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Fast forward on highways

Sun, 04 Apr 2010 21:45:52 +0530

After witnessing sluggish growth in 2008-09, the road sector is all set to be fast-tracked, not just in terms of the number of highways to be built but also in

Talent agents making inroads in burgeoning video games

Sun, 28 Mar 2010 22:21:30 +0530

It happened to the U. S

Trade group lifts outlook for airlines

Thu, 11 Mar 2010 22:11:41 +0530

A leading airline trade group cut its forecast for industry losses this year in half Thursday, because of what it said was a stronger-than-expected economic recovery in emerging markets, especially

US construction machinery export to India jumped 55 %

Fri, 05 Mar 2010 12:04:09 +0530

When exports of construction machinery from the US dropped by more than a third due to the global economic slump in 2009, shipments of such equipment to India jumped up

Bribes let vendor sell tainted tomato products, US says

Thu, 25 Feb 2010 22:21:07 +0530

Robert Watson a top ingredient buyer for Kraft Foods needed $20 000 to pay his taxes. So he called a broker for a California tomato processor that

Atreasure chest of patents reshapes market for ideas

Thu, 18 Feb 2010 21:37:26 +0530

NathanMyhrvold wants to shake up the marketplace for ideas. His mission and the activities of the company he heads Intellectual Ventures a secretive $5 billion investment firm

Trade shows battle vendors who lurk at edges

Tue, 16 Feb 2010 22:49:03 +0530

Convention industry insiders disdainfully call them ‘‘outboarders’’ — vendors who set up shop in a hotel suite near a trade show site to promote their products.

At auto gathering, a study in contrasts

Mon, 15 Feb 2010 21:59:48 +0530

When U.S. auto dealers gathered a year ago, they wondered whether General Motors and Chrysler would survive.
When thousands of dealers convened for the annual National Automobile Dealers Association convention in Orlando, Florida, over the weekend, it was ‘‘Toyota. Toyota. Toyota.’’ The specter of Toyota, and how it stumbles or recovers from the biggest safety recall in its history, was everywhere, including at news conferences held by its rival automakers.

Low-cost carriers battle giant airlines for space at airports

Tue, 26 Jan 2010 21:07:53 +0530

Virgin America has managed to survive skyrocketing oil prices and an economic crisis since it started in mid-2007 and even hopes to achieve an operating profit this year.
But

Hard times reshape culture at law firms

Mon, 18 Jan 2010 22:30:47 +0530

The first-year corporate lawyers of the new U. S