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To focus on consolidating its acquisition and reducing debt; impact of $175mn on annual top line and $24mn on EBIDTA.

3i Infotech sells US subsidiaries for $137 mn

Gurgaon-based corporate lawyer Rajgopal Rao didn&rsquo;t know whether to rejoice or not. An e-mail in Hindi announcing him as the winner of some lottery was causing him worry. &ldquo;I was getting three-five mails everyday asking me my age, address and phone number so that the prize money could be delivered. After some thought, I did a Web search for the organisation and got redirected to some rogue site (as detected by the security software installed in his laptop). That&rsquo;s when I realised it was spam.

Cybercriminals turn local, attack with Hindi spam

Chiseled into the stone facade of the vacant Second Empire building at 8, rue de Londres here is the name of the French national railroad, a former occupant. Most recently, the site housed another conservative pillar of the French corporate establishment, the insurer AXA. The proud new owner is a company with a very different image in France, more bomb-thrower than bourgeois: Google.

Google bids to win over Europe

For three pennies an hour, hackers can rent Amazon.com&rsquo;s servers to wage cyber attacks such as the one that crippled Sony Corp&rsquo;s PlayStation Network and led to the second-largest online data breach in US history.

Amazon's cloud service on rent for pennies an hour

Genpact founder and CEO Pramod Bhasin on Monday stepped down from his post and as member of the company&rsquo;s board. This brings to an end his 14-year active stint with India&rsquo;s largest business process outsourcing (BPO) firm. Bhasin will now take over as a non-executive vice-chairman of the company.

Bhasin steps down as Genpact CEO

Unitech Group and Norway&rsquo;s Telenor may go to arbitration in Singapore to resolve their dispute over a rights issue of their joint venture, Unitech Wireless.

Unitech, Telenor may go to arbitration in Singapore

Finnish handset maker Nokia today said it will consolidate its Ovi services under brand Nokia from July.

Nokia wipes out Ovi rebrands services as Nokia

Press Trust of India

Genpact Chief Operating Officer N V Tyagarajan is geared up for another stint as the chief executive officer of the company. Starting June 17, he will be at the helm of affairs at the firm. He had earlier served as a CEO from 1999 to 2002, when Genpact was a subsidiary of conglomerate General Electric Co. He tells Piyali Mandal of his plans.

Q&A: N V Tyagarajan, COO, Genpact

A federal appeals court in San Francisco denied the Winklevoss brothers&rsquo; plea for a new hearing.

Twins lose bid to reopen FB case

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The Obama administration has proposed to create international computer security standards with penalties for countries and organisations that fall short.

US calls for cybersecurity strategy

Chinese computer maker Lenovo has been working on a new strategy and that makes Rajesh Thadani, director, consumer segment, a busy man. Currently ranked fourth in a market dominated by HP, Dell and Acer, Lenovo India is poised for growth and is planning to bring in a new range of products.

BS People: Rajesh Thadani

The move gives opportunity to the PSUs to expand in the face of dipping revenue and market share.

BSNL, MTNL begin talks on synergising operations

For the first time in four years, the Indian business of Vodafone Plc today posted a profit of euro 15 million (Rs 109.5 crore) for the financial year ended March. Last year, the business posted a loss of euro 37 million (Rs 270 crore).

Vodafone's India business moves to profits

Japan-based Mitsui OSK Lines is planning to make India a major hub for its shipping and back office destination and is looking at a two-fold growth in market share in volume terms from the current 4 per cent.

Mitsui to make India its back office hub 

Since its inception in July 1981 with a capital of Rs 10,000 that the current chairman, N R Narayana Murthy, borrowed from his wife, Infosys has given stock options worth Rs 50,000 crore to employees.

Infy has given Rs 50K cr in stock options since inception

Increasing levels of acceptance of Facebook (FB) as a major force in branding and advertising is having a momentous effect on the advertising industry. The digital and interactive marketing industry is making use of FB page almost like a business portal (like a replica of websites) and deriving business advantage out of it.

Digital marketing firms take to FaceBook to run brand, ad campaigns

IT peripherals and consumer electronics brand Techcom India is eying a 3 per cent market share in the low-end mobile handset segment.

Techcom launches GSM handsets 

Agrees hacker attack that crippled its online entertainment service was a hiccup in company&rsquo;s internet plan.

Sony CEO admits fault in strategy

The US may review its B-1 business visa programme following allegations by a local Infosys employee that the Bangalore-headquartered information technology (IT) company was misusing it to tackle H-1B visa restrictions.

US may review B-1 visa norms after employee accuses Infy of misuse

The world&rsquo;s two largest personal computer makers, Hewlett-Packard and Dell, said that a slowdown in sales to consumers in the first months of the year damped overall revenues.

HP and Dell see drastic dip in PC sales 

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