Past midnight, in a dimly lighted warehouse jutting into the San Francisco Bay, Kevin Systrom and Mike Krieger introduced something they had been working on for weeks: A photo-sharing iPhone application called Instagram. What happened next was crazier than they could have imagined.

Tech ties: Behind Instagram's success, networking the old way

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Facebook Inc is acquiring the team of developers behind customer-loyalty  application Tagtile, adding to its expertise in mobile software.

Facebook acquires team behind Tagtile

Few words fire up the happiness transmitters in your brain more than &ldquo;free.&rdquo; But &ldquo;flat-fee unlimited&rdquo; comes close.

A buffet of magazines on a tablet

Gaurav Devaras, a 3G mobile broadband user, is happy to learn about the 4G service launch in Kolkata and thrilled about the speed it can offer. &ldquo;The price is not very high either,&rdquo; he observes. But there is one mood spoiler&mdash;a fair usage policy limit that Bharti Airtel offers as part of its plan.

Data caps, high device prices dog 4G

Last week, when news about Facebook acquiring the start-up photo-sharing app Instagram for a whopping $1 billion surfaced, the digital world was abuzz with frantic activity and comments. While the investors and market watchers got busy analysing the valuation of Instagram in the wake of the deal, others talked about how Facebook&rsquo;s appetite to gobble up players had increased over the years.

Internet giants scramble for social media pie

When information technology company Infosys upset the market on Friday with its annual numbers and expectation for the months ahead, its poor cousin, Infosys BPO, sprung a pleasant surprise.

Infosys BPO saves the day with unprecedented margin

Where does Google see its future in the tablet market? Try the bargain bin.

Google's Page 'quite focused' on lower ends of tablet market

You don&rsquo;t have an MBA or any other professional degree from abroad and yet you fancy a job in an MNC? Well, if you have a flair for speaking and writing foreign languages, there is a number of interesting jobs with India Inc. Apart from the usual takers in the BPO/KPO industry, a number of telecom, e-commerce and even investment companies, besides foreign banks, are hiring language specialists aggressively.

India Inc seeks language specialists

The new iPad will be available in India from April 27, Apple Inc said on Monday, a month after it started selling the latest version of its popular tablet computer in 10 countries including the United States.

New iPad hits stores in India on April 27

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Quad Electronics, the contract manufacturer of world's cheapest tablet Aakash, said on Monday it has not been paid for its work by the tablet maker, Datawind. Quad alleged that the letter of credit issued by Datawind was dishonoured and it has not received any payment for its work. Datawind CEO Suneet Singh Tuli had yesterday claimed that his company has cleared all the payments that was due to Quad, except except for the 600 units that remain unpaid by IIT- Rajasthan.

'Not violated pact, Datawind yet to pay'

Telecom major Bharti Airtel today said it has rebranded its B2B business as 'airtel business'.

Bharti Airtel rebrands B2B business as airtel business

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Smart-phone device provider Samsung Electronics Co Ltd today announced the expansion of its Galaxy smart-phone range with the launch of the Galaxy S Advance and Galaxy Pocket, a top company official said.

Samsung launches Galaxy S Advance and Galaxy Pocket

Korean consumer electronics giant, Samsung, is eyeing to capture a 60 per cent share of the smartphone market in India in 2012, as against its current share of 44.7 per cent, according to Ranjit Yadav, country head (mobile and IT &ndash; India).

Samsung eyes 60% share of smartphone market in 2012

Even as other telecom operators whose licences were cancelled hung up their boots, Videocon Mobile plans to stay on. The operator is planning to turn aggressive in adding subscribers.

Videocon Mobile moves to gain subscribers

Having installed its fourth 'Lab-in-Box', a self sustainable computer lab in a shipping container, in the country at Ahmedabad, Hewlett-Packard (HP) India is now in talks with the Indira Gandhi National Open University (IGNOU) for installing more such labs.

HP India in talks with IGNOU for lab-in-box

The launch in India of a new BlackBerry by Research In Motion Ltd is not just a nod to its lower-end users who love it less for its security, push email and seamless roaming than for its simplicity and its Messaging. It's a strategy the Canadian company hopes will help fill both a hole in its balance sheet and a half-year wait for its next big thing - the BlackBerry 10 platform.

In Asia, BlackBerry sees a glimmer of hope

Buoyed by higher order bookings and deal wins, HCL Technologies on Wednesday reported a better-than-expected 28.7 per cent rise in third-quarter net profit to Rs 603 crore, compared to a year ago.

HCL Tech net jumps 28% on back of healthy deal wins

After almost six quarters of consistent losses, the business process outsourcing (BPO) unit of HCL Technologies has finally reported positive margins. For the quarter ended March 31, 2012, the BPO unit grew by 6.5 per cent to $49.4 million.

BPO back on track, posts 6.5% growth in Jan-March

Lifting the depressed mood set by Infosys, its bigger peer, HCL Technologies has beaten analysts&rsquo; expectations with its third-quarter numbers. It registered a record number of order bookings, worth $1.5 billion, in the last three months. Vineet Nayar, vice-chairman and chief executive officer, talks to Piyali Mandal on the reasons and what is ahead.

Choose your battles and fight them well: Vineet Nayar

Just about a year after its launch globally, Internet major Google has added another powerful tool to its social networking platform Google+ using the potential of telecom networks. The SMS notification feature in Google+ enables users to reach their Google+ followers through SMSes and get updated about their replies through SMSes no matter where they are.

Google+ unleashes power of social media through SMSes

NYSE-listed technology company Hewlett-Packard (HP) is in talks with an insurance company, which has 500-odd branches across India, to offer its managed print services (MPS), said Sekhar Agarwal, director (managed enterprise solutions), India.

HP in talks with insurance company

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