IT news
Facebook hit with massive wave of pornographic and violent images
16 Nov 2011
Facebook is investigating reports that it has been hit with a massive wave of pornographic and violent images posted to its website
LinkedIn opens R&D centre in Bangalore
16 Nov 2011
LinkedIn believes it could emerge as a sales channel for small and medium businesses in India, and help them build brands.
Chinese business revamp dents Aveva’s results
16 Nov 2011
TCS's UK unit wins $2.2-bn order from Friends Life
09 Nov 2011
TCS's UK arm Diligenta has won a $2.2-billion order to provide back-end administration of pensions and insurance policies issued by UK-based Friends Life.
Hewlett-Packard mulls selling webOS unit: report
09 Nov 2011
Adobe to cut 750 jobs amid major business re-jig
09 Nov 2011
Google’s updated search engine to serve more relevant results
05 Nov 2011
The changes integrated in the search mechanism seek to understand whether a searcher is looking for results 'from the last week, day or even minute, says Google's Amit Singhal
UK, US reject calls for greater state control over internet
02 Nov 2011
Britain and the US strongly rejected calls from China and Russia for greater internet controls yesterday at a major conference on the future of cyberspace.
Duqu exploited at least one zero-day vulnerability: Researchers
02 Nov 2011
Apart from remaining vigilant, there are no known ways at present for users to follow to prevent a Duqu attack .
Cyber hackers targeting intellectual property: Symantec
01 Nov 2011
The purpose of these cyber attacks, traced to China, appears to have been industrial espionage, according to security firm Symantec.
HP not to sell its $40.7-bn PC division
28 Oct 2011
CEO Meg Whitman of Hewlett-Packard (HP), the world's largest personal computer company, yesterday announced it had scrapped plans of selling its PC division
Google+ goes past 40-million user mark
25 Oct 2011
Google+ has gained popularity in a shorter span than its competitor Facebook Inc.
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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
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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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