San Francisco: Google has bought startup VirusTotal, picking up a fledgling but widely used cybersecurity industry player in a move that could beef up protection for its Internet services. The acquisition of VirusTotal, which aggregates warnings on submitted files and websites from most antivirus solutions, including Intel Corp's McAfee and Symantec Corp, could significantly shore up the search giant's ability to weed out infectious content from Gmail, social network Google+...
01:14 PM, Sep 08, 2012
New Delhi: Finance Minister P Chidambaram on Monday said there will be no "rash" action in Vodafone tax case and the matter will be decided after considering all aspects including recommendations the Shome Committee on indirect transfer of assets. "They (I-T assessing officers) and are not going to act rashly. These are not small amounts on which you can take a rash decision," he told reporters. He was asked whether...
04:31 PM, Sep 03, 2012
New Delhi: The Cabinet will meeting on Tuesday and may approve a new proposal to increase reservation for women in urban local bodies to 50 per cent. It currently stands at one-third. The proposal also suggests that the chairperson's post be decided on the basis of proportional representation. The Cabinet is also expected to take up the Land Acquisition bill. The revised bill aims at ensuring that the process of...
08:41 AM, Aug 28, 2012
Kolkata: West Bengal Chief Minster Mamata Banerjee on Friday claimed the Singur land acquisition law framed by her government was 'valid'. "Singur law is valid and we are happy at the Supreme Court order," Banerjee said at the airport after returning here from Delhi. "This is a victory of the farmers and the victory of Ma-Mati-Manush (mother-earth-humanity)," she said after the Supreme Court sought the Tata Motors' response on a...
05:32 AM, Aug 25, 2012
New Delhi: Major changes are expected in the Land Acquisition Bill and compensation for land acquired won't be implemented with retrospective effect. The changes mean that those who have already given up land won't benefit if the Bill is passed by Parliament and becomes a law. Real estate companies and state government will be relieved with the change as they will be spared the huge financial burden. Several state governments...
04:19 PM, Aug 23, 2012
New Delhi: West Bengal government on Monday approached Supreme Court challenging Calcutta High Court order which set aside Singur land acquisition act. The state government in its appeal says Singur act reflects the will of the people. "Singur Act is not in conflict with any central laws," it says. ...
08:42 PM, Aug 06, 2012
New Delhi: In a step that could propel reforms on fast track, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Thursday approved relaxations in the transfer policy for the government land for infrastructure projects. All land transfer from ministries to PSUs has also been allowed. This will now ensure that there is no procedural delay in acquiring government-owned land for infrastructure projects. There will be no Cabinet approval required for transfer of government-owned...
01:09 PM, Aug 02, 2012
New Delhi: An interesting corollary of Google's acquisition of social-media startup Wildfire is that Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg's sister Arielle Zuckerberg is now a Google employee. Arielle Zuckerberg, one of Mark Zuckerberg's three sisters, works as a junior product manager with the Redwood City, California-based Wildfire that helps businesses such as Cirque du Soleil and Spotify manage social media efforts across the Internet. This interesting aspect was revealed by the...
08:04 AM, Aug 01, 2012
New York: Google is buying a company that specialises in social media marketing as it intensifies competition with Facebook for ad dollars and attention. The company, Redwood City, California-based Wildfire, helps businesses such as Cirque du Soleil and Spotify manage social media efforts across the Internet. It's an important area for Google as people spend more time on social networks such as Facebook and as advertisers follow them. Google's social...
06:24 AM, Aug 01, 2012
Union Rural Development Minister Jairam Ramesh has defended his decision to retain a role for the government in land acquisition for Public Private Partnerships. "If you are going to leave everything to private purchase it is the small land owner and livelihood losers who are going to be badly affected," he says. CNN-IBN spoke to him regarding the matter. Rupashree Nanda: You have turned down certain important recommendations of the...
01:44 PM, Jul 19, 2012
San Francisco: New York tech incubator Betaworks acquired the website Digg on Thursday in a deal that included the remaining brand assets, a humble close to what was once a celebrated online property that heralded the social media era. Launched in 2004 by then 27-year old Kevin Rose, Digg rose to prominence as an aggregator of online content, becoming at one point one of the more highly-trafficked stops on the...
06:24 AM, Jul 13, 2012
San Francisco: Oracle Corp said it had acquired social marketing firm Involver, notching the third deal in as many months in a red-hot area for enterprise software makers. Terms of the deal were not disclosed. San Francisco-based Involver, founded in 2007, provides tools for developers to create advertising campaigns on social media networks such as Facebook. "Companies are looking to harness the full potential of social media to increase brand...
05:52 AM, Jul 11, 2012
Toronto: Microsoft Corp will buy Perceptive Pixel Inc, a six-year-old developer of large touchscreen displays whose customers include cable network CNN, chief executive Steve Ballmer said on Monday. Microsoft also said it plans to launch the latest version of its flagship Windows operating system in October, which Ballmer painted as the most important launch for the Redmond, Washington-based company since Windows 95 almost two decades earlier. "This is an epic...
06:32 AM, Jul 10, 2012
New Delhi: The government has overruled the recommendations of the Standing Committee on Land Rehabilitation in the Land Acquisition Bill that is set to be tabled in Parliament. The government has now said that it can acquire land for public-private projects, taking a line that sharply contrasts that of Trinamool Congress Mamata Banerjee. In what could be a setback to projects in Noida Extension and Bhatta Parsaul in Greater Noida,...
01:35 PM, Jul 07, 2012
New Delhi: The Defence Ministry will consider proposals worth over Rs 20,000 crore in a meeting on Friday to decide on critical equipment such as air defence missiles for the army. In a meeting of the Defence Acquisition Council (DAC) to be held on Friday, the Ministry is also expected to take up for discussion proposals for procuring unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) and Dornier aircraft for the Air Force, sources...
08:49 PM, Jun 21, 2012
Passing through Bulandshahar, a rapidly urbanising district in Uttar Pradesh known for its rustic politics and dairying, this reporter chanced upon a group of farmers sitting in protest outside a newly constructed apartment. The farmers occupied a tent that was erected outside the apartment complex. Their complaint was that they were being coerced to sell land for cheap by private players. "We will get only a measly Rs 20 lakh...
03:28 PM, Jun 19, 2012
San Francisco: Published reports say Microsoft is in talks to buy Yammer, a company that develops private social networks for companies. Bloomberg News and The Wall Street Journal, citing people familiar with the matter, report that Microsoft could pay more than $1 billion for San Francisco-based Yammer. The networks developed by Yammer allow a company's employees to communicate and collaborate in a manner similar to the way Facebook works with...
12:46 PM, Jun 15, 2012
Texas: Dell Inc plans to slash more than $2 billion in costs over the next three years, primarily from the supply chain and sales group, as it sharpens its focus on the technology needs of corporations. The shares of the No. 2 US PC maker, which plans to pay its first dividend to shareholders this year, rose about 4 per cent on Wednesday before giving up some of the gains....
11:49 AM, Jun 14, 2012
California: The world's biggest search engine, Google Inc , will buy Meebo Inc, a startup that helps online publishers connect their websites with social network sites, Meebo said on its blog. Last month, technology blog All Things Digital reported that Google was in talks to buy Meebo in a deal worth about $100 million. California-based Meebo provides software that lets users share pages on social networking sites, including Facebook, allowing...
11:53 AM, Jun 05, 2012
Allahabad: In yet another indictment of land acquisition policy of previous Mayawati government, the Allahabad High Court on Wednesday quashed acquisition of 68 hectares of village land on pretext of "planned industrial development" in Greater Noida and held that invoking of urgency clause for the purpose was "tainted with malafides". A Division Bench comprising justices Sunil Ambwani and Het Singh Yadav passed the order on a writ petition filed by...
08:12 PM, May 30, 2012
