New Delhi, Jan 28 (IANS) Providing a boost to the e-commerce industry in India, the post departments had handled cash on delivery (COD) orders worth Rs.500 crore up to March 2015 and is expected to…
San Francisco, Jan 28 (AP) Facebook is growing at an exceptional pace as it enters adolescence, propelling it into a better position to challenge Google as the Internet’s most powerful company. Facebook’s fourth-quarter report released…
Congress chief Sonia Gandhi. (File Photo: IANS) Kolkata, Jan 27 (IANS) Assocham on Wednesday appealed to Congress president Sonia Gandhi to support the passage of the Goods and Services Tax (GST) legislation in parliament, and…
Mumbai: Tata Sons chairman emeritus Ratan Tata felicitates retired police officer Suryakant Jog during a programme in Mumbai, on Dec 23, 2015. (Photo: IANS) New Delhi, Jan 27 (IANS) Tata Sons chairman emeritus Ratan Tata…
Kolkata, Jan 27 (IANS) Carving a niche for itself in the Connected India-2020 project, Railtel Corporation’s broadband will reach 500,000 households through its Railwire network providing a host of services at the block level in…
(150508) — TOKYO, May 8, 2015 (Xinhua) — Japan’s auto giant Toyota’s president Akio Toyoda speaks during a press conference to announce its financial report for 2014 in the headquarters in Tokyo, Japan, May 8,…
New York, Jan 27 (IANS) Micro-blogging website Twitter has stopped, or significantly reduced, the number of ads it displays, in a bid to ensure its “VIP” users stay engaged with the service. Playing around with…
Washington, Jan 27 (PTI) The US state of Nevada will open a new tourism office in New Delhi to promote its travel and tourism sector in India, an official said. Nevada Lt Governor Thomas Hutchinson…
San Francisco, Jan 27 (AFP) Apple has reported the slowest sales ever of its market-leading iPhone, after years of rocketing growth, but the tech giant still posted record quarterly profit. Net income for the quarter…
Washington, Jan 26 (IANS) Disney World has been hit by two class action suits accusing it and two outsourcing firms of conspiring to replace workers with less costly foreign ones using H-1B visas, mostly from…
New Delhi, Jan 25 (IANS) Are you one of those who love the world famous weaves from Banaras or chikankari embroidery, but don’t know how to differentiate between what’s real and what’s fake? Take note…
New Delhi, Jan 25 (IANS) Fashion designer Amit GT, whose creations have been worn by Hollywood stars Eva Longoria and Bollywood actress Deepika Padukone, has made his online debut through e-commerce platform Exclusively.com. The website…
London, Jan 25 (IANS) British Chancellor George Osborne and Microsoft founder Bill Gates announced in Liverpool three billion pounds ($4.27 billion) in funding over the next five years for research and efforts to eliminate malaria….
New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi with French President Francois Hollande during a meeting at Hyderabad House, in New Delhi on Jan 25, 2016. (Photo: IANS/PIB) Gurgaon, Jan 25 (IANS) France will allocate 300 million…
New York, Jan 25 (IANS) With some of the high-profile executives putting in their papers, Twitter is set for a major overhaul this week under Jack Dorsey, the new CEO of the micro-blogging site, to…
Chandigarh: Prime Minister Narendra Modi and French President Francois Hollande at the Indo-French CEOsâ’â Forum in Chandigarh on Jan 24, 2016. (Photo: IANS/PIB) The following memoranda of understanding (MoUs) were signed in Chandigarh at the…
Havana, Jan 24 (IANS) Cuba won the right to Havana Club brand in the US this week, boosting the chance for Cuba’s most famous brand to enter the North American market. The US Patent and…
New Delhi, Jan 23 (IANS) India’s recent focus on start-ups will catalyse entrepreneurship to create jobs and help in tapping the country’s demographic dividend, which may prove to be a competitive advantage in the global…
Mumbai, Jan 22 (IANS) Media giants Bloomberg and Business Broadcast News on Friday announced that their media licensing agreement will lapse at the end of the contracted period on March 31, 2016, after seven years…
Davos, Jan 22 (IANS) The “combined value” of digitisation to society and industry could reach $100 trillion over the next 10 years — but this transformation also brings with it risks, according to new research…