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Ratan Tata farewell letter asks for dedication from staff, says difficult environment just a passing phase – Umesh Shanmugam

As he exits India’s leading business conglomerate, Tata group Chairman Ratan Tata today said India’s difficult economic environment will most likely continue in the next year but its growth will be reestablished after the present ‘passing phase’. Tata, who turned 75 today and retired after half-a-century run in the organisation, 21 years of it as …

Iron ore prices hit eight-month high – Umesh Shanmugam

Iron ore prices hit an eight-month high on Thursday, prompting one of the world’s biggest miners of the commodity to announce it would resume the multibillion dollar expansion it put on hold in September when prices crashed. Fortescue Metals Group, the Australian miner founded by billionaire Andrew Forrest, said the company would resume work to …

DANIELI targets Indian steel market

    Sanat Kumar Bhaumik a first class mechanical engineering graduate from Bengal Engineering College, Shibpur, University of Calcutta with MBA from All India Management Association, New Delhi has more than 37 years of total experience in MECON Limited, Wean United Inc., Siemens VAI Metals Technologies and Danieli India in the areas of design, technology, …

Long Term View Of Gold – Umesh Shanmugam

The shiny yellow rock is like the Sybil of the investment world. It has at least seven personalities. Some see it as an inflation hedge. Others a currency. Some see it as a fear gauge and still others see it as a luxury retail item. So which is it? All of these and then some. …

Mobile Advertising trends that will rule 2013 – Dippak Khurana, Co Founder and Chief Executive Officer, Vserv.mobi

As consumers rapidly adopt the mobile, here are the Top 5 trends that will drive Mobile Advertising and take centre stage in 2013: 1. Smartphone Advertising will evolve to Smart Advertising Advertisers today are adapting their campaigns to the capabilities of smartphones. Also, many of them are only leveraging 1 or 2 smartphone platforms versus …