Menezes, who was promoted as CEO of UK-based Diageo Plc in July last year, was paid total remuneration of 7.77 million British pounds (about Rs 80 crore) in the financial year ended June 30, 2014.<br />
Six years since the global financial crisis spurred a relentless pursuit of yields, Asian stock markets are at record highs, bond yields have tumbled to pre-crisis lows and companies are raising huge amounts of cheap equity and debt.<br />
San Francisco-based JetPac has created a mobile application that uses pictures from various social networking sites to create city guides.<br />
Many among the foreign media were taken up by the access of banking facilities to all along with the Rs one lakh insurance that Modi promised in his speech yesterday. Terming it as a complex goal, the New York Times said that if successful, it "could allow the government to eventually convert subsidies for food, fuel and fertilizer into cash transfers".
Wal-Mart Stores Inc cut its full-year profit forecast, citing higher employee healthcare costs and increased investment in its online business
An array of industries have been coming under the spotlight as China intensifies efforts to bring companies into compliance with its anti-monopoly law enacted in 2008.
According to federal sentencing guidlines, Martoma faces a 15-19 years prison term.<br />
China's economic growth quickened slightly to 7.5 percent in the second quarter - in line with the government's full-year target - from 7.4 percent in the first three months, its weakest pace in 18 months.<br />
The employee survey comes on the heels of recent reports from technology companies Google Inc and Twitter Inc, but it is unique in one significant way. It alone is accompanied by letter from a company CEO
The 58-year-old tech billionaire has vowed to make the team a pillar in the community.
Foreign brands including Jaguar Land Rover, Volkswagen AG's Audi, BMW and Mercedes-Benz are scrambling to lower prices for both new cars and spare parts in an effort to appease Chinese regulators who have accused some of them of anti-competitive behavour.<br />
BuzzFeed will rapidly ramp up its international presence, launching BuzzFeed in Mumbai, Mexico City, Berlin and Tokyo this year.
Sovereign fund Khazanah Nasional, which has controlled the airline for years via a 70 percent ownership stake, said last Friday it plans to buy all remaining shares.
Apple, which helped create the tablet market in 2010 with its first iPad, has seen growth plummet from 2012.
To be named "FASTER," the cable network will have an initial capacity of 60 terabits per second.
Late last month, India torpedoed a deal to simplify, standardize and streamline the rules for shipping goods across borders, know as "trade facilitation", after it demanded concessions on agricultural stockpiling.<br />
According to the BSA anti-piracy lobby group that Microsoft co-founded, emerging markets account for 56 percent of all PCs in use, and 73 percent of software piracy.
The move to de-list Malaysia Airlines from the Malaysian stock exchange is due to the airline's unfavourable financial performance, having recorded a net loss for the past three years.<br />
Front-month September Brent settled at $105.44 on Thursday while the contract for delivery over 12 months ended at $105.47 a barrel, the first time in two years that the spread has inverted, according to Reuters data.<br />
The reduction in the margin - a measure of operating income as a proportion of sales - comes after Adidas said last week it needed to increase investment in a bid to catch up with market leader Nike.<br />
Apple products like iPad and MacBooks were omitted from a final government procurement list distributed in July.<br />
The ECB cut interest rates to record lows in June, became the first major central bank to charge banks for holding their deposits overnight and launched a new ultra-cheap, four-year loan programme, dubbed TLTROs, to be rolled out later this year.<br />
In December 2012, Standard Chartered agreed to pay US authorities $327 million to settle charges it violated American sanctions, principally on Iran but also on Myanmar, Libya and Sudan.<br />
Apple and Samsung have been litigating around the world for three years, each accusing the other of infringing patents in making smartphones and other mobile devices.<br />
"Bomb Gaza," developed by PlayFTW and still available as an app on Facebook, simulates the on-going conflict between Israel and the Islamist group Hamas, which dominates the Palestinian territory.
Four Indians are among Fortune magazine's list of 20 "extraordinary" technology czars and young entrepreneurs analysing data
According to Canalys, Xiaomi sold 15 million smartphones in China during the second quarter, more than a three-fold surge from a year earlier. It surpassed Samsung, which had the leading position in China for more than two years, as well as local brands such as Lenovo and Huawei.<br />
BlackBerry has shrunk its workforce by roughly 60 percent over the last three years as it attempts to reinvent itself. The company that dominated the smartphone market in its infancy has seen its sales dramatically eroded over the last four years
The US Labor Department said LinkedIn failed to record and compensate workers for all hours worked, violating provisions of the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA).<br />