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TCS in race for Lufthansa IT subsidiary
19 Aug 2011
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Hewlett-Packard to acquire UK software firm Autonomy for $11.7 billion
19 Aug 2011
If it materialises, the acquisition would be HP’s biggest software acquisition in recent times after it purchased IT services company EDS in 2008 for $13.9 billion
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HP may spin off PC business, may buy UK’s Autonomy for $10 bn
19 Aug 2011
HP, the world's largest PC maker, is in talks to buy UK-based software company Autonomy Corp for about $10 billion and spin off its PC business.
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Technology heavyweights mull bidding for 8,800-patents holder InterDigital: report
18 Aug 2011
In a bid to stall internet giant Google from gaining InterDigital's patent portfolio, rivals Apple, Nokia and Qualcomm are among several technology companies mulling a bid for the wireless developer
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General Dynamics to buy Vangent for $960 million
17 Aug 2011
Vangent, formerly Pearson Government Solutions, generated $761 million in revenue last yearfrom health informatics and information exchange, electronic health records and data analytics
Yahoo brings Bollywood movies online
16 Aug 2011
NIIT buys Spain’s software firm Proyecta
16 Aug 2011
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How to reverse engineer Google algorithms
12 Aug 2011
Don’t try to be smarter than Google, or Bing, or Baidu, or Yahoo – it is a waste of time and money, says Amy Munice, president of b2b consulting firm Global B2B Communications
US downgrade won't impact IT sector: NASSCOM
09 Aug 2011
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WorldWideWeb turns 20
06 Aug 2011
WWW now is 80-million-strong, with many more computers connected to the internet, and billions of users.
LinkedIn posts 120 per cent rise in revenue
05 Aug 2011
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Randi Zuckerberg quits Facebook to start own social media firm
04 Aug 2011
Randi now plans to start `RotZ Media' which, she says, will gear towards making businesses more social on the internet.
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