Telecom
60% spectrum unsold as auction ends with Rs65,789-cr bids
07 Oct 2016
India's biggest auction of telecom spectrum ended today with just Rs65,789 crore of bids coming in over five days, leaving unsold 60 per cent of the airwaves on offer, including the premium 700MHz and 900 MHz bands
After Snowden, another NSA contractor held for stealing classified data
07 Oct 2016
Harold T Martin III worked for Booz Allen Hamilton, the same security consultant that employed whistleblower Edward J Snowden. But though he was arrested in August, it is still not clear why he stole highly classified information
Yahoo under cloud for searching all users’ mail on NSA plea
05 Oct 2016
Some surveillance experts said this represents the first case to surface of a US internet company agreeing to an intelligence agency's request by searching all arriving messages, as opposed to examining stored messages or scanning a small number of accounts in real time
Ericsson to cut 3,000 jobs in Sweden
04 Oct 2016
India’s biggest-ever spectrum auction gets under way
01 Oct 2016
The Department of Telecommunications (DoT) today commenced India’s biggest ever spectrum auction in which airwaves worth Rs5.66 lakh crore have been put up for sale
Smartphone pioneer BlackBerry to no longer make handsets
29 Sep 2016
BlackBerry Ltd, which once captured the devotion of the world’s business and political elite with its devices, has announced that it will stop designing and manufacturing the handsets that were the foundation of its reputation for security and mobility
Rcom-RJio ‘virtual merger’ to double competition
28 Sep 2016
By pooling and sharing both spectrum and telecom infrastructure the two brothers hope to achieve synergies and bring down cost of operation without any additional capital expenditure
BSNL trumps Jio with lifetime free voice plan
26 Sep 2016
While Jio's offering is only for the 4G customers, State-run Bharat Sanchar Nigam Ltd will offer the plan for all 2G, 3G and 4G customers
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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
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