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LinkedIn opens trading amid buying frenzy
20 May 2011
Social networking website for professionals, LinkedIn opened to a tumultuous reception at the New York Stock Exchange which sent its shares to more than double the float price
Fans see Apple as a religion, finds study
20 May 2011
Android tops in smartphone OS market: Gartner
20 May 2011
Microsoft found itself far behind Google's Android OS, Nokia's Symbian, Apple's iOS and RIM's BlackBerry
LinkedIn IPO price hiked 30 per cent on heavy demand
18 May 2011
The initial public offer at $42 to $45 a share values the social networking site at $4.3 billion.
Q1 PC sales up 6.2% in India, down 18% in Europe
18 May 2011
All major multinational PC vendors in India reported double-digit growth in shipments in the first quarter of 2011 with multinational brands contributing over half of the total shipments in the first quarter of 2011
Alibaba claims Alipay spinoff lawful
14 May 2011
IBM launches virtual desktop in India
12 May 2011
Google OS to power its Chromebook laptops
12 May 2011
In a frontal challenge to Microsoft, Google's forthcoming Chromebook laptops, to be made by Samsung and Acer, will run on Google's operating systrm rather than Windows
Wipro to acquire Brazil engineering firm
11 May 2011
Microsoft acquiring Skype for $8.5 bn
10 May 2011
In its most aggressive acquisition move, Microsoft is acquiring internet phone firm Skype Technologies for around $8.5 billion
LinkedIn IPO values company at $3 billion
09 May 2011
LinkedIn would use the proceeds to fund existing operations and expand business, which may include buying other companies or technologies.
Apple launches Quad –Core based iMacs in India
04 May 2011
Cyber-crooks using Osama’s death to steal user data
04 May 2011
Emails with subject lines like ‘See video in which Osama bin Laden is shown holding a newspaper with today’s date’ and pictures-of-osama-dead.exe, lure users to a fake website that downloads a Trojan on to their machines
Tata Tech gets Rs141.06 crore capital infusion
03 May 2011
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