Apple confirms new iPad Pro, MacBook Air price in India

New Delhi (IANS): Apple on Wednesday confirmed the price of its newly-launched iPad Pro, MacBook Air and Mac Mini in India.

The 11-inch iPad Pro starts at Rs 71,900 for the Wi-Fi model and Rs 85,900 for the Wi-Fi+ Cellular model.

The…

Sensex jumps 550 points, Nifty above 10,300

Mumbai (IANS): Riding on firm global cues, the domestic markets ended higher on Wednesday, as the key equity indices -- S&P BSE Sensex and Nifty50 -- jumped over 1.60 percent each, driven by banking and finance counters.

However, the markets…

US restricts Chinese chipmaker from buying American parts

Washington (IANS): The US has restricted exports to a state-backed Chinese company that makes semiconductors in the latest escalation in Washington's trade fight with Beijing.

On Monday, the US Commerce Department said Fujian Jinhua Integrated…

IBM to acquire Red Hat for $34 bn

San Francisco (IANS): Sending a strong signal towards dominating the emerging $1 trillion Hybrid Cloud market, tech major IBM has announced to acquire Open Source Solutions leader Red Hat for a massive $34 billion.

The acquisition, IBM's…

Sensex, Nifty surge over 2% on value buying

Mumbai (IANS): The Sensex on Monday spurted over 700 points to scale the 34,000-mark, as investors boosted purchases after a string of declines had taken the barometer indices to a 7-month low last week.

The NSE's Nifty closed slightly…

Petrol, diesel prices continue to fall as global crude rates ease

New Delhi (IANS): State-run oil marketing companies continued to cut the prices of key domestic transport fuels -- petrol and diesel -- well into the second week on Sunday on lower global crude oil prices.

According to the Indian Oil Corp data,…

Microsoft acquires GitHub for $7.5 billion

San Francisco (IANS): Microsoft has closed its $7.5 billion acquisition of GitHub, a leading software development platform which brings more than 31 million developers to create, collaborate, share and build on each other's work.

Nat Friedman,…

Telcos told to be ready with new KYC process by Nov 5

New Delhi (IANS): The Department of Telecommunications (DoT) has asked telecom operators to be ready with an alternate verification process for approval from the department by November 5, as it ordered the operators to stop using Aadhaar e-KYC for…

Google sacks dozens over sexual harassment

San Francisco (IANS) Google has sacked 48 people including 13 senior managers over sexual harassment claims since 2016.

In a letter to employees on Thursday, Chief Executive Sundar Pichai said the tech giant was taking a "hard…

$4.3bn funds raised by Indian start-ups in 9 months: Nasscom

Bengaluru (IANS) Depicting growth in Indian start-up industry, a total of $4.3-billion (Rs 31,476-crore) was raised by the start-ups over a span of 9 months from January to September, IT industry apex body Nasscom said on Thursday.
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