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Indian software industry to see strong revenue growth PwC
The Indian software industry is poised for a strong revenue growth driven by social media, mobility, analytics and cloud, said a report published by PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC). The Indian companies in the top 100 emerging markets list bring combined revenue of $797 million. India ranks fifth among the emerging markets based on revenues, according to the PwC Global 100 Software Leaders report, ...
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How Apple Google are saving billions in taxes
Apple A recent investigation by the US Senate shows that the maker of iPads and iPhones had paid just 2 per cent tax on income of $74 billion over the past three years, largely by exploiting an unusual loophole in Ireland's tax code. Ireland has said it is not to blame, ...
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Google Music review Feature-rich but no iTunes killer
-- Ryan Nakashima LOS ANGELES: Google's new music service offers a lot of eye candy to go with the tunes. The song selection of around 18 million tracks is comparable to popular services such ...
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The ugly truth Apple vs. PC design
iPad Mini is also very practical for a lot of people. And pretty too (consumers and reviewers seem to think so). Pretty and practical are two reasons Apple can sell tens of millions of ...
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Moon dust gathered by Neil Armstrong discovered in warehouse after 40 years
(Credit: Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory/Marilee Bailey) Several miscellaneous bits and pieces of the first moon mission have orbited back into our field of view lately. In March, it was pieces of the rocket that propelled Apollo 11 spaceward, ...
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Movie Review
The Corporation [DVD]
Like Michael Moores Fahrenheit 9/11, a film with which is its inevitably compared because of their temporal proximity and similar political stances, The Corporation probably wont tell you anything terribly new. But, it does compact a great deal of complex information into ... ...
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Why DOJ didnt need a super search warrant to snoop on Fox News e-mail
Attorney General Eric Holder, shown testifying before Congress last week, personally approved the controversial search warrant for the contents of a Fox News correspondent's e-mail ...
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News Corp. approves poison pill buyback before split
LOS ANGELES -- News Corp. said its board of directors has approved plans to split its entertainment and publishing businesses into two separate companies. The company also adopted a shareholder-rights plan designed to prevent a hostile takeover in the volatile trading period after the split is ...
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Apple 1 breaks auction record goes for $671400
One of what's thought to be only six working Apple 1 computers -- hand-built by Steve Wozniak -- flies out of a German auction house for a tidy sum. The last one went for ...
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Vintage Apple computer auctioned off for $668000
German auction house Breker said Saturday an Asian client, who asked not to be named, bought the so-called Apple 1, which the tech company's founders Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak built in a family ...
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Bits Blog Vintage Apple-1 Sells for Record $671400
Sotheby's sold an Apple-1 for $374,500 last year. A few months later in Germany, one sold for $640,000. An Apple-1 computer, made in 1976, sold for a record $671,400 on Saturday at an auction in Germany. That surpassed the $640,000 record for an Apple-1, set last November at a sale at the same auction house in Cologne, Germany. The fall 2012 sale was a sharp rise from the previous record ...
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We must define the nature and scope of this struggle, or else it will define us. Neither I, nor any President can promise the total defeat of terror. What we must do is dismantle networks that pose a direct danger.
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The U.S. president was speaking on his administration's counter terrorism policy.
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Hotel InterContinental Singapore
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