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Facebook’s Zukerberg likely to push Free Basics on India visit
19 Oct 2015
Facebook chief Mark Zuckerberg is planning his second visit to India on 28 October, exactly one month after he met Prime Minister Narendra Modi, as the country is the predominant focus for Facebook’s Free Basics initiative
Twitterati have field day as US websites crash
16 Oct 2015
Twitter will cut workforce next week: Reports
10 Oct 2015
Mobiles make Twitter users more egocentric than while tweeting from PCs: study
01 Oct 2015
Researchers have found that tweets sent from smartphones are 25 per cent more negative than when sent from computers
Google to unveil new products on Tuesday
28 Sep 2015
Facebook’s Zuckerberg connects with Modi, almost
28 Sep 2015
Facebook rebrands Internet.org to 'Free Basics’, expands Indian operations
25 Sep 2015
Facebook has rebranded its controversial Internet.org to Free Basics in a bid to thwart criticism and expand operations
France rejects Google’s appeal against “right to be forgotten”
22 Sep 2015
French officials have rejected Google’s appeal against extension of "right to be forgotten" to all versions of its search engine globally
Facebook to push ahead with internet.org in India
18 Sep 2015
Facebook on Thursday said it will not pull out its controversial internet.org from India despite widespread criticism that it favoured provided access only to select providers
Hashtags and @ symbols affect language on Twitter
16 Sep 2015
Despite all the shortened words and slang seen on Twitter, it turns out that people follow many of the same communication etiquette rules on social media as they do in speech
Modi to go live on Facebook with Zuckerberg
14 Sep 2015
India has the largest Facebook user-base outside the US; in June, the company had 125 million users of its global base of 1.44 billion come from India
Facebook reaches 1 bn daily-user milestone
28 Aug 2015
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Millets, a healthier and cheaper substitute to wheat and rice, are indigenous to many parts of the world, especially in the semiarid tropics of Asia and Africa, and offers a big scope for expanding production and consumption in the foodgrain deficient African continent
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Market predator Hindenburg preys on Adani stock
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Almost a month after the damning report of short-seller Hindenburg Research on the Adani Group that claimed that the seven stocks within the group were about 85 per cent overvalued, one of the group's stocks, Adani Total Gas, closed at Rs835 on the BSE, down nearly 79 per cent from its 24 January level, almost close to reaching that valuation