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INFO-TECH MERGERS & ACQUISITIONS: HCL Tech buys over 10% stake in Axon New Delhi, Oct.16 HCL Technologies — the sole bidder left in fray after Infosys pulled out of the race for Axon — has purchased 10.43 per cent stake in the UK-based SAP consulting firm, at 631 pence ... NEW PROJECTS: Moser Baer plans $800-m investment Bulk of it for photovoltaics business. New Delhi, Oct. 16 Moser Baer on Thursday said it plans to invest over $800 million in capex for its various businesses including optical media and photovoltaics, over the next ... NEW PRODUCTS & SERVICES: WiMax laptops in India The Minister of Communications and IT, Mr A. Raja, has announced the launch of WiMax embedded laptop computers in India. The laptops with Intel chips inside from computer manufacturers such as Lenovo and ASUS are expected to stimulate the growth ... NEW BUSINESS: HP India bags Godrej project ... EVENTS: India team vital to Cadence roll-out Bangalore meet is one of world’s largest gatherings of EDA community. Bangalore, Oct. 16 The Noida-based Indian developer team of US-based electronic design automation leaders, Cadence, played a crucial role in the recent rollout of a ... INTERNET: Optima online service to insure two-wheelers Retail insurance site www.click2insure.in is in the process of introducing two-wheeler insurance cover online in the national ... TELECOMMUNICATIONS: Nokia to invest $70 m in new unit Chennai, Oct. 16 Nokia Siemens Networks on Thursday inaugurated a new facility for the manufacture and distribution of mobile communications infrastructure at Oragadam near Chennai. Over the next three years the company plans to invest ... E-COMMERCE & E-BUSINESS: Cleartrip.com readying cash cards for rail e-tickets Aimed at those without credit/debit cards, Net banking. Ahmedabad, Oct. 16 Online travel agency Cleartrip.com, which launched online booking of tickets for train travel on September 24 in partnership with Indian Railway Catering and Tourism ... FOREIGN DIRECT INVESTMENT: Cabinet approves FDI in Aditya Birla Telecom New Delhi, Oct 16 The Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs has approved Aditya Birla Telecom Ltd’s proposal to bring in foreign direct investment of Rs 2,704.21 crore from a Mauritius-based private equity entity fund. This gives P5 ...
TELECOMMUNICATIONS: Make music free — almost! Recent initiatives may radically change the way popular music is financed and distributed. Anand Parthasarathy was in London to size up the latest in digital song downloads.. DRM is almost dead — Digital Rights Management, that is — ... M-COMMERCE: Mobile ad: As you like it It is not only pizzas that you can ask for to be delivered at your doorstep but also advertisements as per your choice. And hey presto! There they would be in your mobile phones, giving you all the latest information ... INTERVIEW: ‘India was the obvious choice’ Emdeon on what it was looking for from its outsourcing vendor.. Why does a client outsource functions to India? What does he want from an Indian service provider? Quality? Inexpensive labour? How does he know the vendor qualifies? Do client ... COMPUTER USAGE: Block annoying Ads While browsing, don’t you wish you could simply block out all those annoying advertisements and ... CYBER QUEST: Quiz V.V. Ramanan. 1. In which five languages is Google Indic Transliteration ... INTERVIEW: ‘Slowdown will last at least 3-4 quarters more’ BPO player Adventity is, however, unfazed and says it is on target to expand to 8,000 people.. Despite the hit that it has taken in the mortgage space (with contribution from mortgage business coming down from 20 per cent to 12 per cent), the ... BOOKS: Search engines as publishers This role throws up some ticklish legal questions too.. The conflict between making something ‘freely available’ and doing so in a way that makes it ‘free of cost’ to the user remains an issue, observes Richard Balkwill ... INTERNET: Too big to understand Still not get able to get a hold on the scale of the turmoil in the financial markets worldwide? Here’s a round-up of some visual and interactive representations of the crisis from around the Web. First up, here’s a late-2007 ... SOFTWARE: ‘A move that is paying off’ Sasta roe barambar (The one who goes in for cheap services will repent umpteen times)This could very well have been in the back of Subrata Dey’s mind when he decided to rope in IBM as the partner for implementing SAP’s ... Comments & Letters to the Editor to: bleditor@thehindu.co.in Subscribe to: Business Line |
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