• COMPUTERS
    How Good a Deal Did You Get on Your Smartphone? ZTE Still Has You Beat

    It doesn’t matter how great a deal you got on your last business smartphone, there’s one company that almost certainly has it beat. How much would you pay for a phone with the following specs? 6-inch display with a 1,920×1,080-pixel resolution Octa-core Snapdragon 617 processor 13-megapixel rear camera 5-megapixel front camera 2GB of RAM 32GB […]

  • HOME & GARDEN
    Did You Know There was a Black Friday for Lawn and Garden?

    Here are some statistics that might make anyone who operates a small business sit up and take notice. The average household spent $347 on lawn and garden last year. Sure, that may seem like a drop in the bucket when compared to the $335 billion in home improvement sales expected this year. But if you’re […]

  • ELECTRONICS
    HP Did Better Than The Market on PC Sales, But Mum About Mobile

    Meg Whitman, the CEO of Hewlett-Packard, said in the latest quarterly earnings conference call that the market for personal computers is “in a slow decline.”   Yet, she said, HP “outperformed the market pretty dramatically this quarter.” In other words, even though the market for personal computers is declining, HP did not decline like the market.  HP’s sales […]

  • HOME & GARDEN
    Did You Know There was a Black Friday for Lawn and Garden?

    Here are some statistics that might make anyone who operates a small business sit up and take notice. The average household spent $347 on lawn and garden last year. Sure, that may seem like a drop in the bucket when compared to the $335 billion in home improvement sales expected this year. But if you’re […]

  • NEWS
    Uber, Lyft Settlement Did Not Require Either Side to Pay

    A pitched legal battle between ride-hailing rivals Uber and Lyft, involving accusations of hacking and corporate spying, ended with a settlement this week that did not require either company to pay money, according to sources familiar with the agreement. The settlement coincided with news that Lyft was working with investment bank Qatalyst Partners to pursue […]

  • COMPUTERS
    Did DU Have computers In 1978, Asks AAP wondering PM Modi’s degree

    The AAP has been doggedly pursuing the talk over PM Modi’s diploma. (record photo) NEW DELHI: Launching an assault on Delhi university over high Minister Narendra Modi’s degree, the AAP on Wednesday sought to understand if the college had computers in 1978. once more highlighting the “discrepancies” inside the commencement degree and marksheets of Modi, […]

  • ALL DEALS
    18% applicants did not write CAT: IIM

    A file photo of the Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad. Photo: Raj K. Raj/HT New Delhi: Around 18% of those who registered to appear for the Common Admission Test (CAT) that serves as a gateway to elite Indian Institutes of Management (IIMs) and scores of leading B-Schools in the country chose not to do so, […]