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MUMBAI/MILAN (Reuters) - Italian carmaker Fiat is to set up its own car dealer network in India to grow sluggish sales, ending a six-year distribution agreement with Tata Motors. - Reuters - 536 Reads

If you have a Gmail account, you’re eligible for Google Drive. A quick comparison of how it stacks up with the competition follows. - DNA - 8 Reads

India has some leeway to get reforms back on track with its long-term growth prospects firm, Tom Byrne, a senior vice president of rating agency Moody's Investors Service, said on Wednesday. - IBNLive - 23 Reads

Extending gains for the fourth straight session, the BSE benchmark index Sensex rose by another 105 points in early trade on sustained buying by funds and retail investors. - DNA - 7 Reads

"It's very hard for them to put food on the table, but they are very noble people," Diego Orozco, one of the thousands of young urban Guatemalans who spent last weekend with a poor rural family, told IPS. - Inter Press Service - 23 Reads

dmexco 2012 is now offering a further practice-based Conference format, the new Work Labs, which extends far beyond the pure transfer of knowledge - India PR Wire - 333 Reads

Economic and social growth have become the heart of the development agenda of the bloc of leading emerging economies known as IBSA (India, Brazil and South Africa) since it began focusing less on politics. - Inter Press Service - 13 Reads

CAMP DAVID, Md. (AP) -- President Barack Obama and leaders of other major industrial powers grappled Friday with options to solidify world resolve against development of an Iranian nuclear bomb and encourage a more forceful response to worsening violence in Syria.... - Associated Press - 20 Reads

Samsung's mobile phone sales have reached 86.6 million units, a 25.9 per cent increase from last year, as it took back the world's number one smartphone position from Apple, selling 38 million units worldwide, research firm Gartner announced on Wednesday. - IBNLive - 21 Reads

Kingfisher Airlines, that is dealing with a strike by over 70 pilots presently, had some positive news on Friday. Chairman Vijay Mallya wrote to his employees assuring them that their long-overdue salaries would be disbursed starting Friday. - IBNLive - 6 Reads