Top automotive component makers want to diversify to new markets.

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Skoda wants to accept bookings for a few variants of the Fabia, a hatchback, only online and not through its dealerships. Skoda has three other cars in the market &ndash; the Octavia, Laura and Superb &ndash; but it is the Fabia that can drive volumes for the Czech automobile maker. (It plans to launch the Yeti, a sports utility vehicle, soon.

Skoda: Online move

Dell&rsquo;s acquisition of Perot System for $3.9 billion is being seen by most analysts as a strategic call. This will give Dell an enlarged footprint. Both the companies will get a chance to diversify. Of course, it will make Dell a service powerhouse &ndash; globally and in the country too.

Dell: Dell gets bigger

Growing at the rate of 6-7 per cent annually, the market for aerated drinks in India is primarily dominated by Pepsi and Coke, enjoying a combined share of 95per cent of the market. The market consists of cola products and non-cola products &ndash; of which the cola segment constitutes 62 per cent.

KIT:  Indian Market for Aerated Drinks

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    Identify this university in the US that is named after its founder who used all the fortunes he amassed while in colonial service in India and was the first president of Madras.

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Students from various institutes across the country, including the Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs) and Indian Institutes of Management (IIMs) will come together at the IIM Ahmedabad (IIM-A) campus to churn out ideas to minimise terrorism.

IIMA fair to explore correlation between terrorism and corruption

The Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad (IIM-A)'s annual agri-business summit, Amaethon is set to focus on opportunities arising out of credit availability for agriculture sector, among other things. With the theme of 'Breaking Barriers', Amaethon, the sixth such summit at the institute, will also talk about breaking barriers of age old practices and embracing new technologies for innovations in Agri-business.

IIM-A's Amaethon to focus on credit availability in agri

Ek hi bite me sweet bhi, salty bhi, says the latest television commercial of Parle Products&rsquo; Krackjack. It&rsquo;s a direct potshot at market leader Britannia 50-50&rsquo;s kabhi sweet, kabhi salty proposition.

Krackjack takes on 50-50

Zac has a problem staying fit; he has a paunch and needs to exercise. And there is a queue of people who want to take him out for a walk. They include Mahesh Bhatt, Yuvraj Singh, author Chetan Bhagat and actress and model Gul Panang.

Telecom firms ring in web ambassadors

The Graduate Management Admission Council (GMAC), the association of international graduate business schools and owner of the GMAT exam, has admitted the Indian Institute of Management-Bangalore (IIM-B), as its newest member. The move is expected to increase the institute&rsquo;s participation in policies and decisions involving international business education.

IIM-B to play bigger role in global business education

The Department of Posts may get a fresh lease of life if Jamnalal Institute of Management Studies (JBIMS), Mumbai, has its way. A team of students from the business school has chalked out innovative strategies to revamp the business of India Post, which is the most-widely distributed post office system in the world with more than 155,000 post offices.

B-school chalks out DoP revamp

When Sapna Agarwal graduated from the Indian Institute of Management Bangalore (IIM-B)&rsquo;s prestigious Post Graduate Programme (PGP) in 1993, IBM lapped her up. For the next 15 years, the self-confessed workaholic built her career with some of the best companies including IBM, Intel, Red Hat and EMC. In 2009, however, she gave it all up to join her alma mater IIM-B as head of career development services.

Dream jobs lure IIM alumni back to campuses

After more than a month-long protest and token fasting for a day to protest the (modified) Sixth Pay Commission package, the faculty members of premier Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs) appear to have resigned to implement the new pay structure with a few tweaks.

IITs to accept new pay scheme after Council meet

Now the Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs), too, are seeing positive signs with a number of IT companies wanting to hire more students this year as compared to last year when placements got severely affected by the global slowdown.

Placements pick up at IITs

For Maruti Suzuki SX4, the fireworks will begin just after Diwali. That is when the &ldquo;man&rdquo; among cars, as the SX4 is called in its ad campaigns, will be back after a short break.

The 'men' will be back soon

Just a decade back, Yahoo! upstaged internet (primarily search) brands like Altavista, Excite and Northern Light to almost become a household name in cyberspace. And when Yahoo! co-founder Jerry Yang launched Yahoo! in India, he invited veteran Bollywood actor Shammi Kapoor (who shouted &lsquo;Yahoooo&rsquo; in the picture &lsquo;Junglee&rsquo;) to launch the site.

The power of you

Unless you had head in a cloud of opium smoke the last couple of days, you must know that Obama won the Nobel Peace Prize. Now you may be pro the decision to bestow the honour that Mahatma Gandhi was nominated five times for but never won, to a guy who is fighting two wars (okay so he inherited those, but still I don&rsquo;t see anyone taking their fingers of the trigger, do you?). You may be anti the decision. You may be, like, wthhh (what the hell happened here)? Or perhaps you just don&rsquo;t give a monkey&rsquo;s derriere about the whole darned tootin affair.

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