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SAP to pay Oracle over $300 mn in copyright-infringement lawsuit
03 Aug 2012
SAP AG will pay its larger rival Oracle Corp at least $306 million in damages in a copyright-infringement lawsuit for its defunct US subsidiary TomorrowNow's illegal downloads of Oracle’s software
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Oracle faces billions of dollars in damages claim from arch rival HP
02 Aug 2012
Oracle Corp may end up paying billions of dollars in damages for a breach of software development contract lawsuit bought by arch rival Hewlett-Packard
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Not using social media for customer communication harmful: Gartner
02 Aug 2012
The dissatisfaction stemming from failure to respond via social channels can lead to up to a 15-per cent increase in churn rate for existing customers
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One million users sign up for Hotmail successor Outlook.com
01 Aug 2012
The new web-based email service would eventually integrate Skype to rival Google's Talk that is embedded to Gmail
Google Talk goes down for four hours
27 Jul 2012
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Global social media revenues to reach $16.9 billion in 2012
26 Jul 2012
With marketers allocating a higher percentage of their advertising budget to social networking sites, global social media revenues are forecast to reach $16.9 billion in 2012
Cisco Systems to eliminate 1,300 jobs
25 Jul 2012
Infosys to hire 2,000 people in US this year
24 Jul 2012
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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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