is now a part of

Category: "Business"

  • breaking
  • Head of Windows division Steven Sinofsky leaves Microsoft

    Microsoft’s renowned person and head of Windows division Steven Sinofsky has decided to leave the company. It’s surprising to find Sinofsky suddenly leaving the giant company during the start of a new phase for the company with the launch of Windows 8 and Surface tablet. The reason behind his leave isn’t officially revealed however... 

    continue reading
  • ,
  • AMD to layoff 10-30% of workers; according to some anonymous sources

    Just after the preliminary third quarter results that AMD has recently announced, in which the company tells a sequential decrease of approximately 10% in the Q3 revenue, reports are coming in that the company may temporarily cut off 3500 jobs. According to multiple medias like Reuters, All Things D, Cnet and Bloomberg, AMD might layoff jobs from... 

    continue reading
  • Dell announced Q2 2013 financial result – consumer revenue descends 22%

    Overall revenue collected during the quarter is $14.5 billion, an 8% loss compared to Q2 2012. The enterprise segment grows to $4.9 billion, 6% year-on-year increment – a good reason for Dell to cheer up for its decision about enterprise transition. “Our performance in the second quarter provided another proof-point that our long-term strategy... 

    continue reading
  • , breaking
  • Sony to cut off 10,000 employees

    A Japanese business daily Nikkei reports that Sony’s going to cut 10,000 jobs globally by the end of the year. Many reasons have been put up for this decision – restructuring Sony’s chemical and small/medium LCD businesses, to efficiently accelerate the workflow, grow mobile devices business. The company had reported earlier a loss... 

    continue reading
  • HTC released unaudited Q1 2012 financial report – not a good start

    The unaudited report tells that the company had a 25% drop in revenue. During Q1 of 2012, HTC bagged $2.29 billion revenue, that’s comparatively lower like 67% from Q1 2011 revenue. That’s seriously not a good start for HTC. Operating income during the period was $172.9 million. Net income before tax was $188.1 million, and after taxation... 

    continue reading
  • , ,
  • Get more out of Facebook through proper Facebook marketing tips

    This post has been contributed by our guest author who writes for Interflora. Whether its Santa’s Christmas Day for your kids or mother’s day presents for your ever so lovely mommy, Interflora will ensure that those gifts will reach your loved ones on the very same day. Promote Your Facebook ‘Like’ Page With Promotional Gifts... 

    continue reading
  • , , breaking
  • Nokia is world’s largest Windows Phone vendor, leveled above HTC in just one quarter

    Strategy Analytics, a research company declared in its report that Nokia has shipped 0.9 million Windows Phone units during Q4 2011, and has become the largest vendor of Windows Phone. Nokia achieves 33.1% global Windows Phone market share. It’s certainly a big achievement for Nokia as its Lumia family started shipping from Q4 2011 – still... 

    continue reading
  • ,
  • SSTL raised Rs. 1280 crore to increase telecom operations

    Parent company of MTS, Sistema has raised a hefty sum of  Rs. 1280 crore through Non Convertible Debentures (NCD) from Deutsche Bank, on a tenor of 8 years. Earlier when the company raised  Rs. 1300 Cr. from SBI, we saw many operations by SSTL that had been implemented soon in series, like launch of MTS network and Mblaze wireless broadband in... 

    continue reading
  • , ,
  • Seagate acquired Samsung’s HDD business for US $1.4 biliion

    Back to April 2011, Seagate had announced that it would be acquiring Samsung’s HDD business and that they had started the transaction work. The transaction is completed today acquiring the complete business of Samsung’s Hard Disk Drives. The acquisition includes Samsung’s current product lines, infrastructure and employees from Samsung’s... 

    continue reading
  • ,
  • SSTL announced Q3 2011 results, received highest ever additions of data subscribers

    The parent company of MTS India, Sistema Shyam Teleservices Ltd (SSTL) has released its third quarter financial results of the year, shares joy for 18% quarter-on-quarter revenue increment. The revenue sums Rs. 3,282 million (USD 72 million) in the quarter, which includes non-voice revenues from data and mobile VAS of Rs. 1,052 million (USD 23 million).... 

    continue reading
  • ,
  • Kindle Fire is ready to gain #2 position in global tablet market by year end

    Hot damn! Been just about 2 weeks since Amazon’s Kindle Fire launch, and we’re already hearing about a big total number of units of Kindle Fire to be shipped by year end. According to the estimates of analysts at IHS’ iSuppli, Amazon will ship around 3.9 million Kindle Fire units by Dec 31, 2011. This will gain Amazon a 13.8% global... 

    continue reading
  • ,
  • Dell launched Latitude ST tablet in India

    The new Windows 7 enterprise tablet by Dell has arrived on Indian shores. Latitude ST is powered by Intel Atom Z670 single-cored processor, 2 gigs RAM, SSD storage (from 32GB to 128GB SSD), and to the expectations it features some integration for enterprise ecosystem. Latitude ST has 10.1 inch capacitive touchscreen display layered on with Corning... 

    continue reading
  • , breaking
  • Google+ launched Pages – features exciting ideas to ‘connect’

    The awaited add-on for Google+ has just arrived. Hangouts and Direct Connect makes G+ Pages quite unique for businesses and people. Page owners can make Hangouts anytime with their followers – that’s really a very interesting way to accept feedback and ideas from customers and fans. With this launch, Google search now offers direct business... 

    continue reading
  • HCL Infosystems released Q1 result – 6% sequential growth in profit; reported a loss of Rs. 22 crores in foreign exchange

    HCL Infosystems reported its Q1 of FY’12 (July 2011 to Sep 2011) today, marks 6% sequential growth in revenue generation and in profit after tax. HCL bagged Rs. 2810 crores revenue from all of its segments. After tax submission company made a profit of Rs. 12 crores. This time Board of Directors of HCL declared 50% quarterly Interim dividend,... 

    continue reading
  • , , breaking
  • Google India initiates free .in domain and site hosting for SMBs

    In partnership with HostGator, Google India is offering free website domain registration and hosting for India’s small medium scale businesses. Users will get a .in domain and hosting through HostGator for free-of-cost for one year. The initiative’s called “India Get Your Business Online.” “Our goal is to help 500,000... 

    continue reading
  • , breaking
  • Motorola Mobility going to cut 800 positions, making way for Google-Moto acquisition

    On 27 Oct, Motorola Mobility had a regulatory filing with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission and said that they are going to cut 800 job positions. Expected impact – $31 million loss for the quarter. Out of $31 million, $4 million will cost for closing facilities, and $27 million in severance of 800 positions. It seems like Motorola... 

    continue reading
  • HTC Q3 2011 reports are out, and they’re happier than ever before

    That says HTC has an amazing growth on year-on-year for company’s net profit, revenue, shpiments and everything else. As reported HTC makes an after-tax profit of 18.68 billion TWD (624.62 million USD) which is up 68% than Q3 2010. Revenue grew by 79% than Q3 2010 with a sum of 135.82 billion TWD (4.54 billion USD). Total handsets shipped were... 

    continue reading
  • Motorola Solutions added $2.1 billion sales in its Q3 results

    Q3 2011 financial result of Motorola Solutions is out. And is fair enough bringing up a little more selling than Q3 2010. Total sales went up to $2.1 billion or make that 10% higher than Q3 2010. It includes Government solutions’ sales of $1.4 billion and enterprise segment sales of $726 million. There was $24 million net loss from discontinued... 

    continue reading
  • , , breaking
  • Sony’s buying 50% stakes of Ericsson’s share in Sony Ericsson – worthy acquisition?

    You’ve just been hit by one biggest news of the day. Sony and Ericsson are ready to pull down the curtain for Ericsson’s partnership. Ericsson has started selling its 50% stakes of Sony Ericsson to Sony for EUR 1.05 billion. The transaction will be finishing by Jan 2012. So finally after a decade of Sony Ericsson’s joint venture Sony... 

    continue reading
  • Apple announced FY11 3rd quarter results

    It’s another milestone for folks at Cupertino as Apple made about 82% growth in gross revenue in 3rd quarter compared to Q3 of previous year. Their net revenue summed at $7.31 billion and gross revenue made is $28.57 billion. Here are quick stats on some of their product sales in Q3 – 20.34 million iPhones, 9.25 million iPads, 3.95 million... 

    continue reading