Aiming to attract customers on-the-go, mobile applications (apps) and user-friendly mobile sites have become extremely important for hotels and restaurants.

Hospitality majors use mobile apps to boost biz

Business Standard

Amazon.com, today announced the launch of Junglee, a new online shopping service enabling customers to find and discover products available in India.

Amazon debuts junglee.com in India

Facebook unveiled plans for the biggest ever internet IPO that could raise as much as $10 billion, but made it clear CEO Mark Zuckerberg will exercise almost complete control over the company, leaving investors with little say.

Facebook CEO to keep iron grip after IPO

Reuters 

Hinduja Group firm Defiance Technologies is planning to tie up with a French IT company to offer design and engineering solutions through cloud platform. It would also finalise an acquisition in the US or Europe in 2012-13, said a senior executive from the company.

Defiance in talks with Dassault for  cloud solution

American search engine Google chose to apply for licence to operate in China, agreeing to abide by all the conditions imposed by the government here after its share in the burgeoning Chinese market declined to 9 per cent.

Google to return to China after its market share falls

Press Trust of India

The government plans to involve three more IITs in the world's cheapest Aakash tablet PC project to make it more indigenous and further lower its price. Apart from IIT Rajasthan, which is spearheading the project, IIT Mumbai, IIT Madras and IIT Kanpur would also be roped in for the project, sources in the HRD Ministry said.

IITs to work for making Aakash  cheaper

Banglaore-based Infosys, today announced leadership changes by swapping the heads of manufacturing and finance business units.

Infosys swaps heads of mfg and finance units

Following the Supreme Court order, the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (Trai) today started the process of auction of 2G spectrum and issued a pre-consultation paper on the same seeking views of all stakeholders.

Trai begins process for 2G spectrum auction

Less than a week after a similar move by micro-blogging site Twitter, Internet major Google has unveiled plans to make content on its blogger platform selectively available, depending on the local rules of each country.

Google unveils plans for country-specific content filtering

Popular social networking site Facebook finds India a major growth market, where the number of users have more than doubled in the past one year, as against near-zero penetration in the neighbouring China.

Facebook users in India doubled in 2011

The income-tax department has ordered attaching land and buildings of information technology (IT) consulting and outsourcing company Mahindra Satyam (formerly Satyam Computer Services).

Provisional I-T order to attach Satyam properties

Two years ago, it was a story of aggressive bidding for spectrum. Now, if the government were to go for re-allocation of 2G spectrum through auction, as suggested by the court, it might be a lukewarm affair, according to experts.

Telcos may show muted response 

Everybody is welcome to the network that you can depend on, screamed a Vodafone advertisement just a day after the Supreme Court quashed all the 122 controversial 2G telcom licences granted in 2007-08. While the British telecommunications company made it known to the world that it was more than ready to port in subscribers who are part of the troubled telcom universe, other major players like Bharti Airtel and Aircel Maxis were busy wooing users too from the scam-hit networks.

Vodafone, Airtel woo users from axed players

There&rsquo;s still plenty of fight left in the telecom companies hit by the cancellation of 122 licences issued in January 2008. Uninor, Sistema Shyam, Etisalat DB and others are ready to dig in their heels and take legal action. Telenor, Unitech&rsquo;s joint venture partner in Uninor, has gone to the extent of saying it may exit India. It is writing off about Rs 3,500 crore from its books related to its Indian investment following the licence cancellation.

Cancellation-hit telcos won't pull their punches

Hinduja Group company Defiance Technologies is planning to partner Dassault Syst&egrave;mes, a Paris-based provider of 3D product lifecycle management (PLM) solutions, to deliver its offerings using the former&rsquo;s cloud-compatible architecture technology.

Defiance Tech in talks with Dassault for cloud solutions

Facebook Inc, the social-networking company that&rsquo;s preparing for an initial public offering, had a valuation of at least $94 billion yesterday in an auction of its shares on the private market.

Facebook valued at $94bn in private auction

Mark Zuckerberg may sell about $1.67 billion of Facebook Inc stock in the company&rsquo;s initial public offering to pay off taxes he will owe when he exercises options to buy 120 million shares.

Zuckerberg may sell $1.67 bn in FB stock to cover taxes

The proposed initial public offering (IPO) by social networking firm Facebook Inc has created an unusual cheer for the market. Touted as the largest public offer by an internet company, it has created interest among investors across the globe. San Francisco realty is said to be booming. Even the local markets seem to be excited, gaining for the fifth week in row.

Street wary of Facebook surge

123 call karo, aur phir dekho, ki mobile kya kya kar sakta hai,&rdquo; said actor Irrfan Khan in the ad campaign by Vodafone, which was launched in the fag end of 2011. The ad, which ran till January this year, promised a host of value-added services-from recipes to movie reviews-which a subscriber could access by dialling 123 from her Vodafone number. (For the southern markets, the campaign features actor Prakash Raj.

Vodafone: Decoding 123

The BSNL's Orissa circle has registered a significant drop of more than one lakh customers for its landline service in last one year. The officials of the state owned service provider attributed the decline in the customer base to increasingly mobile penetration in the state and poor service delivery.

BSNL's landline customer base falls

There are more than 15 tablet PC models in the market and if you haven't lost your heart to a Samsung or Apple model then you have a tough decision to make. Whether on a budget or not, no one wants to buy a gadget that would not suit their computing needs.

New tablets on the block

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