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India-Africa Business Conclave Discussing $9Billion Business Prospects

As the 2009 conclave between the India and the Africa marked the first logical step towards strengthening of mutualco-operation and reciprocity between the Asian nation and the African continent, furthering the move to propagate and build long term sustainable economic relations, the 2010 conclave has commenced at the Hotel Taj Palace from today. The two day conclave aims to renew and foster the economic momentum between the two sides and [...]

2009 Twitter Crime Web Instigated by Celebrity Users

Security company Barracuda Labs has recently figured out the reason behind the surge of attacks on the social media and micro blogging site Twitter in 2009. The main reason is believed to be the joining of some major A-list celebrities in Twitter at around the same time. According to the report, as many as 48 of the top 100 celebrities on Twitter joined the service between November, 2008 and April, [...]

The Right Recipe For Safe Mortgage Shopping Online

Who does not dream of living in big houses and driving expensive cars? Keeping aside how we toil for achieving ourdreams, It’s a natural human propensity to want more than what we have. It is indeed very difficult to manage your budgets well with the rising inflation and the ever increasing demands of your family at different stages of life and buying a home then remains one long earned desire. [...]

Apple Promises to Swap iPad in Case of Battery Failure

In case you have placed a pre-order for an Apple iPad and haven't thought much about what you will do if your battery goes bad, Apple has the perfect answer for you. In a move that is bound to please the customers, Apple has announced that it will replace the iPad entirely if it "requires service due to the battery's diminished ability to hold an electrical charge," for $99 and [...]

Internet Agency Delays '.xxx' Top-Level Domains For Porn Sites

Internet Agency Delays '.xxx' Top-Level Domains For Porn Sites until June. A global Internet oversight agency on Friday deferred a decision until June on whether to create a ".xxx" Internet suffix as an online red-light district. So, Porn Web sites can't park themselves at a ".xxx" address quite yet. Associated Press reported, The board of the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), initiated a 70-day process of consultations [...]

Public Records and their Impact on Us

In this age when most of the world is virtual, there is always need for information from public records. In the business world, whether it is gauging a potential partner’s reputation or finding assets and ownerships, public records have increasingly gained in importance. But their validity is not confined only to the business world’s sphere of influence. Public records span a huge range of information, from legal documents such as [...]

Employees are Brands

This is very simple but thought provoking question- How can human resources be leveraged as a source of competitive advantage? Let’s try to find answer to the question through the example of the Google. Google emerged as a technological powerhouse with two extra ordinary innovations: ‘Search’ and ‘Adwords’, to its credit. The company attributes this enviable rise to glory to its most valued assets- The Google employees. These efforts paid [...]

Venezuela's President Hugo Chavez Calls For Internet Controls

Venezuela's President Hugo Chavez, called on Saturday for regulation of the Internet and singled out a website that he said falsely reported the murder of one of his ministers. "The Internet cannot be something open where anything is said and done. Every country has to apply its own rules and norms," Chavez said. He cited German Chancellor Angel Merkel as having expressed a similar sentiment recently. Reuters reported, "Chavez is [...]

EU all set to achieve the Renewable Energy Targets

The European Union is to surpass its target of 20 percent consumption of energy from renewable sources by 2020, according to national forecasts submitted to the European Commission. The EU executive found that overall, the bloc will achieve a 20.3 percent share of renewables in its energy mix. EU countries are increasing their share of energy coming from renewable sources such as wind and water resources. According to a summary [...]

They Know How to Do It : Must Watch [Video of The Day]

The crowd at the Oprah taping in Chicago did a special flash mob dance to the Black Eyed Peas live performance of the song, "I Gotta Feeling." The group dance on the Michigan Avenue in downtown Chicago was really cool to see from the Tribune Tower's 14th floor. This is for Oprah's 24th Season Kickoff Party. [...]

tête-à-tête with the Creator of Chatroulette:Andrey Ternovskiy

Following is the excerpt from NyTimes recent interview with Andrey Ternovisky, the creater of Chatroulette. We are posting some of the interesting excerpts from the interview. Andrey Ternovskiy, a polite, excited and eager Russian high school student, scoured the Internet trying to find a Web site that allowed random video chats with strangers. When he realized a site like that didn’t exist, he decided to build it. Three months and [...]

Apple COO Gets $22 M Bonus For Covering Jobs Medical Leave

Apple Inc has awarded its Chief Operating Officer Tim Cook a bonus valued at $22 million for leading the company while Chief Executive Steve Jobs was on 6-months' medical leave last year. The bonus, disclosed in a regulatory filing Friday, gives Mr. Cook $5 million in cash and 75,000 restricted stock units, half of which will vest on March 10, 2011, and the other half on March 10, 2012. At Friday's [...]

Apple iPad racks up 91,000 sales in just the first six hours !!

It's no holiday season and its no good time for consumers, but thats not going to stop people from following the Apple's iPad mania. Apple's iPad is to enter the market on 1st of April but the pre-order frenzy is on the run. Reports have mentioned that on Friday, the first day that buyers could pre-order the device , Apple racked up an estimated 91,000 sales in just the first [...]