Here&rsquo;s good news for the young and budding entrepreneurs in the country with a social orientation. One of the co-founders of Sun Microsystems, venture capitalist and founder of Khosla Ventures, Vinod Khosla, is planning his first entity outside the US.

Vinod Khosla sets up entity in India for start-up incubation

Business Standard

Aided by better handsets and introduction of 3G services, the share of mobile value added services (MVAS) is expected to reach 31 per cent of the total revenue of the telecom sector in the next three years, says a survey.

Mobile value add services earning ratio to reach 31% by 2015

Press Trust of India

Amazon.com Inc, the world&rsquo;s largest online retailer, has started selling wines on its website just in time for the holiday shopping season.

Amazon turns wine merchant, challenges Wine.com online

Google Inc reported an unusual drop in traffic to its sites in China, and an Internet monitor said the search engine&rsquo;s services are being blocked in the world&rsquo;s most populous nation. Google&rsquo;s Transparency Report, which measures traffic to its sites around the world, showed a bigger-than-typical plunge in China traffic yesterday. The company&rsquo;s services, including mail, maps and document storage, are being blocked in China, according to Greatfire.org, a website that monitors Internet activity and access in China.

Google sees China-traffic drop

Taiwan's leading smartphone maker HTC said today it has reached a global settlement with technology giant Apple, bringing an end to all outstanding litigation between the two companies.

Taiwan's HTC and Apple reach global settlement

Whether you are home, hanging out with family and friends, enjoying the cool winter days or packing up for a family getaway, technology is always there to make it a little easier to enjoy. This holiday, if you are torn between choosing a family gadget and a whacky one, there are many devices that promise to be both.

Plug in the cool this season

In a landscape where technology entrepreneurship in India often means launching, say, the eighth company that sells diapers online &mdash; where thousands of rupees are spent acquiring customers who don&rsquo;t return, where the standard game plan is to outspend everyone else and triumph simply because you&rsquo;re the last one standing &mdash; Vineet Devaiah&rsquo;s product and its path to development offer a wildly different narrative.

Will the next Instagram come out of Bangalore?

Apple Inc and HTC Corp have settled all global lawsuits and signed a 10-year licensing agreement, ending a dispute that threatened their shipments of mobile devices.

Apple, HTC resolve patent disputes 

Autodesk, a Nasdaq-listed company that develops architectural, engineering and entertainment software, is targeting 100-120 million users globally for its consumer applications (apps) in the next couple of years, says Phil Bernstein, vice-president (building industry strategy and relations).

Autodesk aims for 120 mn users

Research In Motion Ltd plans to introduce its BlackBerry 10 smartphones on January 30, the company said on Monday, giving investors a measure of confidence that the long-awaited new devices are nearing completion.

BlackBerry 10 devices in January, says RIM

Reuters 

The National Association of Software and Services Companies (Nasscom) has said the information technology (IT) and business process outsourcing (BPO) sector would meet the lower end of its growth expectation for this financial year, owing to the currency volatility, low growth for global in-house centres and differentiated growth for various players.

IT-BPO sector set to grow 11% in 2012-13: Nasscom

Awareness is key to increase the online transactions market in India, according to Rajan Anandan, managing director of Google India.

'Awareness key to growth in online transactions'

Nokia's new Lumia smartphones are trickling into the market and early signs suggest they may sell well enough to give the handset maker more time in its fight against industry leaders Samsung and Apple.

New Lumia phones may win Nokia more time

India has climbed to second position, after the US, in terms of&nbsp; government requests to remove or block content, revealed Google in its sixth transparency report covering Jan-June 2012. Within the first 6 months of 2012, there were more than 20,000 inquiries from government entities around the world.

Indian govt is watching more users online: Google report

Cisco Systems reported first quarter results that beat estimates but expects flat earnings and slower revenue growth for the current quarter.

Cisco beats estimates, sees slower growth

The number of government requests to remove or block online content in India was the second-highest, according to Google&rsquo;s sixth transparency report. The US recorded the highest number of such requests.

Indian govt watching more users online: Google report

Analytics and big data are the latest buzz words of the technology industry. But one company that is betting big on analytics is International Business Machines Corp (IBM).

IBM bets big on analytics

Apple and Samsung continued to dominate the smartphone market worldwide by controlling a market share of 46.5% in the third quarter of 2012, said a Gartner report.

Apple, Samsung rule worldwide smartphone market

India is yet to wake up to the Twitter opportunity for country branding, a recent Burson Martseller study on &ldquo;Twiplomacy&rdquo; revealed. Only 9 governments out of 193 United Nations member states own their country name Twitter handle, the study said.

India lags behind in Twiplomacy, says study

With 81% adults in India sharing information online once a week, inter personal communication have taken a beating. Intel Corporation&rsquo;s study, titled Mobile Etiquette revealed a perception of &lsquo;oversharing&rsquo; with at least six out of ten adults and teens saying they believe other people divulge too much personal information online. Nearly 44% respondents admitted that they were embarrassed by or regretted something they have shared online.

Indians are confidently sharing information online: Intel survey

Indian IT services industry body Nasscom might have cut its FY13 guidance, but there seems to be some hope for the industry. Worldwide enterprise IT spending is forecasted to total $2.68 billion in 2013, a 2.5 per cent increase of projected 2012 spending of $2.603 trillion, according to Gartner.

Global enterprise IT spend to grow 2.5% next year

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