WASHINGTON (TIP): German carmakers BMW , Audi and Mercedes have won US antitrust approval to buy Nokia’s maps business for around 2.5 billion euros ($2.8 billion), the Federal Trade Commission said. The deal, which was […]
DALLAS (TIP): A Dallas County judge increased the bond Thursday, August 13, for the Uber driver accused of sexually assaulting a passenger in Dallas last month. Bond for Talal Ali Chammout, 56, was increased at […]
Prime Minister Narendra Modi has all along been appreciative of the struggles and achievements of NRIs. His close association with a number of NRIs all across the world is well known. There is no country in […]
NEW YORK (TIP): Indian-origin Harvard student, Aran Khanna was denied a chance to intern at Facebook after the company learned that one of his creations exposed a critical flaw in its Messenger service, Boston.com reported. […]
“Westphalian sovereignty is the principle of international law that each nation state has sovereignty over its territory and domestic affairs, to the exclusion of all external powers. The principle of non-interference in another country’s domestic affairs, […]
SAN FRANCISCO (TIP): In 1999, Infosys brought global attention to Indian IT when it listed on the Nasdaq. It was then software services. Sixteen years later, an Indian software product company, InMobi, has created a […]
NEW YORK (TIP): The Carnegie Corporation has announced the 2015 “Great Immigrant”: The Pride of America” awardees. These are the individuals who have helped advance and enlighten our society, culture, and economy. Preet Bharara, U.S. […]
Rishi Garg, Twitter’s top M&A Chief Indian-origin executive at the micro-blogging site has resigned, the latest in a recent string of departures from the company including that of CEO Dick Costolo. Rishi Garg, the Vice […]
Thank you for allowing me to share this evening with you. I’m delighted to meet these exceptional journalists whose achievements you honor with the Helen Bernstein Book Award. What happens to a society fed a […]
Microsoft executive Jerry Nixon confirmed at the company’s Ignite conference held on May 9th, that the upcoming Windows 10 update will be the company’s last version of Windows. Windows is not going away, in fact; Microsoft plans to […]
DENMARK (TIP): Denmark has moved one step closer to becoming the world’s first cashless society, as the government proposes scrapping the obligation for retailers to accept cash as payment. The Danish government has said that […]
India’s IT industry has long been seen as a back-office backwater, even by its own engineers who started moving abroad in their droves in the 1970s. After losing top engineering talent for years to America’s […]
The European Union’s competition regulator on Wednesday accused Google of illegally abusing its dominance of the Internet search market in Europe by favoring its own comparison-shopping product when consumers shop online. The case could cost […]
WASHINGTON DC (TIP): Aligarh Muslim University has organized a two day International conference with the theme -“Intellectual Crises of the Muslim Ummah: Rethinking Traditional Solutions” The speakers from around the world will speak on a […]
SAN FRANCISCO (TIP): The India Diaspora Investment Initiative, a unique program President Barack Obama unveiled during his visit to India for the Republic Day celebrations, is seeking investment from Indian American and other investors to […]
BEIJING (TIP): Sheep or goat? China’s coming lunar new year has stirred a debate over which zodiac creature is the correct one— but Chinese folklorists dismiss the fixation on animals as missing the point. Traditional […]
NEW DELHI (TIP): Websites containing jehadi propaganda and other offensive material needed to be blocked in public interest and for protecting the sovereignty and integrity of the country, the Centre told the Supreme Court on […]
WASHINGTON: Declaring the internet critical for the nation, a top US regulator on february 4 proposed an unprecedented expansion of federal power to ensure providers don’t block or slow web traffic for America’s countless users. […]
DAVOS, Switzerland (TIP): Google boss Eric Schmidt predicted on Thursday that the internet will soon be so pervasive in every facet of our lives that it will effectively “disappear” into the background. “It will be […]
BENGALURU (TIP): India’s IT hub, Bengaluru, came in fifth in a list of cities globally that received the most venture capital in 2014, an indication of the growing vibrancy of its startup ecosystem. San Francisco […]
WASHINGTON (TIP): US FBI director James Comey on October 16 made his strongest comments yet about encryption features built into new cell phones by Google Inc and Apple Inc, warning they could hurt law enforcement […]
WASHINGTON (TIP): The Washington Post carried a story by Craig Timberg in its September 11 edition which disclosed the U.S. government threatened to fine Yahoo $250,000 a day in 2008 if it failed to comply […]
SANTA CRUZ, CALIFORNIA (TIP): As a Google executive lay dying on his yacht, an upscale prostitute casually walks over him, picks up her clothes and heroin and swallows the last of a glass of wine […]
BANGALORE (TIP): Amazon announced its first smartphone June end and not to be outdone, online retailer Flipkart, “India’s Amazon,” is now launching a smartphone line of its own. Unlike Amazon’s higherend Fire, which sports multiple […]
WASHINGTON (TIP): When it comes to the gender and ethnic diversity of its work force, Facebook’s record is on par with the rest of Silicon Valley. It’s overwhelmingly male, white and Asian. And white men […]
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