Microsoft loses key Windows Phone employee to Amazon
In a development first reported by ZDNet, one of Microsoft’s key Windows Phone employees, Brandon Watson, has quit the software giant to join the online retail biggie Amazon, where he would work on...
View ArticleFacebook sees developing countries as major growth markets
Facebook, the world’s most popular social networking site that recently filed papers to become a public-listed company, is now seeing developing countries like Brazil and India as major growth...
View ArticleIndian companies to focus on overseas mining acquisitions: E&Y report
Indian companies are likely to focus on acquisition of coal and iron ore assets in the mining space this year, especially in Indonesia, Australia and Africa, according to a report. E&Y s… [via...
View ArticleCourt approves bankrupt Hostess Brands’ auction of Twinkies, other brands
Hostess Brands Inc, owner of the Hostess, Wonder Bread, Nature’s Pride, Dolly Madison, Butternut Breads, and Drake’s brands, was granted permission by a court to wind up its 82-year-old business in…...
View ArticleKSERC Revises Tariff for Power Bill
The Kerala State Electricity Regulatory Commission (KSERC) has revised tariff for power bills from May 1 to March 31, 2014. As per the change, people who will be using more than 40 units of...
View ArticleSecurity breaches at Indian IT companies are rare: NASSC
The National Association of Software & Services Companies (NASSC), the IT industry lobby group, has argued that security breaches at Indian payment card processing companies are rare. Many foreign...
View ArticleResearchers identify strategy to guide consumers to green energy choices
Convincing people to buy into green, renewable energy plans could be as simple as making it their default option, suggests a new study co-authored by a Stanford behavioural economist. [via Domain-b...
View ArticleNASA confirms evidence of liquid water flows on Mars
The dark, narrow downhill flows, known as recurring slope lineae (RSL), often have been described as possibly related to liquid water and the new findings of hydrated salts on the slopes point to its …...
View ArticleALS rejects $1.93-bn takeover bid from private equity firms Advent and Bain...
ALS Limited, an Australian provider of analytical laboratory service yesterday rejected an unsolicited A$2.67 billion ($1.93 billion) takeover bid from private equity firms Advent International and…...
View ArticleMars Orbiter finds more carbon dioxide ice at poles
The surface in some dusty parts of Mars, becomes so frigid overnight that an extremely thin layer of carbon dioxide frost appears to form, which vapourises in the morning [via Domain-b Aerospace]
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