August 11, 2009 | mauthor | Business, all | No Comments
Today, Facebook bought Friendfeed for $50 million. The reason behind facebook buying friendfeed is, facebook wants to confound google, as google cannot index facebook pages properly. They want to make facebook the largest web space. Frienfeed has 12 members in their team, in that 3 are ex goog
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August 10, 2009 | mauthor | Business, all | No Comments
General Motors after its bankruptcy, planned to sell car through ebay.com, GM aims to introduce a new platform for the buyers. On Aug 10 Tuesday, GM will launch a pilot program with EBay to sell the cars. Through this program buyers can place a bid for GM cars from GM dealers. And it has lot
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August 7, 2009 | mauthor | Business, all | No Comments
Apple might release a mini computer in the early 2010, which looks like a Ipod touch but slightly bigger than IPod touch. The Apple mini computer or tablet will be priced between $500 to $700. This is in competition to the other Netbooks or mini laptops manufactured by Dell, Acer, Toshiba and
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HDFC reported a 4.52 per cent decline in net profit at Rs 733.37 crore for the fourth quarter ended March 31, 2009. The housing lender had a net profit of Rs 768.12 crore in the March quarter of FY'08, HDFC Ltd said in a filing to the Bombay Stock Exchange.
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Boeing's first 787, ZA001, has been moved to the flight line at Everett, Wash. Over recent weeks the 787 has successfully completed build verification tests, structures and systems integration tests, landing gear swings and the factory gauntlet, which is the full simulation of the first flight usin
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The S&P 500, considered Wall Street's most important indicator, bounded up 3.4 percent Monday and erased the last of its losses for 2009. And the Dow Jones industrials shot up more than 200 points and had their first finish above 8,400 since Jan. 13. Summary: Dow rose 214.33, or 2.6 percen
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Tata Nano has received 203,000 bookings with a total booking amount of $502 million. The Tata Nano website got 30 million hits, nearly 1 million hits a day. A total of 610,000 forms were purchased from the booking centres. About 70 percent of the 203,000 bookings received were financed, while
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The Bombay Stock Exchange benchmark Sensex on Monday crossed the 12,000-points level for the first time in seven months, Trading sentiment received a boost from reports of a positive Chinese purchasing index, which raised expectations that the global economy is back on track. It took the Sensex
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Two Indian government organizations have placed orders for 250,000 X0-1 laptop computers. The laptops, designed by the One Laptop Per Child Association, will be distributed to students in nearly 1,500 schools. The order stands in contrast to criticism the Indian government had previously voiced o
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