Google Chief Executive Officer Eric Schmidt has doubled the anticipated pace of acquisitions this year and expects to maintain that rate after some internal projects have failed to spur growth.

Google doubles acquisition pace

Business Standard

Movil Mobile, a handset brand of Bling Telecom Pvt. Ltd., has launched its new phone, MC 100 in markets including Gujarat.

Movil Mobile launches new handset in Gujarat

The companies have started increasing the number of American employees in US workforce.

US visa move to hit Indian IT firms

Telecom software product firm Subex is planning to raise up to Rs 64 crore by issuing about eight million equity shares to Rayed Holding &amp; Finance S A, the investment arm of a telecom firm which is one of its clients. The shares would be issued for a price of Rs 80 per equity shares and the fund proceeds will be utilised to part-repay the debt of the company which is about $36 million, Subhash Menon, founder chairman, MD and CEO, Subex, said.

Subex to raise funds from client's arm

The adverse impact of rate wars and foreign exchange losses has resulted in Bharti Airtel, the country&rsquo;s largest telecom service provider, showing a decline (over the same period last year) in net profit by 32 per cent to Rs 1,682 crore during the quarter ended June.

Bharti Airtel net dips by a third

Quippo raises Rs 1,400 cr, says fund will be used to repay loans.

SBI Macquarie-led group buys 11% in Quippo-WTTIL

&ldquo;This could be the beginning of a trade war. It&rsquo;s going to come back and hurt the US in so many ways, both short term and long term,&rdquo; warns Sanjay Puri, president of the Washington-based lobby group USINPAC.

'It's going to come back and hurt US'

The American corporate sector has criticised the US government move to increase visa fees for IT professionals.

America Inc criticises rise in US visa fee

Chennai-based Munoth Communication Limited (MCL) has launched Munoth brand of mobile handsets in Ahmedabad. Through an arrangement with leading mobile phone makers in China including Changhong Communications Ltd, Shenzhen, China and Zechin Mobile International Ltd, Hong Kong, MCL will be manufacturing mobile handsets carrying low radiation and longer battery life.

Munoth rolls out mobile handsets in A'bad

Harmindar Chawla (name changed on request) was just coming to terms with his father&rsquo;s untimely death when he received an email from his father&rsquo;s lawyer. It contained passwords to electronic records that belonged to his father. It also had details of data locked in CDs, DVDs, and cloud- or internet-based services like Facebook, Flickr and Gmail.

Digital afterlife: Leaving your legacy online

Imagine an internet where consumers paid a low price for basic services and more for add-ons such as 3-D video.

Net neutrality may end soon

Acer, the world's second largest personal computer maker, has tied-up with Reliance Communications, to launch a netbook which comes embedded with wireless broadband. Launched in Bangalore on Thursday, Aspire One532h, Acer&rsquo;s latest netbook comes with in-built Reliance Netconnect Broadband Plus services with a capability of offering high speed connectivity of up to 3.1 Mbps across 66 Indian cities.

Acer launches netbook with Reliance's in-built broadband

In what could be a breather to web-based email services such as Gmail, Yahoo and Hotmail, leading Indian telecom operators say they have demonstrated to the government their ability to intercept such services if the need arises for security purposes.

Respite for Google, Skype

As US President&nbsp; Barack Obama signed the Border Security Bill into a law, Nasscom, the apex body representing the Indian software industry, proposed to create alternative business models in which new jobs can be created in India, than in the US. The leading Indian IT firms also emphasised they were trying to come out with new models on how to contain the impact of fee increase.

Indian IT industry to create new biz models: Nasscom

Makes clear only legal monitoring to be allowed.

RIM offers tech solution to Govt

Press Trust of India

Cyber-stalking is a delightful, if creepy, pastime. My personal tastes are on the vanilla side of fetish street. I have search-alerts out on people and am automatically informed when they make news. I RSS/Atom their blogs and follow them on Twitter. If they use Facebook (FB), I beseech them to become friends.

Devangshu Datta: www.thatsnotme.com

Barack Obama signs Border Security Bill

Oracle Corp filed a patent and copyright infringement lawsuit against Google over its Android software, citing technology gained from the January acquisition of Sun Microsystems.

Oracle sues Google over Android

Bombay HC says market regulator can take action to safeguard shareholder interest.

Sebi can probe PW role in Satyam scam

Competitive pressures over lower tariffs have eaten into the profits of Reliance Communications&rsquo; quarterly performance. The company has posted one of its worst-ever results, with an 84 per cent drop in its consolidated net profit to Rs 251 crore, compared with Rs 1,636 crore in the corresponding quarter last year.

RCom net profit slides 84% at Rs 251 cr

The United States said it was not mediating between India and BlackBerry maker Research in Motion (RIM), which has asked the smartphone vendor to provide access to some of mobile messaging services or face ban in that country.

US says not mediating between RIM and India

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