Globally, the Yahoo! board is yet to elect a new chief executive, since the ouster of Carol Bartz. However, that is not stopping the company from readying a road map to snatch marketshare from its rivals.

Yahoo! pins hope on advanced search, mobiles in India

Business Standard

Hewlett-Packard (HP) directors were concerned plummeting shares would make the company vulnerable to a bid from Oracle Corp when they replaced Leo Apotheker with Meg Whitman, two people close to the board said.

Bid from Oracle weighed on HP during CEO switch

Facebook on Friday begins rolling out its biggest ever shake-up, in a move observers say will not only profoundly alter how its 800 million users interact with the site, but will keep them coming back for decades to come.

Profound change for Facebook set to 'lock in' users

The government would collaborate with service providers to provide latest technology and software to micro-enterprises at cheaper rates.

Small units to get cloud computing, says govt

Press Trust of India

A couple of days earlier, KLM Royal Dutch became the first airline in the world to operate a commercial flight, carrying 171 passengers, on bio-kerosene produced from used cooking fuel oil.

Flying high with non-food biofuel

Even after the invention of the typewriter, many great writers stuck with longhand. Hemingway slashed out his words in pen and ink, while standing at a specially made desk. Margaret Mitchell scribbled Gone With the Wind in dozens of composition notebooks. However, with the rise of the keyboard, and, more recently, the touch screen, it seems pen-and-paper lovers are out of luck.

Hand-held tools for digital scribblers

Vodafone Group Plc (VOD), the world&rsquo;s largest mobile-phone company, said it could potentially get an annual dividend of as much as $5.5 billion from its 45 per cent stake in US venture Verizon Wireless.

Vodafone may receive Verizon dividend of up to $5.5 bn, says Halford

Presently, Datamatics has 650 employees at its Nashik facility, which is spread across 40,000 sq ft area near Mumbai Naka area of the city. The company has total 10 delivery facilities across the country- 7 in Mumbai and one each in Chennai, Nashik and Bangalore.

Datamatics to add 250 employees at Nashik

Ashok Soota, co-founder and former chairman of MindTree, has sold almost half of his 11.1 per cent stake in the mid-sized information technology (IT) services company for Rs 94 crore.

Soota sells half his stake in MindTree

Wipro, India&rsquo;s third-largest information technology (IT) services firm, is now eligible to participate in various World Bank projects; a four-year ban on the company in 2007 has expired. However, the company has to reapply to become a vendor of the bank, which will be decided based on the eligibility criteria and other norms.

WB lifts four-year ban on Wipro

Persistent Systems, a player in software product development services, has announced that the firm is partnering with Life Technologies Corporation, a global biotechnology tools company providing premier systems, consumables, and services in the molecular research and diagnostics space.

Persistent invests in personalised medicine 

Ratan Tata Chairman of Tata Consultancy Services (TCS), India&rsquo;s largest IT services provide, believes that growth for the company remains robust. While addressing the annual general meeting of shareholder he said that&nbsp; going ahead TCS will also look at expanding its market share in emerging market like Latin America and West Asia.

TCS bullish on West Asia, Latin America

With growth returning, tech services companies see spike in expenses to bridge demand-supply mismatch; difficulty in obtaining H1-B visa is also an issue.

Top IT firms raise temp hiring for skilled jobs

Facebook is expected to launch a new video chat product, powered by Skype, which works on a browser. This was the conclusion drawn by TechCrunch following Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg tipping off the Seattle press that the company would be launching an &ldquo;awesome&rdquo; new product next week that has been built by Facebook&rsquo;s Seattle team.

Facebook set to surprise on July 6

When Mrigakshi Jaiswal, dance instructor, and one of the founding members launched Split Sole Dance Academy, in Mumbai, she thought it best to promote her institute on social networking sites. Two years on, Split Sole has a dedicated Facebook page with almost 1,700 members. She regularly updates videos and pictures of her classes and posts notifications for members about upcoming workshops and batch timings.

How Facebook is empowering individual entrepreneurs

A super-specialty consultancy that will make doctors accessible to people over internet or phone might sound incredulous to many, but Dr Debraj Shome and Dr Arbinder Singal did not think so. After nearly two years of testing, the duo has launched www.mediangels.com, which they claim is not &lsquo;just another e-health website&rsquo;.

MediAngels has something more to offer

To get the most out of your notebook and use its intended functions, particularly portability, it is important that you have the right choice of accessories.

Jazz up your laptop

Kerala State IT Mission (KSITM) has won this year&rsquo;s Computer World Honors Program Laureate awards for two of its projects in&nbsp;the categories of&nbsp;economic opportunity and health.

Two Kerala IT mission projects win awards

Talent development corporation and Asia's largest IT trainer, NIIT Limited, is targeting to train 12,000 students through its GNIIT cloud learning methodology in the 2011-12 financial year. NIIT, which launched the GNIIT cloud campus initiative early June 2011, is already delivering virtual cloud learning to 1,000 students across the country from its lab in Mumbai.

NIIT to train 12,000 students through cloud campus

The department of telecommunications (DoT) plans to offer incentives, which may include some kind of subsidy, to service providers for increasing mobile coverage in rural areas.

Telcos likely to get sops for better rural coverage

The technology to enable the promise of solar energy has quite some way to go, with one requirement being an efficient way of tracking the sun during its daily movement across the horizon. Two city-based entrepreneurs here say they&rsquo;ve developed a more efficient system in this regard, of a motor guided by a microchip, fed with information on the sun&rsquo;s movement in different seasons.

Keeping in step with the sun

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