FieldFresh Foods wants Del Monte to become one of the country&rsquo;s top food and beverages brands.

The Del Monte difference

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Hindustan Unilever has rolled out a fabric conditioner after almost four years of test-marketing.

Comfort factor

It&rsquo;s time to move over YouTube, Metacafe and other online video-browsing portals; now, its Shufflr. If the thought of videos means YouTube to you, Bangalore-based Althea Systems&rsquo;s video-browsing website, www.shufflr.tv, aims to change the pattern of video-viewing for you.

Time to shuffle your video browsing

Philips wants to grow at double the rate of the country&rsquo;s gross domestic product. With the government confident of 9 per cent growth in the current financial year, the task for Philips is cut out: It has to grow its business at least 18 per cent. Philips has three businesses in India: Lighting, healthcare and consumer lifestyle.

Philips' new design for growth

There could be several hardware-related reasons for a slow computer. For example, the processor, the brain of your computer, may be too slow to run today&rsquo;s demanding software. It may drag along if you have several programs running simultaneously. Then, there is RAM &mdash; the temporary memory the computer uses to do its calculations. If you do not have enough RAM, your programs will run slowly.

Make your PC run as fast as new

Saina Nehwal&rsquo;s brand value soars five times to Rs 30 lakh per endorsement.

Ad world's new poster girl

In May this year, Spanish fashion brand Zara opened its first Indian store. A month later, it was the turn of Chinese clothing giant Yishion to follow suit. They were preceded by at least three more &ndash; Diesel, Vero Moda and 7 For All Mankind &ndash; all of them set up shop in India this year.

Foreign fashion brands play the pricing game

The Shanghai Expo is a spectacle. But so is a lot of Shanghai itself.

Full exposure

The omnipresent Chinese character&nbsp;, pronounced &ldquo;chai&rdquo; and meaning &lsquo;demolish&rsquo;, has been a leitmotif in the architectural rise and rise of China.

The 'chai' factor

Yes, there&rsquo;s the Golden Temple and the Wagah Border. But there&rsquo;s also Bharawan Dhaba, Ahuja Lassi, and hedonistic spa treatments in this city in flux.

Food stop

In Gaza under the Israeli blockade, there are echoes of an ancient medieval trade: the smuggling of rare, precious commodities. Just as prized as cement (banned by the Israelis for fear it might be used to make bombs), and just as contraband, Gaza has a thriving black market in herbs &mdash; coriander, aniseed, chamomile. And this week, as Israel allowed the entry of coriander seed, the much-tried inhabitants of Gaza celebrated this small victory.

A new leaf

For most people, exercising is as simple as getting up half-an-hour earlier and going for a walk. Increasingly, for many others, a personal trainer is a must-have. Such as Vice Admiral D Sai Prasad Varma (retd.

The lowdown on personal trainers

These days, when the Deepwater Horizon fiasco has the Gulf of Mexico looking almost as oily as the officials from BP, Transocean and Halliburton, it&rsquo;s heartening to read about a Swiss gentleman by the name of Bertrand Piccard. Monsieur Piccard and his team of scientists and engineers spent six years building a solar-powered microlight plane, and last week this plane undertook its maiden all-night flight.

Here comes the sun

Are you willing to work on weekends?&rdquo;asks a tough looking interviewer on the &ldquo;Hear what you want to hear&rdquo; television advertisement of Tata Docomo. The first-time job seeker mutters a tentative &ldquo;No.

Will you vote for a five-day work week?

Graphic novels are a new avatar of the ancient illustrated dramas, says one publisher. They are now a promising genre in India, too.

Reading pictures

After Henry Ford, Jack Welch is perhaps the most influential CEO of all time. The rules he laid down for General Electric have become standard practice for most corporations now: get out of any business in which you are not among the top three, cut your costs by 10 per cent and have 10 per cent fewer employees on your rolls in a year. A CEO, Welch said, may not be the brightest person around; so long as he can get the right person for the right job, he has done his job well.

Learn from the leaders

FIFA&rsquo;s refusal to allow technology is not helping the sport.

Crossing the line

The sacrifices Shoaib Malik has to make for marital bliss.

Caught and bowled

The unpredictability in women&rsquo;s tennis is not good for the sport.

Easy come, easy go

The Fide elections are headed for a courtroom. Anatoly Karpov&rsquo;s lawyers, White &amp; Case of New York, have filed suit against Fide and incumbent president Kirsan Ilyumzhinov in Lausanne. Technicalities in the Fide constitution may disqualify the Kirsan re-election campaign.

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Actually, you can. The new Cayenne is being launched in India next week. We&rsquo;ve driven it.

Cayenne touch this

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