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...Russia’s Sputnik V coronavirus vaccine has an efficacy rate of 97.6 per cent, its developers said, based on data from almost 4m people....
...(FT) Dockwork ers v robots Dockworkers in Los Angeles are making a last stand against the automation of lucrative port jobs....
...Smart reads David v Goliath Large consumer goods companies are starting to feel the impact of their smaller, more innovative rivals....
...Bombarded Day two of the Bombardier v Boeing tariff scandal and attention has turned on the British government’s motivation to fight back against proposed US action against the Canadian company....
...AT&T’s acquisition of Time Warner and Bayer’s purchase of Monsanto) that are still pending approval from the competition watchdog....
...(BBC) Video of the day Google v Apple, round 2 As Google again draws level with Apple as the world’s largest company, John Authers looks at the historic performance of companies once they have become the...
...Recently, their targets have included a growing number of Chinese companies....
...If your company’s app is not among those popular five, what do you do?...
...India has named private sector banker K.V....
...“We do expect faster growth, but it is not a sharp recovery or a ‘V’-shaped recovery....
...comes after a period of tumultuous management change following Mr Murthy’s reappointment as executive chairman, in which a number of senior executives have left the group, including chief financial officer V...
...and India’s treatment of foreign companies ahead of crucial national elections in May....
...However a recent spate of management departures – including the exit in December of V Balakrishnan as chief financial officer, whom many observers had tipped to become the group’s next chief executive –...
...Mr Murthy said K.V. Kamath, then chairman, contacted him on May 4 and asked him to return to “add value” to Infosys, a company he helped to found in 1981 and ran until 2002....
...Mr Murthy said K.V....
...Fears that deeper operational issue may lie behind the weak performance were heightened by the unexpected decision of V Balakrishnan, the group’s finance officer and a two-decade veteran at the group, to...
...But CCD, run by entrepreneur V.G....
...G V Sanjay Reddy, GVK vice-chairman, said: “This positive decision also paves the way to ensure more than 1.4bn people [largely in Asia] that face a major shortage of electricity, are provided with an additional...
...N.V. Tyagarajan, Genpact’s chief executive, said: “We are excited about this transaction, which is hugely positive for all of our shareholders....
...“No regulator now wants to be seen to have caused a loss to the exchequer, because they feel that later on there may be a witch-hunt, or they may be charged with causing a loss,” said Professor V Ranganathan...
...But there was more than a hint of resigned sarcasm in the company’s response to its misfortune. “We continue to have faith in the Indian judicial system,” it said, with an impressively straight face....
...“We had a very difficult quarter with revenues declining sequentially,” said V Balakrishnan, chief financial officer....
...“There has been a reluctance to decide things fast, a reluctance by government agencies to approve things quicker – they have not moved the way they used to,” says V....
...Not exactly Henry V at Agincourt....
...Italy V Ireland....
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