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...show a profit for the first time in a given year. The term stuck and spread, and by the 1990s Black Friday became an unofficial retail holiday nationwide. Since 2002, Black Friday has been the season's biggest shopping day each year except 2004, according to market-research firm ShopperTrak...
...Since then, two auditors of Satyam's accounting firm, PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC), have been sitting in an Indian jail, accused of abetting the scheme. Narayana, the CBI deputy director general, said there was evidence indicating their involvement but declined to elaborate. Following the release of the CBI report, a PwC spokeswoman declined comment; the accounting firms top India executive in March denied any of its employees were involved in wrongdoing...
...which it said were obtained with embezzled funds. A senior government official says that more Satyam properties will be attached. More shoes will drop with a fraud of this magnitude, says Partha Iyengar, head of research at the India office of Gartner, the Connecticut-based I.T. research and advisory firm...
...tainted company for $600 million in a government auction in April. If the fraud money reappears as assets in the name of the company, its good news for Tech Mahindra, which paid a huge sum for Satyam and its liabilities, says Suresh Talwar, partner at Mumbai-based law firm Talwar Thakore & Associates, Satyam's corporate counsel until 2006. It could be a bonanza for shareholders, too, in the form of dividends or bonus shares, he says. Judging by the scale of the fraud and India's lethargic judicial system, any windfall could still be a long...
...Beef-brisket noodles are a Hong Kong specialty, and many say that this neighborhood stalwart (21 Gough Street) serves up the city's best. Brave the inevitable queues to sample the rich, deeply flavorful beef broth, the firm, springy egg noodles and the deliciously tender, stewed-for-hours brisket, which yields to the gentlest bite...