Date : 18th May, 2008
1. Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) is planning to launch three satellites for Direct to Home (DTH) television market.
2. There are about 10 million DTH subscribers in India at present.
3. Doordarshan, Dish TV, Tata Sky and SunTV Network Ltd. are the DTH providers in India.
4. Doordarshan is government owned; Dish TV is owned by Zee group; SunTV is dominant in South India; Tata Sky is being promoted by Tata Sons Ltd and Star India.
5. Anil Ambani led Reliance and Bharti is planning to enter into the DTH market.
6. DTH business is estimated to grow by 40% per year in the next 10 years.
7. For the fiscal year 2007-08, Steel Authority of India (SAIL) had annual sales of Rs.45, 555.34 crore.
8. SAIL’s profit for the fiscal year 2007-08 rose by 21.52 %.
9. BRIC countries have decided to work together to fight global food crisis.
10. BRIC accounts for over one-tenth of world’s GDP.
11. Goldman Sachs had coined the term BRIC.
12. Russia is the second largest oil exporter of the world and China is the second largest oil importer of the world.
13. About 40 % of the world’s population is confined in the BRIC countries.
14. Brazil, Russia, India and China constitute BRIC.
15. Hewlet Packard (HP) will buy Electronic Data Systems corp. (EDS) for $12.6 billion.
16. HP will pay EDS $ 25 per share.
17. This will be the second largest acquisition for HP after Compaq which it acquired 6 years back for $ 20 billion.
18. Acquisition of EDS will help HP to take on IBM and also to increase its share in the global service business.
19. The global service business is growing very rapidly and is valued to be worth $748 billion according to Gartner.
20. In the global service business IBM is the market leader having revenue of $ 54 billion, followed by EDS which has revenue of $22 billion and HP which has revenue of $16.6 billion according to 2007 data.
21. According to the Wall Street Journal Research In Motion (RIM), which manufactures BlackBerry, has decided to launch touch-screen mobile phone to counter Apple’s iPhone.
22. The phone will be known as Thunder.
23. In US Thunder will be sold by Verizon and outside US it will be sold by Vodafone.
24. About 50 new BPO centers will be opened in rural India.
25. These new rural BPO centers will be opened in the states of Tamil Nadu and Andhra Pradesh.
Website: http://www.ebiz16c.blogspot.com
1. Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) is planning to launch three satellites for Direct to Home (DTH) television market.
2. There are about 10 million DTH subscribers in India at present.
3. Doordarshan, Dish TV, Tata Sky and SunTV Network Ltd. are the DTH providers in India.
4. Doordarshan is government owned; Dish TV is owned by Zee group; SunTV is dominant in South India; Tata Sky is being promoted by Tata Sons Ltd and Star India.
5. Anil Ambani led Reliance and Bharti is planning to enter into the DTH market.
6. DTH business is estimated to grow by 40% per year in the next 10 years.
7. For the fiscal year 2007-08, Steel Authority of India (SAIL) had annual sales of Rs.45, 555.34 crore.
8. SAIL’s profit for the fiscal year 2007-08 rose by 21.52 %.
9. BRIC countries have decided to work together to fight global food crisis.
10. BRIC accounts for over one-tenth of world’s GDP.
11. Goldman Sachs had coined the term BRIC.
12. Russia is the second largest oil exporter of the world and China is the second largest oil importer of the world.
13. About 40 % of the world’s population is confined in the BRIC countries.
14. Brazil, Russia, India and China constitute BRIC.
15. Hewlet Packard (HP) will buy Electronic Data Systems corp. (EDS) for $12.6 billion.
16. HP will pay EDS $ 25 per share.
17. This will be the second largest acquisition for HP after Compaq which it acquired 6 years back for $ 20 billion.
18. Acquisition of EDS will help HP to take on IBM and also to increase its share in the global service business.
19. The global service business is growing very rapidly and is valued to be worth $748 billion according to Gartner.
20. In the global service business IBM is the market leader having revenue of $ 54 billion, followed by EDS which has revenue of $22 billion and HP which has revenue of $16.6 billion according to 2007 data.
21. According to the Wall Street Journal Research In Motion (RIM), which manufactures BlackBerry, has decided to launch touch-screen mobile phone to counter Apple’s iPhone.
22. The phone will be known as Thunder.
23. In US Thunder will be sold by Verizon and outside US it will be sold by Vodafone.
24. About 50 new BPO centers will be opened in rural India.
25. These new rural BPO centers will be opened in the states of Tamil Nadu and Andhra Pradesh.
Website: http://www.ebiz16c.blogspot.com
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