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NSA surveillance scandal sends sales of Orwell’s ‘1984’ soaring
12 Jun 2013
The book on Tuesday rose to No4 on Amazon's list of ‘Movers and Shakers’, propelled by the news of secret surveillance of Verizon's call records by the US National Security Administration
BSNL to close telegraph service from 15 July
12 Jun 2013
It’s end of the road for the 160-year-old telegraph service as smart phones, emails and SMS gang up to make the humble telegram irrelavent
Google buying Israeli mobile satellite navigation start-up Waze
12 Jun 2013
Though the Internet giant did not disclose the purchase price, several reports suggested that the deal was struck at $1.03 billion
SoftBank raises offer for Sprint Nextel to $21.6 billion
11 Jun 2013
Japanese mobile operator SoftBank Corp yesterday raised its offer for US wireless carrier Sprint Nextel Corp to $21.6 billion to ward off a counter bid from US satellite-TV provider Dish Network Corp
IBM in mobile computing pact with 10gen
08 Jun 2013
Rights group flays India’s net, phone-tapping system
08 Jun 2013
The government has released very little information about what agencies will have access to the system, who will authorise surveillance, and what legal standards must be met to intercept communications.
Court dumps complaint against PM, Maran in 2G case
07 Jun 2013
The complainant had alleged that the prime minister and Maran had "unlawfully changed and diluted" the original terms of references for vacation and reallocation of 2G spectrum
Mukesh Ambani’s Jio to rent RCom towers in Rs12,000 cr deal
07 Jun 2013
Reliance Industries’ telecom arm Jio Infocom will lease up to 45,000 mobile masts from RCom for 15-years netting an estimated Rs800 crore a year for RCom
Samsung gets US ITC to ban Apple’s older devices for infringing patent
05 Jun 2013
The US International Trade Commission yesterday banned the import and sale of the iPhone 4, iPhone 3GS, iPad 3G and iPad 2 3G in the US market, saying that several of Apple’s older iPhone’s and the iPad’s infringe a patent held by Samsung
Cabinet approves conciliation in $2 bn Vodafone tax row
04 Jun 2013
The income tax department had slapped a Rs14,000-crore tax demand, including Rs6,000 crore in interest, on Vodafone’s 2007 acquisition of Hutchison Whampoa’s stake in Essar-Hutch joint venture
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Lighter than air, yet very, very powerful
By Kiron Kasbekar | 03 Jan 2024
In March 2013 Chinese scientists pulled off a remarkable feat. They created the world’s lightest aerogel. Tipping the scales at a mere 0.16 milligrams per cubic centimeter – that’s a sixth of the weight of air!
COP28 explained: A closer look at COP28's climate change solutions
By Aniket Gupta | 27 Dec 2023
The 28th United Nations Climate Change Conference, also known as COP28, took place from 30th November 2023, to 13th December 2023, at Expo City in Dubai, United Arab Emirates.
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The Rise and Rise of HDFC Bank
03 Jul 2023
HDFC, which surged ahead of global majors like HSBC Holdings Plc and Citigroup Inc and left Indian peers like State Bank of India and ICICI Bank in market capitalisation, now ranks fourth largest among the world’s most valuable banks, after JPMorgan Chase & Co, Industrial and Commercial Bank of China Ltd and Bank of America Corp
India’s Millet Revolution To Enrich Global Food Basket
02 Apr 2023
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
Market predator Hindenburg preys on Adani stock
06 Mar 2023
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
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