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April 1, 2016 HSBC facing probe for ‘abetting’ tax evasion
Globally, HSBC reported a pre-tax loss of $858 million in 2015 compared with a profit of $1.73 billion in 2014. Photo: AP Mumbai: While declaring its earnings for the year ended December 2015, international lender HSBC Holdings Plc on Monday said it continues to face a tax inquiry in India for allegedly abetting tax evasion. […]
NEWS 
March 30, 2016 Japan’s NTT Data Agrees to Buy Dell’s IT Services Unit for $3 Billion
Japan’s NTT Data Corp said on Monday it has agreed to buy Dell Inc’s information technology consulting division for over $3 billion to expand in North America and bolster its services business. The move will allow US computer maker Dell to trim some of the $43 billion in debt it is taking on to fund […]
COMPUTERS 
March 30, 2016 Microsoft Makes Special Edition of Windows 10 for China’s Government
Microsoft is said to have made a special version of Windows 10 for the Chinese government. Dubbed Windows 10 Zhuangongban, or “Windows 10 Specially-provided Edition,” the variant boasts of fewer consumer-centric features when compared to Windows 10 Home (hence, Windows 10 Pro), but offers additional security measures as mandated by the Chinese government. Chinese publication […]
ELECTRONICS 
March 30, 2016 New Lightweight, More Efficient Batteries Developed for Smartphones: Study
Chinese scientists have developed a light weight, low-cost battery which performs better than lithium ion batteries that currently power smartphones and other portable devices. The new aluminium-graphite dual-ion battery (AGDIB) developed by researcher of the Chinese Academy of Sciences offers significantly reduced weight, volume, and fabrication cost, as well as higher energy density, in comparison […]
ELECTRONICS 
March 30, 2016 Popular BitTorrent Client Transmission Now Available for Windows
Popular BitTorrent client Transmission is finally available for Windows users. The open-source app, which has been present on OS X and Linux for years, was released for users of Microsoft’s desktop platform recently. Transmission is a community-driven application that offers a “fast, easy, and free” downloading experience. Used by millions of users, the Windows application […]
COMPUTERS March 28, 2016 HP, a Silicon Valley Icon, Is Ready for Its Break-Up
One of the nation’s most storied tech companies will split in two this weekend, another casualty of seismic shifts in the way people use technology – and big-company sluggishness in responding. Hewlett-Packard was an early pioneer of what became the model for Silicon Valley startups: Founded in 1939 by two Stanford graduates in a Palo […]
COMPUTERS March 28, 2016 Whitman Readies Slimmed Down HP for Duel With Bulked-Up Dell
Meg Whitman long resisted a breakup of Hewlett-Packard Co., saying that selling computers to consumers and businesses was the best way to keep the Silicon Valley pioneer alive. Now, with personal-computer demand in decline and companies flocking to the cloud to run their operations, she’s on board with a split taking place next week. The […]
ELECTRONICS March 28, 2016 lack Friday Deals: Our Picks for Shopping From India
Black Friday, which follows Thanksgiving, marks the beginning of the shopping season in the US, with most retail chains offering massive discounts to entice customers. While it may not have much of a cultural presence outside of the western hemisphere, anyone on the Internet can get in on the action, and grab some truly amazing […]
NEWS 
March 27, 2016 Virtual Reality Girds for Test in Marketplace
A middle-aged white man sees himself as a young black woman being taunted by a racist. An Israeli grandmother glimpses herself as a Palestinian teen. A star athlete experiences what life would be like in a wheelchair. These are not plots of dystopian movies. They are experiences that take place in virtual reality, which technologists […]
ELECTRONICS March 26, 2016 Electric vehicles for all by 2030: Piyush Goyal
Photo: AFP New Delhi: Come 2030, and every car user in the country could have an electric vehicle. That’s the goal that the government is working towards, said minister for power, coal, new and renewable energy Piyush Goyal. Under the plan, the vehicles will be given without an upfront payment and will be paid for […]
ALL DEALS 
March 26, 2016 Quikr launches service for doorstep pickup and delivery of pre-owned goods
Pranay Chulet, Founder, Quikr Quikr launches diagnostic app to boost used mobile salesIndia’s top 5 startup foundersStart-ups take to mergers to surviveQuikr to acquire Commonfloor todayCasa Grande’s investment arm sells analytics portal to Quikr Online classifieds platform Quikr has launched its ‘Quikr Doorstep’ service to offer buyers of pre-owned goods ane-commerce like experience by facilitating […]
NEWS March 23, 2016 For Google, India to be bigger market than US by next year: Pichai
Sundar Pichai, global chief executive at Goggle, the giant search engine, believes India will become a bigger marketfor the company than the US sometime in the middle of 2016. In an interaction with half a dozen journalists here on Wednesday, he said it was not only with regard to the use of Android-based phones that […]
