With a population of 1.2 billion people, India has a lot of mouths to feed. A lot of mouths, indeed. India’s total foodgrain production target for 2007-2008 is 221.5 million tonnes, the country’s Minister of State for Agriculture Kanti Lal Bhuria told Rajya Sabha, the Upper House of Parliament on Friday. For pulses, the production […]
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Indian IT services providers Infosys and Wipro are reported to be slugging it out to acquire Bridgewater, New Jersey-based analytics firm MarketRx. According to ET, the valuation of MarketRx is $150 million-$160 million, about five times the start-up’s revenues. The 300-man company, which has offices in the U.S., Europe and India, provides analytics, market research and […]
McGraw Hill has named Deven Sharma president of its tainted financial services division Standard & Poor’s effective immediately. Sharma replaces Kathleen Corbet, who left to “pursue other opportunities”. Sharma was previously executive vice president at Standard & Poor’s with responsibility for Investment Services and Global Sales and before that a partner at management consulting firm […]
Whoa, the battle in the digital single lens reflex cameras (DSLR) market sure is heating up. Less than a fortnight after Canon and Nikon unveiled new DSLR cameras, Panasonic on Thursday rolled out a new 10 megapixel digital SLR camera – DMC-L10. The second DSLR camera in Panasonic’s portfolio, the DMC-L10 offers a 10.1 megapixel Live […]
Microsoft is putting out the first service pack of its Windows Vista operating system in the first quarter of 2008. Service packs are a collection of bug fixes and improvements that Microsoft puts out for major programs such as its operating systems. Besides the bunch of updates the company has previously released, SP1 is supposed […]