Google services are being disrupted in China ahead of this week’s 25th anniversary of the 1989 crackdown on pro-democracy demonstrators around Beijing’s Tiananmen Square, a censorship watchdog said on Monday.GreatFire.org said in a blog post that the government appeared to have Continue Reading
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Infosys Ltd, once a bellwether for India’s $100 billion-plus IT outsourcing industry, is losing its cachet as the employer of choice for a generation of young IT workers, with staff leaving at an unprecedented pace as the Bangalore-based company struggles to regain ground lost to rivals.Current and former Infosys staff interviewed by Reuters say morale […]Continue Reading
Grace Choi was at Harvard Business School when she decided to disrupt the beauty industry. She did a little research and realized that beauty brands create and then majorly mark up their products by mixing lots of colors. “The makeup industry makes a whole lot of money on a whole lot of bulls—,”Choi said at […]Continue Reading
A U.S. jury on Friday ordered Samsung Electronics Co Ltd to pay $119.6 million to Apple Inc, far less than Apple had sought and marking a big loss for the iPhone maker in the latest round of their globe-spanning mobile patent litigation. During the month-long trial in a San Jose, California, federal court, Apple accused […]Continue Reading
The United States has resisted lobbying by U.S. businesses to take tougher trade action against India for its intellectual property policies, deciding against risking ties with a likely new government in New Delhi. The U.S. Trade Representative avoided labeling India with the worst offender tag in its annual scorecard on protecting U.S. patents, copyrights and […]Continue Reading
Boeing Co said it expects to finish flight testing its stretched 787-9 Dreamliner in the next two months and deliver it around mid-year, one of six new jets the world’s biggest plane-maker aims to get into service by the end of the decade. Boeing will start fabricating parts for its 737MAX jetliner this year, keeping […]Continue Reading
Twitter Inc reported lackluster user and usage growth for the second consecutive quarter on Tuesday, deepening investor concerns about its struggle to gain a mass following. Twitter’s stock fell more than 10 percent after hours to $38.05, below its post-initial public offering low of $38.80 on November 25. Perhaps most worrying, the San Francisco-based company […]Continue Reading
Apple Inc has approved another $30 billion in share buybacks till the end of 2015 and authorized a rarely seen seven-for-one stock split, addressing calls to share more of its cash hoard while broadening the stock’s appeal to individual investors. The company also approved a roughly 8 percent increase in its quarterly dividend to $3.29 […]Continue Reading
India successfully conducted maiden night test of its indigenously developed nuclear-capable Agni-I ballistic missile with strike range of 700 km from a test range off Odisha coast as part of a user trial by the Army. The surface-to-surface, single-stage missile, powered by solid propellants, was test-fired from a mobile launcher at 2310 hours from launch […]Continue Reading
Smartphone and technology company stated that BlackBerry Ltd had suffered a network outage which affected some users in Canada and the Asia-Pacific region which was resolved hours later. According to a memo which was sent to some customers of BlackBerry and Rogers Communications Inc, the outage hit Canada’s leading mobile network. Rogers said that the […]Continue Reading



















