchstick can start a fire. One such idea - putting employees first and customers second -...




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Bachelor Validation, Finish It in No Time

Here is no doubt that the Internet has changed our lives. Thousands of applications that can be accessed, and the human capacity for his name alone. But most important is...




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The Tricky Homophones!

English is often said to be a confusing language - and when it comes to homophones, we know how that notion came to be!

Homophones,...




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Learn English Speaking the Online Way!

English has become a universal language of communication around the globe. Therefore, learning to speak English fluently is a priority for most people who do not have it as a native language. The...




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Play to Increase Your Vocabulary!

The English language has over 500,000 words! Imagine knowing all these words – what a vibrant vocabulary that person would have! Anyway, it is not possible for a person to know every...




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Interactive Whiteboards Need Of Modern Classrooms

Gone are the days when children used to sit facing those ugly-looking blackboards polluting the classroom with chalk dust. With the change in time, the needs of the students have also changed. Now they need smarter ways to study which...




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E-learning outsourcing Your helping hand

There used to be days when organizations had to rely on orthodox and pretty conventional natured methods for imparting on-job training to their employees. These encompassed a prolonged process...




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About Distance Learning MBA Benefits

Everybody knows that education play important role in every human life. Every people learn from education more things that we use in our general and professional life. But it's only a fundamental education that teaches us how to...




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About MCA Degree and Courses-MCAAdmission

Master of Computer Application is a leading degree in today’s time. It grooms students with high-end expertise in the domain, also, helps them explore new ways to attain the next level of skills in the same line. MCA colleges...




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About the Top IIM Colleges in India

Ongoing change is the law of Nature. The world is not going to be the same as we see it today. The rule of change is also the same for the management world. Hence we need future managers who not only are adapted to the changing scenario...




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Game based learning camouflaging fun with learning

Organisations of the modern era require proper and effective training materials which carry the potential to enhance the skills and knowledge of employees. Proper training systems can...




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LMS elearning enhancing organisational productivity

“Knowledge breeds gallantry”. This saying was propagated by some eminent scholars in the mid 17th century in order to foster realisations regarding the significance of learning. Many people are trapped with illusions...




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Keep Cherished Career with Online Degree Courses in Interested Way

When someone thinks to earn online degree, there are many motives generally running in his/her mind especially about their career. Nowadays, degree online has turned out to be very admired and large...




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US$ 500mn for water, education projects

Asian Development Bank (ADB) and the Government signed the first- tranche of US $ 84 mn under Multi-tranche credit line for the implementation of non revenue water management programme in the Greater Colombo area. The total investment...




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OECD Studies on Tourism - Italy: Review of Issues and Policies

This report sets out the main analysis and recommendations of the tourism policy review of Italy and assesses the current state of tourism performance in Italy.




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Business Innovation Policies: Selected Country Comparisons

This study examines trends in and key features of policies and programmes used by governments to support innovation in the business sector.




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OECD Steel Committee signals growing uncertainty over industry outlook

The outlook for the global steel market has become more uncertain, according to industry and government officials at the OECD’s Steel Committee meeting in Paris on 5-6 2011 . Policies to support open markets for raw materials are key, they said.




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Financing High-Growth Firms: The Role of Angel Investors

This book covers seed stage financing for high-growth companies in OECD and non-OECD countries with a primary focus on angel investment. It provides an overview of angel financing, including a description of how it has evolved and policy interventions taken within some countries.




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A new agenda for the future - 2011 Annual Report on the OECD Guidelines for Multinational Enterprises

The 2011 annual report on the OECD Guidelines for Multinational Enterprises focuses on adhering countries' committment to new, stronger standards of corporate behaviour in the updated OECD Guidelines for Multinational Enterprises.




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Credit crunch squeezing entrepreneurs and small businesses more than big firms

Small and medium-sized businesses (SMEs) requesting loans between 2007 and 2010 faced higher interest rates than for large companies. Loan conditions for SMEs included shortened maturities and increased demands for collateral, suggesting that banks considered smaller firms to be a higher risk.




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G20 countries should rely on open markets to reboot global growth

G20 governments should prevent further deterioration in their collective trade and investment policy stance and focus on promoting open markets to re-boot growth in the world economy, according to the OECD, WTO and UNCTAD.




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Promote entrepreneurship to exit the crisis, OECD says

Start-up rates in most countries are edging back toward their pre-crisis levels, but not all countries have seen significant acceleration in new businesses, according to a new OECD report.




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Gold Supplement to the OECD Due Diligence Guidance

This guidance addresses the unique due diligence challenges posed by gold, such as its intrinsic high-value and fungible nature, the non-linear structure of its supply chain, and its multiple downstream uses.




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Workshop: Indicators of local transition to low-carbon economy (Regional Growth Core Schönefelder Kreuz, Germany)

The Regional Growth Core Schönefelder Kreuz and the Technical University of Applied Sciences Wildau in partnership with the OECD Local Economic and Employment Development Programme (LEED) are working on defining and collecting measurable indicators at the regional/ local level that can inform over time of transition to low-carbon economic and industrial activities.




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Innovation: Economic crisis and weak outlook hit R&D, says OECD

Business spending on research and development has been hit hard by the economic crisis, with nearly all OECD countries seeing a fall in investment which could impact innovation and long-term growth, according to a new OECD report.




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Resurrecting Industrial Policy

Can governments play a positive role in boosting their countries’ industrial sectors? This OECD Observer article investigates.




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High-level seminar on capital flow management and liberalisation: the role of international co-operation

This seminar aimed to advance shared understandings on policies to make the most of cross-border capital flows in support of growth and development and on the value of international co-operation, including the OECD Codes of Liberalisation, in the current context of serious global financial turbulence.




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OECD launches online portal to boost product safety

The OECD has launched an online portal to give consumers, businesses and governments quick and easy access to the latest information on products recalled from the market in Australia, Canada, Europe and the United States.




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Promoting Graduate Entrepreneurship in Tunisian Universities

This report provides the main findings and recommendations of a case study review of entrepreneurship education and business start-up support in Tunisian universities and universities of applied sciences as part of a series of reviews on Skills and Competences for Entrepreneurship carried out by the LEED Programme of the OECD.




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Latin America and Caribbean: Conference on international value chains

This meeting aimed to identify practical policy options for Latin American governments in the formulation of their investment promotion strategies with a specific focus on international value chains.




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OECD and National Human Rights Institutions join forces to promote respect of human rights by multinational companies

07/11/12 - the OECD and the International Coordinating Committee of National Human Rights Institutions concluded a Memorandum of Understanding to promote respect by multinational enterprises of the new human rights chapter of the OECD Guidelines for Multinational Enterprises and the UN Guiding Principles for Business and Human Rights upon which the OECD Guidelines are based.