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Big Bazaar - A shopping mall chain in India
Business   India   Photos   Retail  
 The Times Of India 
Open the doors to organised retail
Fri 30 Jul 2010
The story of Indian retail is a complicated one. To put things in perspective, about 40% of the country’s total GDP of $1 trillion comes from retail sales to Indian consumers. The local, one-off cor... (photo: WN / Geeta)
Samsung Mobile phone shop, Pune, India
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 Indian Express 
'Mobile phone sales to rise 19% in India'
Fri 30 Jul 2010
| The Indian telecom story still has a lot of zing left in it. Sale of mobile handsets in India, the world's fastest growing wireless market, should rise by 18.5 percent this year on increasing teleco... (photo: WN / Geeta)
Oil Price - Fuel  The Boston Globe  Fri 30 Jul 2010
Oil giants' profits up on higher fuel prices
| NEW YORK - The major oil companies continue to climb back from the recession, with higher fuel prices driving up earnings. | After setting record profits in 2008, the oil industry tanked last year a... (photo: WN / Sweet Radoc)
Earnings   Fuel   Photos   Prices   Wikipedia: ExxonMobil  
Samsung LCD TV  The Guardian  Fri 30 Jul 2010
Samsung Elec sees weak profit after record Q2
* Q2 op profit 5.0 trln won vs 4.86 trln won street view * Warns of weak margins in H2 on competition * Handset shipments fall to 63.8 mln from Q1 * To pay 5,000 won/shr interim div vs 500 year ago * ... (photo: WN / Yolanda Leyba)
Electronics   Photos   Profit   Smartphone   Wikipedia: Samsung Electronics  
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Das Buerogebaeude der Siemens AG fuer IT Operations und Industrial Services in Erlangen, aufgenommen am Montag, 13. August 2007. The New York Times Fri 30 Jul 2010
Siemens and VW Surge on Roaring Demand From China
| FRANKFURT — Germany continued to show surprising strength Thursday as a drop in unemployment, coupled along with better-than-expected profit at two of the country... (photo: AP / Andreas Beil)
Business   Economy   Germany   Photos   Wikipedia: 2010 European sovereign debt crisis  
British Prime Minister David Cameron speaks during a joint press conference with his Indian counterpart in New Delhi, India, Thursday, July 29, 2010. Gulf News Fri 30 Jul 2010
Indo-British relations have come a full circle
| New Delhi: Indo-British relations have come a full circle. While Indians see British Prime Minister David Cameron's visit to India, with his 90-member delegation, as an... (photo: AP / Saurabh Das)
India   Photos   Politics   UK   Wikipedia: India United Kingdom relations  
In this July 9, 2008 file photo, cars drive away from Boeing Co.'s Everett, Wash. assembly plant. The final request for bids is expected to be released Tuesday, Aug. 26, 2008, by the Pentagon _ which will make clear whether or not Boeing Co. will get its wish for an extensi NZ Herald Fri 30 Jul 2010
Slow airplane deliveries hit Boeing profit
4:00 AM Friday Jul 30, 2010 Email Print | MINNEAPOLIS - Boeing's second-quarter profit fell 21 per cent as airplane deliveries and defence revenue fell. | Its US$787 mill... (photo: AP / Ted S. Warren, file)
Airlines   Boeing   Business   Industry   Photos  
In this April 4, 2005 file photo, a sports utility vehicle drives past an ExxonMobil refinery in Baytown, Texas. Exxon Mobil Corp., the world's biggest oil refiner, will spend more than $1 billion in the next couple of years to increase its global production of cleaner-burning diesel by about 10 percent, the company said Tuesday, Dec. 16, 2008. The New York Times Fri 30 Jul 2010
Higher Oil Prices Help Exxon Top Forecasts
| The Exxon Mobil Corporation, the world’s largest publicly traded oil company, said Thursday that its nearly doubled to $7.56 billion as oil prices increased from ... (photo: AP / File)
Business   Company   Oil   Photos   Wikipedia: ExxonMobil  
In this Jan. 13, 2009 photo, people walk out from Sony Corp. headquarters in Tokyo, Japan. Sony said Thursday, May 14, 2009, it lost 98.9 billion yen ($1 billion) in the fiscal year through March, its first annual net loss in 14 years, and projected it would lose even more money this year amid a slump in consumer demand for electronics goods The New York Times Fri 30 Jul 2010
Comeback Heralded for Japan Giants in Electronics
| TOKYO — Buoyed by a long-awaited turnaround in its television and video game businesses, Sony said Thursday it swung to a net profit of ¥25.7 billion, or $293... (photo: AP / Itsuo Inouye)
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