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TECHNOLOGY: An ‘ARM’ed laptop? IT’s on the way!
Bangalore, Nov. 19 With ARM’s processor cores fuelling 10 billion devices around the world - and growing at 90 new ones every second - one would think the Cambridge, UK-based chip design leader would consolidate rather than expand. But ...

FINANCIAL MARKETS: Hotel sector feeling the slowdown heat
20-30% additional room capacity plan to be deferred. Mumbai, Nov. 18 The heat of global economic meltdown is being felt by upcoming hotel projects in India. Some of these ventures are likely to be delayed or put on ...

ESOPS: Issues in share-based payments
India soon needs a more detailed and comprehensive literature on share-based payment transactions, urges Mr Kamal Agarwal, a Senior Professional in a member firm of Ernst & Young ...

OVERSEAS BORROWINGS: Naturally edgy
Reliance Industries Ltd (RIL) perhaps would be one of the few Indian enterprises that would not mind India’s foreign currency transactions being predominantly designated in dollars because the debt service obligations emanating out of ...

EXPORTS & IMPORTS: DGFT effects partial relaxation of ban on non-basmati rice exports
New Delhi, Nov. 19 The Director General of Foreign Trade (DGFT) notified late Tuesday night a partial relaxation of ban on the export of non-basmati rice in favour of two 100 per cent export-oriented units (EOUs) each in Pondciherry and ...

GENERAL INSURANCE: Oriental Insurance trims underwriting losses
’Detariffing has resulted in premium cuts, lower profitability’. Chennai, Nov. 19 Oriental Insurance is the only public insurer to have reduced its underwriting losses to Rs 670 crore in 2007-08 when other public players’ ...

FINANCIAL MARKETS: Slowdown woes hit plastics industry
Units cut production, seek sops. Mumbai, Nov. 19 The economic slowdown has tamed domestic demand of plastic products, which has severely bruised the Rs 25,000-crore ...

HEALTH: Wockhardt can now take in insured US patients
Ties up with Companion Global Healthcare. If there is one domestic sector that may not have to worry about the global downturn, it could be the healthcare ...





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