In a bid to boost online shopping adoption in India, leading e-commerce players and Google have come together to bring the concept of Cyber Monday to India - titled &lsquo;Great Online Shopping Festival&rsquo; slated for 12.12.12 (December, 12, 2012).

Google, e-commerce firms to bring 'Cyber Monday' to India

Business Standard

Finnish handset maker Nokia said it will sell its head office building in Espoo to real estate investment firm Exilion for euro 170 million as the cellphone maker continues to cut costs. &ldquo;Nokia has agreed to sell and lease back its head office building in Espoo on a long-term lease to Finland-based Exilion. The selling price is euro 170 million,&rdquo; Nokia said in a statement on Tuesday. The sale is expected to be completed by the end of this year, it added.

Nokia to sell head office building 

Press Trust of India

With Apple today announcing the launch of the iTunes store in India apart from Russia, Turkey, South Africa and 52 additional countries, it will become harder for users to justify their pirated entertainment libraries on personal devices. Earlier, the iTunes Store in India was mostly a marketplace for free digital books and podcasts.

Apple's iTunes debuts in India

Reason: the state-owned telecom operator, which reported a loss of Rs 4,109 crore in 2012, has failed to avail any of the facilities a Navratna enterprise gets.

MTNL: Lulling its head, saving its 'crown' 

Wipro&rsquo;s decision to separate its information technology (IT) and non-IT businesses is meant to give a clear focus on the former in these challenging times &mdash; global IT spending is down, margins are under pressure, and Cognizant is fast emerging as a serious challenger to the big three (TCS, Infosys and Wipro). The demerger is also expected to give a boost to the non-IT business. It will be housed in a new unlisted company, Wipro Enterprises.

Wipro's non-IT biz finally comes of age

The MobiKwik is also the highest-rated recharge app on the Google Play Store and rated fourth among free apps in the shopping category, right behind flipkart.com. Mobikwik currently has 1.5 million users.

MobiKwik's Android app records 150,000 downloads in 3 months

The recently developed Aakash-2 tablet is for the purpose of testing and empowerment of teachers and there is no proposal to provide these to students from poor and rural backgrounds, the government told Lok Sabha today.

Aakash-2 tablets in the first phase not for students: govt

US anti-virus software guru John McAfee, who is on the run from police in Belize seeking to question him in a murder probe, has crossed into Guatemala and said on Tuesday he will seek political asylum there.

John McAfee to seek asylum in Guatemala

Reuters 

Mobile telecoms equipment joint venture Nokia Siemens Networks said on Wednesday it plans to sell its business support systems business to Redknee as part of a drive to sell non-core assets. It also confirmed on Wednesday that it would close its loss-making German services company.

Nokia Siemens on selling spree

Bharti Infratel Limited, the mobile tower arm of Bharti Airtel Limited, is planning to invest Rs 1,100 crore to set up around 4,800 new towers and to upgrade its network services. The investment would be made over the next 30 months.

Bharti Infratel to ramp up tower network

To boost presence beyond just cellphones, Finnish handset maker Nokia has launched a new brand, HERE &ndash; a cloud-based location mapping application that can be used across screens and operating systems.

Nokia banks on HERE

Apple&rsquo;s iPad Mini is set to be launched in India tomorrow, according to a tweet posted by Reliance Digital iStore, a leading seller of Apple products in the country. &ldquo;Get set for the whole package in a smaller package! Get ready for the iPad Mini. Only @iStoreIndia from 7th December onwards,&rdquo; iStore has tweeted.

Apple to launch iPad Mini, 4th-gen iPad in India today

The $3-billion investment of Russian telecom operator Sistema in India hangs in the balance.

A listless Sistema struggles to 'ensure continuity'

London-headquartered BT Group (formerly British Telecom) plans to raise about Rs 1,000 crore by selling its remaining stake of 9.09 per cent in Tech Mahindra Ltd, a joint venture between BT and Mahindra &amp; Mahindra (M&amp;M) formed in 1986. The transaction will be done through the stock market via block deals.

BT to sell 9% final stake in TechM for Rs 1,000 cr

Google said its online social network had grown to 135 million active users, as it added a photo-sharing app to compete against services like Facebook's Instagram.

Google+ adds members, photo-sharing app

Employers turn to social media sites like Facebook when deciding whether to even call a job candidate for an interview, according to a new study.

Facebook may decide if you will get an interview call

To tap the growing developer&rsquo;s ecosystem in India, Microsoft Corporation (India) Private Limited has launched 14 Microsoft Innovation Centres (MICs) in partnership with technical institutions across four states.

Microsoft  launches 14 innovation centres

After Nasdaq-listed Cognizant spooked the market by hinting at a slower growth in 2013, it is the turn of Infosys to sound an alarm bell. The IT bellwether said its modest five per cent dollar revenue growth for FY13 may be under threat.

Near-term clouds loom over Infosys

Software guru John McAfee, fighting deportation to Belize, was rushed to a hospital in Guatemala on Thursday shortly after his asylum request was rejected, but a suspected heart attack turned out to be stress in a fresh twist to the saga.

Deportation looms for McAfee after heart drama

Google Inc is replacing the head of its in-house mergers and acquisitions group, David Lawee, with one of its top lawyers, according to a person familiar with the matter.

Google to replace M&A chief  

Kolkata has emerged as one of the key concerns for the telecom companies providing GSM services.

Kolkata concern for GSM operators as subscriber base falls

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