IT news
Amazon’s Kindle Fire takes top position with 54.5 per cent market share of Android tablets
27 Apr 2012
TCS looks to China to drive global thrust
25 Apr 2012
Facebook buys AOL patents from Microsoft for $550 mn
25 Apr 2012
Earlier this month, Microsoft paid over $1 billion for around 925 AOL patents and patent applications plus a license to AOL’s remaining portfolio of approximately 300 additional patents
TCS Q4 net rises over 10 per cent to Rs2,895 crore
23 Apr 2012
TCS saw its annual revenues cross the $10-billion mark for the first time, buoyed by strong growth momentum in the 2011-12 financial year
Twitterati slams Mamata for arrest over cartoons
14 Apr 2012
The cartoons depicted pictures of Banerjee and railway minister Mukul Roy planning to get rid of party leader Dinesh Trivedi, who was ousted by Banerjee as the railways minister
Facebook to acquire photo-sharing app maker Instagram for $1 bn
10 Apr 2012
Facebook, the world’s largest social networking site, yesterday agreed to buy the popular photo-sharing app maker Instagram, for about $1 billion in cash and stock
America Online to sell over 800 patents to Microsoft for $1.56 bn
09 Apr 2012
Following the sale, New York-based AOL will continue to hold a significant patent portfolio of over 300 patents and patent applications spanning core and strategic technologies
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The Rise and Rise of HDFC Bank
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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
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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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