HCL Technologies&rsquo; stock has been on a run since the company announced its good first quarter results. Anant Gupta, president and chief operating officer, talks to Shivani Shinde on strategy, challenges and customers.

With contract renewals in the US and Europe, we want to focus there for now: Anant Gupta

Business Standard

The number of active Facebook users in India has swelled to 65 million, according to Kirthiga Reddy, director (online operations) at Facebook India. This is an eight-fold jump in a span of two years.

Facebook has 65 mn active users in India

Lenovo Group Ltd said slowing demand in the personal-computer market, where it overtook Hewlett-Packard Co (HP) as the global leader last quarter, was good reason for the company to expand into smartphones.

Lenovo makes smartphone play

SophosLabs, a global IT security and data protection firm, in its latest research has said that one in every six spam messages are now relayed via computers in India, according to its latest 'Dirty Dozen' report of&nbsp; spam-relaying countries for the third quarter of 2012. Since the previous quarter, India has grown its lead at the top of the hall of shame, and now relays 16.1 per cent of all spam captured in SophosLabs&rsquo;s global network of spam traps.

India spews more spam than ever before 

Mobile may be the future of technology, but even with the worldwide proliferation of high-powered devices like smartphones and tablets, some companies are struggling to maintain consistent revenue streams.

Mobile revolution, economy trip up tech giants

Reuters 

Microsoft Corp's quarterly profit fell a greater-than-expected 22 per cent, as sales of computers running its Windows operating system dipped and some revenue was deferred ahead of upcoming releases of its core Windows and Office products.

Microsoft profit slips as PCs fizzle Windows 8 awaited

After Bangalore and Kolkata, Bharti Airtel yesterday the launch of Airtel postpaid 4G services in Pune, &nbsp;the first 4G service in Maharashtra.

Airtel launches 4G service in Pune

Industry-leading volume growth, strong deal pipeline and a confident management outlook marked Tata Consultancy Services&rsquo; (TCS&rsquo;s) September quarter results. The company steered ahead of peers such as Infosys and HCL Technologies on all fronts, making it a preferred pick of most analysts.

TCS outshines peers in Sept quarter

Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) continued its bull run in a difficult market and breezed past Street estimates on earnings.

TCS beats the Street, continues bull run

Pune-headquartered ByondTech Electronics Private Limited, a part of the Canpex Group, expects 15 per cent market share in the low-cost tablet market. The company is looking at selling 500,000 tablets in a year&rsquo;s time, said chief executive officer Prashant Bora.

ByondTech targets 15% share in tablet market 

Commonfloor.com, a real estate and apartment management portal, raised second round of funding from existing investors Accel India and Tiger Global Management, a New York-based investment firm. The company did not disclose the amount raised.

Commonfloor raises second round of funding

With Windows 8, Microsoft&rsquo;s new operating system (OS), the technology giant is attempting to rethink its platform to bring in big changes to the user interface and navigation. One of the biggest components of this platform&rsquo;s success would be application developers.

App developers get ready for Windows 8 debut

We spent some time with it on a Samsung tablet, testing Microsoft&rsquo;s claims of the operating system&rsquo;s intuitive ability, especially with regard to the touch generation.

Windows 8: Touches users, stands tall

In the past year, several start-up accelerators, especially in the technolgy space, have been launched in the country, with four or five announcing plans to start operations since the beginning of this month alone. Some of them are: Pearl Uppal and Gaurav Kachru's 5ideas, Rajesh Sawhney&rsquo;s GSF Accelerator and The Morpheos founded by Sameer Guglani and Nandini Hirianniah. According to industry experts there are around 15 start-up accelerators in India.

Accelerators give a new edge to emerging business ideas

Bharti Airtel, India&rsquo;s largest telecom operator has overtaken Spain&rsquo;s Telef&oacute;nica to become the world&rsquo;s fourth-largest operator in terms of subscribers.

Bharti Airtel becomes world's 4th largest mobile operator

A report by search giant Google based on the search activities on Google Maps in Mumbai, Delhi and Bangalore says that hotels were the most searched for destinations across all these cities.

Hotels, restaurants most searched for destinations on Google Maps

Unlike V Balakrishnan&rsquo;s exit from Infosys Ltd, Seturaman Mahalingam&rsquo;s retirement as chief financial officer of TCS would likely be smoother. But it also means an era at TCS is coming to an end.

Mahalingam confident of TCS' high margins

For two consecutive quarters, Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) has recorded volume growth of five per cent, leaving its peers behind. Chief Executive Officer and Managing Director N ChaNdrasekaran is confident the company&rsquo;s growth would exceed the National Association of Software and Services Companies&rsquo; growth estimate for the industry. In an interview with Shivani Shinde, he talks about customer information technology (IT) spends and growth momentum.

I am not going to use any cautionary comment at this point: N Chandrasekaran

A Google report reveals hotels were the most searched on Google Maps for destinations in Delhi, Mumbai and Bangalore. While most Mumbaikars and Delhiites were seen searching for restaurants and hotels, most search queries on Google Maps from Bangalore were for shopping malls and educational institutes.

Google Maps: Hotels most searched destinations

Infosys Ltd, India&rsquo;s second largest information technology services company, has completed the acquisition of Lodestone Holding, a Switzerland-based management consulting firm, which it had announced to acquire last month.

Infy completes acquisition of Lodestone 

Apple Inc is expected to make its biggest product move on Tuesday since debuting the iPad two years ago, launching a smaller, cheaper tablet into a market staked out by Amazon.com Inc and Google Inc.

Apple set to unwrap mini-iPad to take on Amazon, Google

Tech News: Latest Techn news & updates on Smart Watches, Gaming Console, iOS updates with launch date and price straight from Business Standard.com.

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