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Microsoft rated poor by IT professionals in Q2
21 Jul 2009
Microsoft’s image took a beating for the second quarter in 2009, as IT professionals rated the company poorly in customer satisfaction for server and infrastructure software, operating systems and applications
TCS bags another deal with Volkswagen
21 Jul 2009
Yahoo to unveil redesigned website home page
21 Jul 2009
Yahoo will unveil its revamped website home page tomorrow to its 100 million users in the US and later this week to those in the UK, India and France. The rst of the world will have to wait till next year
Digital Sky's stock purchase values Facebook at $6.5 billion
15 Jul 2009
The Russian internet company has offered to buy stocks worth $100 million of the popular social networking site
EMC wins $2.1-billion bidding war for Data Domain
09 Jul 2009
Information infrastructure technology giant EMC beat rival NetApp yesterday to acquire Data Doamain for $2.1 billion in the month-long bidding war
DARPA to revolutionise supercomputing
08 Jul 2009
The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency is all set to develop a new breed of supercomputers that will be smarter, faster, and also smaller, requiring much less power than the massive machines in operation today.
Satyam to issue fresh shares to Tech Mahindra
07 Jul 2009
EMC escalates bidding war for Data Domain with $2.1-billion offer
07 Jul 2009
The bidding war for Data Domain between EMC and NettApp escalated yesterday after EMC once again raised its all-cash offer from $1.8 billion to $2.1 billion
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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