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Yahoo buys Tumblr for $1.1 billion: Who is Tumblr founder David Karp?
May 20, 2013 at 09:55 | Source: FirstPost
Yahoo Incs board has approved a deal to buy blogging and social networking site Tumblr for $1.1 billion in cash, the Wall Street Journal reported on Sunday.This is probably one of Marissa Mayer's biggest acquisitions since she took over Yahoo. Accord...
‘She’ can be the secret ballot
Apr 29, 2013 at 22:02 | Source: The Hindu BusinessLine
The current effort by political parties to bring more women into the political process through reservations and quotas in Parliament and panchayats is only one part of a national project to make woman an important stakeholder in India’s democr...
Apr 03, 2013 at 23:07 | Source: The Hindu BusinessLine
Scooters are outrunning motorbikes on city roads as riders these days prefer the former. The Society of Indian Automobile Manufacturers said in a statement that scooter sales in India had grown by about 24.55 per cent, with 841 more units being manu...
Two new Vespas this year, LCVs too
Mar 14, 2013 at 05:57 | Source: Financial Express
Piaggio Vehicles (PVPL), a 100% subsidiary of Italian-based Piaggio Co, plans to launch two new gearless scooters from the Vespa range this year. It plans to get a new variant of Vespa in two-three months and a new sporty version by end of the calen...
Piaggio rolls out three multi-fuel Ape variants
Mar 13, 2013 at 12:47 | Source: The Hindu BusinessLine
Mumbai, Mar 12: Piaggio Vehicles, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Italy’s Piaggio CSpA, will launch two small commercial vehicles by March-end. It expects to export about 50,000 units of its new three-wheeler. “We are coming out with two ne...
Review: Special 26 is an intelligent thriller
Feb 09, 2013 at 20:06 | Source: DNA India
Film: Special 26Director: Neeraj PandeyCast: Akshay Kumar, Manoj Bajpayee, Anupam Kher, Jimmy Sheirgil, Rajesh Sharma, Kishore Kadam, Divya Dutta and Kajal AggarwalRating: **** Not many of us would ve been willing to bet on Akshay Kumar s acting prow...
India turns two-wheeler hub for the world
Feb 07, 2013 at 21:11 | Source: The Hindu BusinessLine
When Stefan Pierer told me during a recent visit to India that the motorcycle market in Europe had crashed by nearly 50 per cent over the last few years, my jaw literally dropped.“Well, everyone is so focused on cars that they forget that bike...
'My view has always been I don't care about the top line'
Jan 30, 2013 at 08:41 | Source: Business Today
Infosys co-founder N.R. Narayana Murthy Infosys co-founder N.R. Narayana Murthy, 66, has done it all - bootstrapping an enterprise with what is loose change today, going on sales calls riding pillion on a Vespa scooter, walking away from a GE deal b...
Jan 13, 2013 at 01:12 | Source: The Hindu BusinessLine
When we recommended a ‘buy’ on Hero MotoCorp at Rs 2,084 in July 2012, we expected the company to benefit from a shift in customer preferences towards entry-level bikes amidst a slowdown in two-wheeler sales. After all, persistent inflati...
Dec 21, 2012 at 11:12 | Source: The Hindu BusinessLine
Do women rule buying in India, or men? - P. Shashwat Reddy, Mumbai Shashwat, this differs from category to category. At the macro level, however, in terms of value of spend, women control 58 per cent of all expenditure. The woman surely wears the pa...
Dec 06, 2012 at 00:51 | Source: Business Standard
Italian two-wheeler maker Piaggio is gearing up to launch its next line of products, including superbikes and cruisers, in India after the success of the Vespa brand, launched a few months ago. The European brand, which has carved out a space in the ...
Standard Poor's downgrades Vespa maker Piaggio
Dec 01, 2012 at 06:11 | Source: Economic Times
MILAN: Standard & Poor's has downgraded Italy's Piaggio, the maker of the Vespa scooter, to three notches below investment grade, citing the impact of weak economic conditions in Europe. In a statement on Friday, the ratings agency said it had lower...
Nov 21, 2012 at 22:32 | Source: The Hindu BusinessLine
Hyderabad, Nov. 21: Piaggio plans to expand its Vespa brand showrooms in the country and in Andhra Pradesh. It plans to scale up the network to about 10 showrooms in the State from five now. The State has five showrooms, including three in Hyderabad...
Oct 02, 2012 at 21:01 | Source: The Hindu BusinessLine
New Delhi, Oct 2: Piaggio India is all set to launch its first TV commercial for its two-wheeler offering ‘Vespa’. The ad aims at echoing the point that Vespa is not just a mode of transportation, but an individual style statement. ̶...
Aug 06, 2012 at 19:12 | Source: Business Standard
Buoyed by good response to its Vespa brand in India, Italian two-wheeler maker Piaggio is planning to launch a mass market scooter by the end of 2013. The company's Indian arm, Piaggio Vehicles Private Ltd (India) is also currently investing Rs 150 c...
Piaggio to launch mass market scooter in India by end of 2013
Aug 06, 2012 at 19:12 | Source: The Hindu BusinessLine
Buoyed by a good response to its Vespa brand in India, Italian two-wheeler maker Piaggio is planning to launch a mass market scooter by the end of 2013. The company’s Indian arm, Piaggio Vehicles Private Ltd (India) is also currently investing...
Piaggio to launch mass market scooter in India by end of 2013
Aug 06, 2012 at 16:06 | Source: Business Today
Tweet Buoyed by good response to its Vespa brand in India , Italian two-wheeler maker Piaggio is planning to launch a mass market scooter by the end of 2013.The company's Indian arm, Piaggio Vehicles Private Ltd (India) is also currently investing R...
The mystique of a global brand
Jul 16, 2012 at 12:27 | Source: The Hindu BusinessLine
There was a time when owning a scooter was an indication of some social standing. When everything was in short supply, possessing a scooter was no mean achievement. Later, with rising levels of income, scooters became passé, and made way for the Ma...
Can premium Vespa swing it with the new-gen?
Jul 01, 2012 at 22:42 | Source: The Hindu BusinessLine
July 1, 2012: Mr Ravi Chopra is delighted with the market response to the recently-launched Vespa. “So far, there have been 2,000 bookings and around 30,000 enquiries. Over 3,000 Vespas are already on the roads,” the Chairman and Managin...
The gearless scooter revolution
Jul 01, 2012 at 22:42 | Source: The Hindu BusinessLine
July 1, 2012: India’s scooter market has been through some interesting ups and downs. At one point, Bajaj Auto was the monarch of all it surveyed with the geared scooter for many years. Piaggio was among its key rivals then through its allianc...
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