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Scotland gives the world its first floating wind farm

The Hywind project has five turbines floating 25 kms off coast of Peterhead, near Aberdeen

Why Big Oil won't reduce India's import dependence

The bulk of the foreign investment is in refineries and retailing, not in discovery and production

Hypermarkets over the counter: Search for scale is forcing consolidation

The coming year, should see some hyper-activity in the organised retail business

Kimbal Musk wants to feed America, Silicon Valley-style

Like a politician on the stump, Musk travels extensively to pound home the message that Americans - especially millennials - are demanding real food

The push for online pay revenues

About a dozen firms are discovering users are willing to pay not just for entertainment, but also for news online

Mentors wanted. Only millennials need apply

Millennial mentorship programmes represent a formalised, mildly absurdist version of the advice junior workers have been giving their older colleagues for ages

Mukul Roy: What lies ahead for TMC's top man?

Mukul Roy, one of the founding members of the ruling Trinamool Congress (TMC), is back in the headlines for different reasons

Newsmaker: D Shivakumar's transition from global to local

His transition from a US multinational to a homegrown giant reflects his belief in hyper-local marketing

Our third fund will be much more active in India: Vertex Ventures MD

We will allocate follow-on dollars so that we continue to back the companies through their life-cycle: Vertex Ventures MD Ben Mathias

Graphic: Key deals last week

There were 15 deals worth $65.90 million and 1 private equity exits worth $557.89 million in the past seven days ended September 27, 2017

Investors riding on IPOs

Here's a snapshot of what kind of returns PE investors got from recent IPOs

CapitaLand to up mall investments

It owns stake in eight malls, of which 5 are with Prestige and two are with Advance India Projects

Driverless cars run into a fuel problem

The supplier of vehicle propulsion systems expects the first autonomous cars - likely robotaxis that are constantly on the road - will be too energy-hungry to run on battery power alone

The Strategist Quiz (#533)

The Strategist Quiz, October 12, 2017

SoftBank adds new twist to Ola-Uber rivalry

The investor could pave the way for a merger between Ola and Uber as it wouldn't want the two rivals to use its money to cannibalise one another

How diamonds can become 'the new gold' for investors

Diamond trading has gradually become more open

Steelmakers brace for 'short-term' headwinds

As the industry contends with surging imports, it is getting some help from firm finished steel prices and softening input costs

IMD and Skymet differ on specifics of monsoon predictions, again

The big difference in this year's forecast by two agencies has been their inability to assess the rains in the last two months of monsoon season

Sorry Amazon, in Singapore people love to go shopping

Web store has been operating Prime Now for about three months

Temasek-backed VC firm Vertex Ventures closes third fund for India, SE Asia

Vertex plans to continue its strategy of investing in early-stage tech companies