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Nokia names Sandeep Girotra head of combined entity in India
16 Nov 2015
Finnish telecom equipment manufacturer Nokia has appointed Sandeep Girotra as its India head, overseeing customer operation for the the Nokia and Alcatel-Lucent combine across the country
Suu Kyi’s NLD wins Myanmar by a landslide
13 Nov 2015
The ruling military junta of President Thein Sein was magnanimous in its congratulations to Nobel laureate Aung San Suu Kyi and her National League for Democracy, allying fears that the military might overturn the election result
India names Sudhir Gokarn for IMF post
13 Nov 2015
Srinivasan’s run as global cricket chief ends
09 Nov 2015
With his exit as ICC chairman, N Srinivasan is now left with just one position as head of a cricket body — the president of Tamil Nadu Cricket Association
Srinivasan’s run as global cricket chief ends
09 Nov 2015
With his exit as ICC chairman, N Srinivasan is now left with just one position as head of a cricket body — the president of Tamil Nadu Cricket Association
Microsoft working to make passwords redundant: Nadella
06 Nov 2015
Microsoft chief Satya Nadella says his firm is working to replace passwords that can be confused or hacked with tamper-proof biometrics
Stop selling iPhones in UK if bill passes, Wikipedia founder Wales tells Apple
05 Nov 2015
Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales has called the UK’s Investigatory Power Bill, which bars end-to-end encryption, "stupid", and says Apple should stop selling its phones in the country if parliament passes it
Microsoft’s Nadella to meet business leaders in Mumbai tomorrow
04 Nov 2015
Satya Nadella will deliver a keynote address at ‘Microsoft’s Future Unleashed’ event in Mumbai that will bring together 3,000 industry thought leaders, enterprise heads, developers and entrepreneurs
Flipkart hires Google exec to head consumer experience
04 Nov 2015
Surojit Chatterjee, who has 33 US patents to his name, most recently was the global head of mobile search advertising and adsense for search at Google
Hero’s Brijmohan Lal Munjal dies at 93
02 Nov 2015
Brijmohan Lall Munjal was among the earliest Indian industrialists to effectively implement Just-in-Time inventory management and backward integration and is acknowledged as the trend-setter in the area
SpiceJet’s Sanjiv Kapoor quits to join Vistara
30 Oct 2015
Sanjiv Kapoor, who piloted SpiceJet Ltd, India’s second-largest low-fare airline, through two turbulent years, has been appointed by Vistara, the Tata-SIA Airlines carrier, as its chief strategy and commercial officer
Top scientist P M Bhargava returns Padma Bhushan
30 Oct 2015
Nepal gets its first woman president
28 Oct 2015
Bidhya Devi Bhandari is Nepal’s second President since the Himalayan nation was turned into a republic after abolishing the centuries-old monarchy
Zuckerberg promotes internet.org at IIT-Delhi meeting
28 Oct 2015
Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg on Wednesday used his meeting with 900 students of the IIT Delhi to push his much-opposed internet.org, which he said, now connects 15 million people online
Zuckerberg promotes internet.org at IIT-Delhi meeting
28 Oct 2015
Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg on Wednesday used his meeting with 900 students of the IIT Delhi to push his much-opposed internet.org, which he said, now connects 15 million people online
Zuckerberg gives 22-minute speech in Mandarin at Tsinghua University, Beijing
27 Oct 2015
In his 22-minute speech, Zuckerberg discussed Facebook's beginnings and the importance of sticking with the job at hand when faced with hurdles
Narendra Nayak to be MD, Blackberry India
27 Oct 2015
BlackBerry India's new managing director in Narendra Nayak, has 30 plus years of experience in the IT and telecom sector