Facebook names LinkedIn exec Susan Taylor as accounting chief
Facebook Inc said on Tuesday it appointed LinkedIn executive Susan Taylor as chief accounting officer, effective April 17.Taylor, 48, comes in place of Jas Athwal who resigned as chief accounting officer last year.Taylor is presently the vice president, controller, and chief accounting officer of Microsoft Corp’s LinkedIn Corp. She will resign from the professional social […]
Manchester United's Ibrahimovic strikes twice to win League Cup
Manchester United’s Zlatan Ibrahimovic proved his hunger for silverware has not diminished with age as the Swede’s double earned a 3-2 win over Southampton in an absorbing League Cup final at Wembley on Sunday.After a stirring Saints fightback revived memories of their shock 1976 FA Cup final victory over United and with extra time looming, […]
Congratulations ladies, it’ll take you just 170 more years to get pay parity
Women continue to be underrepresented at all career levels and job providers are not building enough future female talent pipelines, a joint study conducted by the World Economic Forum and consultancy firm Mercer has found. The report, titled ‘Our When Women Thrive, Businesses Thrive’, says that despite an increasing number of women being given leadership […]
India works on formula to regulate iron ore prices – steel secretary on TV
NEW DELHI – India is working on a formulathat might act like a cap on iron ore prices, the country’ssteel secretary Aruna Sharma told CNBC TV18 on Wednesday. “There needs to be some sharing of the profits. We areworking on the end-formula, and maybe we will come up with thelogic very soon,” Sharma said. The […]
Mitchell Marsh out of India tour with shoulder injury
All-rounder Mitchell Marsh has been ruled out of Australia’s remaining two Tests in India with a shoulder injury and will return home, the country’s cricket board said on Wednesday. “Mitchell has been playing with a shoulder injury for most of the summer, which we have been managing up until now, but it has progressively deteriorated […]
Lehmann, Sutherland dismiss Kohli's allegations
Bengaluru: Australia coach Darren Lehmann on Wednesday trashed India skipper Virat Kohli’s allegations on the visitors taking directions from the dressing room on the usage of Decision Review System (DRS), saying that the Kangaroos have played the game in the right spirit. Lehmann said he was surprised to hear Kohli’s accusations after the hosts levelled […]
Jadeja joins Ashwin as No. 1 Test bowler, Kohli slips to third
Dubai: India’s Ravichandran Ashwin and Ravindra Jadeja on Wednesday became the first pair of spinners to be jointly top-ranked in the International Cricket Council rankings for Test bowlers while a poor outing in the first two Tests against Australia have pulled India skipper Virat Kohli down a rung to third among the batsmen. Jadeja’s seven […]
India eves to open ICC WC campaign against England on June 24
India will open their ICC Women’s World Cup 2017 campaign against hosts England on June 24 in Derby, while powerhouse New Zealand faces qualifier Sri Lanka in Bristol on the same day, the International Cricket Council announced on Wednesday. The ICC revealed the full schedule for the tournament that will comprise of 28 matches to […]
OPPO buys Team India sponsorship rights for Rs 1,079 crore
Mumbai: The Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) on Tuesday named OPPO Mobiles India Private Limited as the new team sponsor for the national team. “The mobile manufacturing giant OPPO’s association with BCCI will start from April 2017 for a period of five years,” the BCCI said in a statement. OPPO takes the […]
Avenue Supermarts IPO evokes good response
The IPO from Avenue Supermarts, the company which runs the D-Mart chain of food and grocery supermarkets, opened for subscription this morning, and has evoked fairly good response so far, having received bids for 0.58 times of the issue size.Total issue size is 44.3 million shares. Out of total bids for nearly 26 million shares […]
