Ranbaxy Laboratories Ltd, a leading pharmaceutical major, has announced that it has clinched an exclusive licensing pact with US-based BioPro Pharmaceutical to market Gliadel tablets in India.
Earlier, Ranbaxy had announced a similar agreement with CD Pharma, a leading Europe-based biotech firm to sell its probiotic dental medicine Inersan in India and Nepal.
It has been revealed by the Japanese electronics conglomerate, Hitachi that it will produce Solid State Drives (SSD) jointly with chipmaker Intel. SSDs are memory devices that are figured as a nice alternative for HDDs (Hard Disk Drives). Hitachi, the world's third largest hard drive maker has never used the SSD technology before. Since the SSDs are capable of absorbing shocks better and consume less power than hard disk drives, they are mainly used in laptop PCs. The features of SSDs are quite vital for any laptop user.
Late on Tuesday, an old item from the support site of Apple, that suggested Mac users to use multiple antivirus utilities was removed by the company. Apple maintain that Mac is safe "out of the box."
It was reported by Apple spokesperson Bill Evans that they have removed the KnowledgeBase article because it was old and inaccurate.
Jamshedpur Utilities & Services Company Ltd (Jusco), a wholly owned subsidiary of Tata Steel, has secured Rs 152-crore water management contract for Mysore city.
The pact to this effect was signed on Tuesday between Jamshedpur Utilities, Mysore City Corporation and Karnataka Urban Water Supply & Drainage Board.
The project, to be executed in three phases over a period of six years, will utilize the already sanctioned JNNURM fund (80 % of the project cost) for improving the water supply infrastructure in Mysore city.
While the rest of funding will be provided equally by the Karnataka Government and Mysore City Corporation.
Essel Group's multi-purpose prepaid cash card provider ItzCash has plans to spread its footprints in rural markets in the country by next year.
The firm intends to open another 50,000 exclusive outlets in rural areas next year under the brand name 'ItzCash Point' and 'ItzCash World', besides opening franchisee network up to 12,000.
The company would setup about 1,000 franchisees in South India alone. At present, the company has one lakh outlets and around 10,000 franchisees in India.
According to sources, all upcoming new outlets will be set up in tier-III cities and villages.