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India
Ford inks Rs 800-cr Chennai office deal for tech hub
US automaker Ford Motors has inked a deal to build a new 2 million sqft office for its global shared services business in Chennai entailing a little over '800 crore investment, people directly familiar with the matter said.
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India
Mobile phone @251 rings in disbelief
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India
India turns experimenting ground for tech disruptors
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Giappone
Nikkei surges 360 points on resurgent oil
Stocks rebounded sharply on the Tokyo Stock Exchange on Thursday, boosted by purchases on the back of a rise in crude oil prices and strong Asian stocks. The Nikkei average jumped 360.44 points, or 2.28 percent, to end at 16,196.80. On Wednesday, it slumped 218.07 points. The Topix closed up ...
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Giappone
Toyota recalling 2.9 million vehicles globally over severed RAV4 seatbelts
Toyota Motor Corp. said on Thursday it is conducting a global recall of 2.87 million vehicles due to the possibility that their seatbelts could be damaged by a metal seat frame part in the event of a crash. The world’s biggest-selling automaker said that the global recall involves its RAV4 ...
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Giappone
Panasonic to recognize people in same-sex unions
From April, Panasonic Corp. will recognize its employees in same-sex unions, possibly conferring on them the paid leave and other benefits currently enjoyed by married employees, a company official said Thursday. The change in policy was prompted by requests from its employees and the International Olympic Committee’s ban on discrimination ...
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Giappone
New economic minister Ishihara believes recovery underway
Facing reporters in one of his first interviews since being named Economic and Fiscal Policy Minister, Nobuteru Ishihara said Wednesday the economy is making a steady recovery despite recent sharp falls in stock prices and the negative growth logged in the final three months of 2015. “There have been no ...
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Giappone
Sharp considering excluding Foxconn backers from vote
Sharp Corp.’s lawyers are recommending that two board members be excluded from a final vote on competing bailout plans, possibly tipping the balance in favor of a proposal from Innovation Network Corp. of Japan, people with knowledge of the matter said. Masahiro Sumita and Shinichi Saito, supporters of a bid ...
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Giappone
Can you call the stock market? Equity analyst says he can
On the 10th day of every month, Junsuke Senoguchi has just one thing on his mind: the closing level of the Nikkei average. That is because Senoguchi, an unassuming man in his late 40s, has built a machine that has been predicting the direction of Japanese shares, and once a ...
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Giappone
Flies threatening Florida’s fruit industry have been eradicated
A type of fruit fly that all but shut down south Florida’s $1.6 billion agricultural industry when it was discovered in the state last year has been “successfully eradicated,” authorities said Wednesday. Officials quarantined 97 square miles (250 sq. km) of farmland after the invasive pest was found in the ...