HCL Technologies, the New Delhi-based information technology company, is increasing its focuson the retail segment.The company will be taking its total outsourcing offering to the retailers in the small and medium enterprise (SME) category, whereas for the large retailers, it will pitch the best-of-the-breed target solutions to cater to specific problems. While the company has [...]

Several companies and individuals in Papua New Guinea are profiteering from the ignorance of our little people by charging them huge amounts of money to build a website for their small businesses.And after being ripped off by these companies, the little people then feel the brunt of paying excessive fees for a domain name, regular [...]

With new research overturning established perceptions, even so-called safe lifestyle options are suddenly finding themselves under the scanner Ah, so you’re the health conscious kind. You’ve got a daily vigorous workout regime, swear by organic food and don’t need a dietician to make you pass up spicy curry for some fresh sushi. Even at a [...]

A bulk of G Amphray Lab’s Rs 80-crore sales — Rs 71 crore — comes from exports to Europe and Latin America. So, when the rupee spiralled against the dollar earlier this year, the Mumbai-based company, which produces fine chemicals for pharmaceutical companies, incurred a loss of about Rs 70 lakh. Company’s promoter, Rajesh R [...]

Chinese and Indian retailers are forcing their way into the Top 500 list of retailers in Asia Pacific, according to a new survey produced by Euromonitor International for RETAIL ASIA magazine. The Retail Asia Top 500 list, now in its fourth edition, shows that while retailers from the developed, high-value markets of Japan, Australia, South [...]

He’s a man after Sam Walton’s heart. S Susindran, 42, founder CEO of Sabare International, believes that the beast of Bentonville, as Wal-Mart is also known, is misunderstood the worldover. “Their margins are very low, and what they extract from their suppliers goes towards maintaining their price advantage.” Susindran has proven through his own model [...]

Several retailers in India are in the process of testing or entering the Rs25,000 crore personal care retailing segment India’s second largest listed retailer, Shopper’s Stop Ltd, is running a pilot project for a chain of beauty and personal care products called Arcilia. The 5,000 sq. ft store, currently being piloted in Pune’s upmarket Kalyani [...]

Head honchos of India’s retail industry have forecast that the retail boom currently sweeping the nation will usher in a golden era. A three-day conference in Mumbai — India Retail Forum — projected a brilliant upward growth for Indian retail and hoped that very soon the country would become the fifth largest consumer market in [...]

An international team led by the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory (APL) in Laurel, Md., has developed a prototype of the first fully integrated prosthetic arm that can be controlled naturally, provide sensory feedback and allows for eight degrees of freedom—a level of control far beyond the current state of the art for prosthetic [...]

Researchers have built an inchworm-like robot so small you need a microscope just to see it.In fact about 200 hundred of them could line up and do the conga across a plain M&M. The tiny bot measures about 60 micrometers wide (about the width of a human hair) by 250 micrometers long, making it the [...]