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Ford to put struggling India business into JV with Mahindra

Car sales in india rose an annual 7 per cent in november 2011

Bloomberg Ford Motor Co is set to transfer most of its assets in India to a joint venture with Mahindra & Mahindra Ltd after failing to make meaningful inroads for more than two decades in the world’s fourth-largest automobile market, people with knowledge of the matter said. Mahindra, one of India’s largest automakers, will own 51 percent of the new ...

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China tourists head back to Thailand

Thailand's economic growth forecast for 2015 lowered

Bloomberg The number of Chinese tourists visiting Thailand topped 1 million in August for the first time in six months, brightening an otherwise dim outlook for the nation’s economy. Chinese arrivals surged almost 19 percent to 1.03 million during the month compared with a year earlier, Tourism Ministry data showed. Overall visitor growth of 7.4 percent was the strongest this ...

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Facebook defies antitrust warnings with ‘startup deal’

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Bloomberg Facebook Inc sent a clear signal with its agreement to buy a brain computing startup: heightened regulatory scrutiny and intensifying antitrust probes won’t slow down its pace of acquisitions. With its announcement of plans to purchase CTRL-Labs for at least $500 million, Facebook continued its pattern of snapping up promising startups in new markets, the very behaviour that the ...

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