At a time when the West Bengal government is going all out to provide sops to keep Infosys and Wipro in the state, the administration is planning to offer an extended version of the 2009-incentive scheme for the information technology (IT) sector in the compensation package.

Bengal government may subsidise EPF, ESI for first five years to retain Wipro, Infosys

Business Standard

A court here on Monday dismissed a case against Internet giant Yahoo! for allegedly hosting objectionable content on its site and penalised the petitioner for dragging it to the litigation along with other social networking sites.

Court dismisses case against Yahoo!

Press Trust of India

Telecom operators added 9.88 million mobile subscribers in January, taking the total telephone user base in the country to 936.12 million, sectoral regulator Trai said today.

Mobile cos add 9.8 million users in Jan

Telecom operators added 9.88 million mobile subscribers in January, taking the total telephone user base in the country to 936.12 million, Telecom Regulatory Authority of India said on Tuesday. India's mobile subscriber base increased to 903.73 million in January, up from 893.84 million in the preceding month, registering a growth of 1.11 per cent, the regulator said in a statement.

Mobile firms add 9.8 mn users in Jan

Infosys Limited is planning to double the current strength by recruiting 5,000 people at its 448-acre Pocharam campus here by the end of this calendar year.

Infosys to hire 5,000 people for new Hyderabad campus

My IndiEye Travel Companions, a start-up from the Indian School of Business (ISB), is developing a GPS-enabled navigation application that will enable tourists to get a virtual tour of monuments with audio-visual experience.

GPS-enabled apps for tourists soon

Apple Inc, set to release a new iPad tablet on Wednesday, doesn&rsquo;t have an Android-based competitor with more than five per cent of the market, Forrester Research Inc said in a report published on Tuesday.

Apple to release new iPad

Google Inc., stepping up competition with Apple Inc. and Amazon.com Inc. in digital media, unveiled a site called Google Play that lets users get Android applications, music, books and movies in one place.

Google creates hub for buying apps, entertainment in one place

In his previous role, Karandeep Singh was heading the Indian arm of IT services and solutions provider Sapient with global revenues of over $1 billion. Now, this gold medalist in commerce from Delhi University is CFO of India&rsquo;s leading e-commerce company, Flipkart.

BS People: Karandeep Singh

What on earth is going on in Europe? Countries such as Germany and France who have staunchly resisted sending jobs overseas are suddenly capitulating&mdash;at least as far as the IT and software sector is concerned. &quot;European companies are now more amenable to offshoring because they are realizing that it is the only way for them to get efficiency,&rdquo; says V Balakrishnan, CFO and member of the board, Infosys.

Embattled Europe is now a fan of offshoring

Sistema Shyam Teleservices (SSTL), which operates under MTS brand, on Tuesday announced expansion in the Maharashtra and Goa circle.

Sistema Shyam expands business in Maharashtra and Goa circles

Last week, Facebook re-launched its advertising platform. After it rolled out timeline feature for personal user profiles, the same will now be available for all brand pages by end of March. In addition, a brand new product called Reach Generator will allow brands to distribute via News Feed to up to 75 per cent of all their fans. Reach Generator, claims Facebook, will double the average reach of posts and engagement should more than double as more fans will engage, and expose the posts to their friends too.

Facebook wants more from users launches new ad platforms

Social network website Facebook, which has around 850 million users worldwide, went down in several mainly European countries today for around two hours, users and the company said.

Facebook goes down in several European countries

GSM industry lobby group Cellular Operators Association of India (COAI) has asked the Ministry of Finance to abolish the need for PAN (Permanent Account Number) at for taking a new mobile connection.

Remove PAN requirement for new mobile connection: COAI

State-run Mahanagar Telephone Nigam Ltd (MTNL) plans to spend about Rs 800 crore in the next financial year to upgrade its network and add more capacity in the GSM segment.

MTNL plans Rs 800-cr capex in FY13

Infosys chief Kris Gopalakrishnan on Wednesday expressed hope that DTC and GST will be pushed through in the forthcoming budget, while Genpact vice chairman Pramod Bhasin feared economic reforms will be tough going forward.

Infy hopes reforms in Budget Genpact unsure

Taking many by surprise, Japanese major- Sony has surpassed otherwise market leaders like Hewlett-Packard (HP) and Dell in the consumer notebook segment in the fourth quarter of 2011, from October to December 2011.
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Sony Vaio beats HP, Dell in notebook segment

Apple Inc debuts its most significant overhaul of the iPad on Wednesday in San Francisco. For competitors trying to get a foothold in the tablet market, the most important announcement may be what Chief Executive Officer Tim Cook does with the older models already on the shelves.

Apple pinches rivals as new iPad set to storm market

Gadget lovers in India can now own an iPad 2 for Rs 24,500, with Apple Inc slashing its price worldwide on Thursday following the launch of a new third-generation, 4G-ready tablet.

Apple cuts iPad 2 prices 

Reuters 

Mexican tycoon Carlos Slim retained his position atop Forbes magazine's annual list of the world's billionaires on Wednesday with an estimated worth of $69 billion, while his Mexican rival Ricardo Salinas Pliego enjoyed the largest increase in wealth. Microsoft Corp cofounder Bill Gates ranked second at $61 billion and Warren Buffett third at $44 billion. France's Bernard Arnault, the richest person in Europe, repeated at No. 4. They were the same top four as last year.

Web moguls, Spanx whiz in Forbes list

The Justice Department has warned Apple and five of the biggest US publishers that it plans to sue them, accusing them of colluding to raise the prices of electronic books, the Wall Street Journal said, citing people familiar with the matter.

US Justice Department may sue Apple, publishers on e-book pricing: Report

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