Internet giant Yahoo Inc is hoping to strike a deal to sell a minority stake to a private-equity firm by year's end, a media report reported.

Yahoo eyes minority stake sale by year-end: report

Press Trust of India

Group buying websites, mostly launched in the last one year, plan aggressive expansion as they see record traffic for their offerings.

Group buying sites eye expansion

Business Standard

Cisco Systems Inc, the world&rsquo;s largest maker of networking equipment, said its first cash dividend ever will be 6 cents a share, aiming to give a boost to investors after the shares fell 35 per cent in the past year.

Cisco declares first-ever cash dividend as sales lag

&ldquo;It was an SMS alert announcing the deal of the day that prompted me to purchase a vacation package at a group buying website,&rdquo; says Ganesh Jayaraman, a sales manager at a Mumbai-based company. With a six-month validity of his four days &amp; three nights travel coupon for Goa, Jayaraman will begin planning his vacation soon.

Save on travel via group deals

Shruti Marathe, an MBA from Symbiosis College, created her business networking profile on LinkedIn two months after she completed her course. &ldquo;I wrote about my college projects in details and even had work recommendations posted by seniors, who guided me during my internship,&rdquo; she recalls. Within a few days, Marathe got a call from a company, National Instruments, to come for an interview. &ldquo;Soon, I had two offer letters in my hand,&rdquo; recalls Marathe, now working as a sales executive with the Star group.

Keep that social network profile updated

A communication system for people with speech disabilities, using a digital camera to scan vision-threatening symptoms, and a system that sends a mobile alert to users on a gas leakage are some technology innovations that the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) has shortlisted from India.

Next gen innovation: Adapting technology for human need

Information technology (IT) companies Tata Consultancy Services (TCS), Infosys Technologies and Wipro need to get their non-linear strategies in place or each would end up with one million staff by the end of this decade, according to a report. Non-linear initiatives mean delinking revenue growth to headcount growth.

'IT majors need to rethink staff growth'

AT&amp;T. agreed to buy T-Mobile USA from Deutsche Telekom for about $39 billion in cash and stock to create America&rsquo;s largest mobile-phone company, trumping Sprint Nextel&rsquo;s effort to acquire the business.

AT&T to buy T-Mobile USA for $39 bn in cash, stock

Google has accused the Chinese government of disrupting Gmail in the country, making it difficult in the last few weeks for users here to gain access to the company&rsquo;s popular e-mail service.

Google accuses Chinese of blocking Gmail service

Internet search giant Google has topped the BrandFinance Global 500 list of the world&rsquo;s top brands. It was ranked the most valuable brand in the world at $44.3 billion, edging Microsoft ($42.8 billion) into second place.

Google tops global brand index, Coca-Cola loses some fizz

Facebook Credits, a virtual currency which enables the users of the social networking site to watch films and buy various applications, may become available in India too.

FB's virtual currency may become real for Indians too

Ecommerce firm eBay expects its Indian business to grow 50-60 percent in the next 12 months as users become more comfortable with making purchases online.

eBay India expects 50-60% growth this year

Not surprisingly the top-10 league of the report is crowded with international names.

Google replaces Walmart as most valued brand

Chennai-based Internet service provider Sify Technologies Ltd has announced a tie up with Saudi Telecom (STC), a telecom services provider, to expand its network reach in West Asia, Africa and India.

Sify to expand in West Asia

Essar group company ETHL Communications Holdings (ECHL) today announced it had opted for an early redemption of bonds it had issued against its 10.97 per cent stake in Vodafone Essar. The company paid around Rs 4,230 crore to buy back rated, listed zero-coupon non-convertible debentures.

Essar buys back bonds in Vodafone Essar

With an annual remuneration limit of Rs 10 crore, T K Kurien, the recently-appointed Chief Executive Officer of Wipro&rsquo;s information technology business, has become the highest paid executive (excluding stock options) in the Indian IT services segment.

Wipro's CEO among the highest paid CEOs in Indian IT services

Hemant Sutar of Chembur had been waiting to activate 3G service on his iPhone. He hoped to use his phone as a modem and power his iPad with 3G speeds. This Vodafone 3G customer from Mumbai had signed up for the operator's service on a trial basis to experience faster, smarter and better speeds. But what he received was not what he had expected. As soon as he activated his 3G connection, his 2G network failed and for the next few hours he could not make calls.

3G's maiden run leaves users stranded

AT&amp;T is so determined to surpass Verizon Wireless that it&rsquo;s willing to pay double its own valuation for the only US wireless operator losing customers.

AT&T paying twice valuation for customer-losing firm

Tata Communications (erstwhile Videsh Sanchar Nigam) today said the &ldquo;surplus land&rdquo; which came when it bought the company from the government did not vest in it and it made no money from the land, either.

Tata Communications says DoT being ingenuous on VSNL surplus land

A fresh controversy raged today over Telecom Minister Kapil Sibal ordering a probe into the disinvestment of erstwhile VSNL during the NDA regime in favour of Tatas, but the then telecom minister Arun Shourie hit back calling Sibal a &ldquo;bully&rdquo;.

Sibal, Shourie spar over VSNL divestment

Mobile-commerce company My Mobile Payments (MMPL) has launched its operations in Uttar Pradesh.

M-commerce firm starts UP operations

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