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Business - Analyses & Assessments - Jul 18, 2018
Microsoft and Walmart Collaborate
Walmart and Microsoft have partnered up Tuesday for a wider use of cloud and artificial intelligence (AI) technology to improve online shopping experience. Microsoft Corporation is an American…
Business - Analyses & Assessments - Jul 18, 2018
Amazon Crashes on Prime Day
Amazon experienced periodic disruptions on Monday afternoon with the launch of one of its biggest online sales. Users resorted to social media to express their outrage. Amazon is an American…
Business - Analyses & Assessments - Jul 17, 2018
Boeing’s Tariff Concerns
American aerospace and defense giant Boeing is concerned that the trade dispute between the world’s two biggest economies will affect global economic growth. The United States and China are two of…
Business - Analyses & Assessments - Jun 29, 2018
Amazon shakes healthcare business
Amazon said it is buying online pharmacy PillPack for an undisclosed sum. In January, Amazon announced a partnership with J.P. Morgan and Berkshire Hathaway..
Business - Analyses & Assessments - Jun 29, 2018
Euro Summit 2018
Member states of the European Union (EU) engaged in talks which lasted through the night during the Euro Summit on 28th June. Important topics for deliberation includes the refugee crisis, Brexit,…
Business - Analyses & Assessments - Jun 29, 2018
Deutsche Bank Fails Stress Test
In the second round of the Federal Reserve's annual two-stage stress tests, designed to assess how well the sector could withstand another financial crisis..
Business - Analyses & Assessments - Jun 23, 2018
Air India unveils revamp
State-run Air India will revamp its business to try to boost revenues by wooing more high-paying passengers. This comes days after a plan to privatize the ailing airline..
Business - Analyses & Assessments - Jun 20, 2018
Microsoft employees protest work with ICE
In an open letter posted to Microsoft’s internal message board, more than 100 employees protested the software maker’s work with Immigration and Customs Enforcement..
Business - Analyses & Assessments - Jun 20, 2018
General Electric Dow-ner
After over a century, General Electric is the last original member to be dropped from the Dow Jones Industrial Average on 19th June. The spot on the blue-chip index was replaced..
Business - Analyses & Assessments - Jun 19, 2018
KPMG's audit work unacceptable
Professional services firm KPMG’s audits had shown an "unacceptable deterioration" and will be subject to closer supervision, the Financial Reporting Council said..
Business - Analyses & Assessments - Jun 18, 2018
Theranos
Elizabeth Holmes, the founder of US start-up, Theranos, who promised to revolutionize blood testing has been hit with criminal charges. Theranos' former president Ramesh..
Business - Analyses & Assessments - Jun 15, 2018
China approves Qualcomm-NXP deal
Chinese regulators have approved US semiconductor company Qualcomm’s proposed US$44 billion acquisition of Dutch chip maker NXP Semiconductors..
Business - Analyses & Assessments - May 24, 2018
Vedanta project paused after protests
Multinational metals and mining company Vedanta Resources has been asked to pause its expansion project and temporarily shut down its copper smelter in southern..
Business - Analyses & Assessments - Feb 7, 2018
Social Business
The role of microcredit in building entrepreneurship for poverty elevation The Synergia Forum, in February 2017, saw the coming together of people from all walks of life..
Business - Analyses & Assessments - Feb 7, 2018
The Future of the Manufacturing Industry
In December 2017, key stake holders from industry, media and government met at the Synergia Forum to discuss the future of the manufacturing industry. The round table was..
Business - Analyses & Assessments - Feb 2, 2018
The trillion-dollar company?
Apple shares have risen to an all-time high, opening up 3.5 percent. Analysts now believe that the Apple could soon become the first trillion-dollar company. Apple Inc. is one of the most successful..
Business - Analyses & Assessments - May 2, 2017
Tax Cut in USA
The proposal consists of two reforms; individual reforms and business reform. The individual reform focuses on reducing the 7 tax brackets used to determine income tax of an individual into 3 tax…
Business - Analyses & Assessments - Apr 27, 2017
Renegotiation of NAFTA
Reports on 27th April, 2017 said that President Donald Trump of the United States was planning to withdraw the US from the NAFTA (North American Free Trade Treaty) which is an agreement signed…
Business - Analyses & Assessments - Apr 27, 2017
Currency Manipulation
By April 15th, the American Treasury Department was required to present Congress a report on the exchange rate policies of the country’s major trading partners intending to identify those countries…
Business - Analyses & Assessments - Apr 26, 2017
Mission Parivaar Vikas:
Health Ministry of India’s “Mission Parivaar Vikas” (MPV) in 145 High Focus districts (of UP, Bihar, Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh, Chhattisgarh, Jharkhand and Assam) was rolled out in September 2016.