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Its been just over a since the launch of Bing, Microsoft’s Search Engine and it has already over took Yahoo and become the world’s no.2 search engine. Microsoft’s Bing search engine has been rapidly rising in popularity since its launch in June of last year. In August, it overtook Yahoo as the No. 2 U.S. Internet search engine, after Google, ... Read More »

Hewitt Packard, had filed a complaint against its ex-CEO Hurd to stop him from joining its rival “Oracle”. The decision came immediately after Hurd signed for Oracle. HP fears that its trade secrets, its mission, its weakness will be disclosed by Hurd to Oracle  citing the position in which he is in will make him do that. In a civil ... Read More »

Intel has acquired McAfee for $7.6bn. This is the biggest ever acquisition by Intel. McAfee is a security firm and Intel on the other hand is a chip manufacturer. So why this odd couple ? So many questions… Why would Intel after all want McAfee ? Isn’t it way out of its specialty ? But it seems Intel has got ... Read More »

An Apple manager with responsibilities for the company’s contract manufacturing in Asia was arrested Friday and charged with accepting kickbacks. Global supply manager Paul Shin Devine was charged with accepting $1 million in kickbacks from half a dozen Asian suppliers of iPhone and iPod accessories in a federal indictment and a civil suit, the San Jose Mercury News reported. Devine ... Read More »

The German economy grew by 2.2% in the three months to the end of June, its fastest quarterly growth in 20 years, official figures show. “Such quarter-on-quarter growth has never been recorded before in reunified Germany,” the national statistics office, Destatis, said. The main reason for the higher-than-expected growth was strong exports, helped by a weaker euro. Separate figures showed ... Read More »

Top 10 Software Companies in India Rank Company 1 Tata Consultancy Services Ltd. 2 Infosys Technologies Ltd. 3 Wipro Technologies Ltd. 4 Satyam Computer Services Ltd. 5 HCL Technologies Ltd. 6 Patni Computer Systems Ltd. 7 I-flex Solutions Ltd. 8 Tech Mahindra Ltd. (formerly Mahindra-British Telecom Ltd. 9 Perot Systems TSI (I) Ltd. 10 L&T Infotech Ltd. 11 Polaris Software ... Read More »

Infosys, India’s no 2 software company is looking for a new chairman from 2011. Presently, N.R. Narayana Murthy is the Chairman and chief mentor of Infosys software technologies in India.His term ends in January 2011. The board members are now on the hunt to replace him with new person. Who is it? One of the sources said  “It has to ... Read More »