IT news
ICT could become key influencer across agri value chain: Nasscom
13 Aug 2013
The adoption of mobile internet is set to accelerate in rural areas due to a combination of affordable handsets, optic fibre backbone and local language content
New PayPal app gives new meaning to ‘face value’
08 Aug 2013
Western Europe PC market down 20%
08 Aug 2013
Cognizant net profit up 19 per cent in Q2
06 Aug 2013
Dell agrees to $24.8 billion buyout by Michael Dell
02 Aug 2013
Besides the $350 million addition to the purchase price, the revised offer provides for a 13-cent per share special dividend and guaranteed dividend of 8 cent in the third quarter
Google India shuts down its music search service
01 Aug 2013
Researchers demonstrate carjack over net
27 Jul 2013
Michael Dell raises offer by a dime to tweak voting rules
25 Jul 2013
Michael Dell wants the company special committee to drop a rule that treats shares not cast either 'for' or 'against' the deal, as votes against the deal.
Google unveils Nexus 7 and net-to-TV dongle
25 Jul 2013
Google yesterday unveiled a sleeker but more powerful tablet PC in its Nexus range along with a thumb-sized device to enable users of popular mobile gadgets to send online content to television sets wirelessly
Cisco to buy cyber security solutions provider Sourcefire for $2.7 bn
23 Jul 2013
Cisco Systems Inc, the world’s biggest maker of networking gear, today agreed to buy cyber security solutions provider Sourcefire Inc, for around $2.7 billio
TCS first quarter net profit rises 16.8% to Rs3,831 crore
18 Jul 2013
With its investments in Europe gaining strong traction with customers, TCS hopes to continue to deliver industry-leading growth.
Icahn raises bid in last-ditch effort to thwart Michael Dell
13 Jul 2013
Activist investor Carl Icahn yesterday raised his bid for personal computer maker Dell Inc in a last-ditch attempt to scuttle founder Michael Dell's offer to take the company private
Featured articles
Lighter than air, yet very, very powerful
By Kiron Kasbekar | 03 Jan 2024
In March 2013 Chinese scientists pulled off a remarkable feat. They created the world’s lightest aerogel. Tipping the scales at a mere 0.16 milligrams per cubic centimeter – that’s a sixth of the weight of air!
COP28 explained: A closer look at COP28's climate change solutions
By Aniket Gupta | 27 Dec 2023
The 28th United Nations Climate Change Conference, also known as COP28, took place from 30th November 2023, to 13th December 2023, at Expo City in Dubai, United Arab Emirates.
What is a Ponzi scheme?
By Aniket Gupta | 06 Dec 2023
Ponzi schemes have long captivated the public imagination, drawing unsuspecting investors into a web of illusion and deception.
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
06 Mar 2023
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