Market cap of top 20 companies dips 23%
The total market capitalisation of India's top 20 industrial houses (based on market capitalisation) showed a decline of 23.3 per cent as on February 16, 2001, over the level of March 31, 2000.

RIL, Infy among best-managed Asian firms
Reliance Industries Ltd and Infosys have been voted as the best managed companies in their field in Asia. According to the fifth annual survey of the best managed companies in Asia, RIL tops the petrochemicals sector for the second year in a row, while Infosys leads the IT sector.

Sun apes Napster in war against Microsoft
Sun Microsystems has unveiled a project designed to undermine Microsoft's power and make its own software the center of one of the Net's most dynamic new movements. The software, called Jxta and pronounced "juxta,".


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