Five Indian Americans among Forbes 400 richest
September 20th, 2012 - 10:29 am ICT by IANS
Washington, Sep 20 (IANS) Five Indian-Americans figure in the Forbes magazine's annual list of the richest people in America with Microsoft Corp chairman Bill Gates retaining his top spot with ... Read more...
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Facebook, Apple may be balkanising the web
April 16th, 2012 - 6:38 pm ICT by IANS
London, April 16 (IANS) Google co-founder Sergey Brin has accused social networking website Facebook and computer giant Apple of being the biggest threat to online freedom, even as he ... Read more...
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Google India unveils new search format for ads
December 27th, 2011 - 9:07 pm ICT by IANS
Bangalore, Dec 27 (IANS) Google India Tuesday unveiled a new format for media advertisements (ads) to target, pay for and experience video ads on its web search engine."The new ads ... Read more...
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Friends, fans, foes hail Apple’s visionary Jobs
October 6th, 2011 - 10:25 am ICT by IANS
Washington, Oct 6 (IANS) President Barack Obama put him among "the greatest of American innovators", rival Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates acknowledged his "profound impact" as tributes poured forth for ... Read more...
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Apple to US government: change mindset of defeat
August 4th, 2011 - 9:55 am ICT by IANS
New York, Aug 4 (IANS) Cash-rich Apple can offer many tips to the debt-ridden US government in financial management, says the Wall Street Journal, not the least being overcoming the ... Read more...
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Microsoft founder criticizes Apple and Google
April 25th, 2011 - 6:05 pm ICT by ANI
London, Apr 25 (ANI): Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen has lashed out at internet rivals Apple and Google, describing them as "evil" entities.During an interview, he described Steve Jobs, the co-founder and chief ... Read more...
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New book reveals Google’s fallout with Apple and exit from China
April 10th, 2011 - 3:40 pm ICT by ANI
London, Apr 10 (ANI): A new book released this week has lifted the lid on the secretive world of Google, revealing how the founders fell out with Apple's Steve Jobs and what ... Read more...
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Justin Bieber Gets Booed By The Spectators At The Madison Square Garden
February 4th, 2011 - 7:03 pm ICT by Pen Men At Work
February 4, 2011 (Pen Men at Work): Justin Bieber’s product placement did not gel with the Knicks’ supporters on Wednesday night. Earlier, on that day, Bieber had strolled on the red carpet ... Read more...
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Outgoing Google CEO Eric Schmidt wants to expand firm’s business in China
January 28th, 2011 - 2:19 pm ICT by ANI
Beijing, Jan 28 (ANI): Google's outgoing Chief Executive, Eric Schmidt, has said that he intends to expand his web firm's business in China.Schmidt also hopes to find a Chinese partner for Google's ... Read more...
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Google announces management changes
January 21st, 2011 - 6:51 am ICT by BNO News
MOUNTAIN VIEW, CALIFORNIA (BNO NEWS) -- Google Inc. on Thursday announced management changes including the designation of a new Chief Executive Officer (CEO) to replace Eric.Google Co-Founder Larry Page will assume Google's ... Read more...
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Forbes names Bill Gates ‘Most Powerful Man in technology’
November 7th, 2010 - 11:30 am ICT by ANI
London, Nov 7 (ANI): Bill Gates has been listed as the most powerful man in the technology world by Forbes.The founder of Microsoft, Gates has been named the 10th most powerful ... Read more...
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Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen sues Google, Apple, nine others for web patent breach
August 28th, 2010 - 1:43 pm ICT by ANI
London, Aug 28 (ANI): The co-founder of Microsoft, billionaire Paul Allen, has sued 11 major web-based companies, including Apple, Google, Facebook, Yahoo, YouTube and eBay, alleging that they infringed on internet ... Read more...
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Google’s Story Coming On Celluloid!
August 22nd, 2010 - 7:09 pm ICT by GD
By Ranjan Bhaduri
Aug 22, (THAINDIAN NEWS) Anything that is associated with internet's most popular search engine Google become a headline. The latest industry buzz is that a movie is going to be ... Read more...
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Hollywood to make film on Google
August 21st, 2010 - 4:29 pm ICT by IANS
London, Aug 21 (IANS) The path-breaking invention of internet search engine Google will now be the subject of a Hollywood film.
According to Deadline Hollywood, the entertainment industry blog, the film ... Read more...
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Google’s Pac-Man logo cost $120 mn to economy
May 26th, 2010 - 2:01 pm ICT by IANS
London, May 26 (IANS) Google's Pac-Man logo led to almost five million wasted hours and cost the economy about $120 million, an analyst estimated.
Google apparently had about 505 million users Friday when ... Read more...
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China pull-out partly for personal reasons: Google co-founder
March 25th, 2010 - 10:16 pm ICT by IANS
New York, March 25 (DPA) Google's pull-out from China was partly motivated by co-founder Sergey Brin's own memories of repression in the Soviet Union, Brin told the Wall Street Journal Thursday.
Google announced ... Read more...
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Google co-founder’s memories of Soviet repression spurred decision to quit China
March 25th, 2010 - 2:56 pm ICT by ANI
Melbourne, Mar.25 (ANI): Google co-founder Sergey Brin's dramatic decision to close the search engine's operations in China was linked to the compromises he had to make in the erstwhile native Soviet Union ... Read more...
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Sanjay Gupta named WEF’s Young Global Leader
March 4th, 2010 - 12:25 pm ICT by IANS
By Arun Kumar
Washington, March 4 (IANS) Sanjay Gupta, an Indian American senior executive, has been chosen by the World Economic Forum for its 2010 class of Young Global Leaders.Gupta, a second-generation ... Read more...
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Obama tops world’s most powerful list, Manmohan at No. 36
November 12th, 2009 - 10:16 pm ICT by IANS
By Arun Kumar
Washington, Nov 12 (IANS) After winning a surprise Nobel Peace Prize, President Barack Obama has been ranked by the Forbes magazine as the world's most powerful person, with Prime ... Read more...
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‘Googlle’ marks 11yrs of creation with misspelt logo
September 28th, 2009 - 2:32 pm ICT by ANI
London, Sep 28 (ANI): Google released a special misspelt version of its logo -with a double 'l'- in an attempt to mark 11 years of its creation.The search giant's name appeared as ... Read more...
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Enzyme destroys mutated protein to cause inherited Parkinson’s disease
June 27th, 2009 - 2:47 pm ICT by ANI
Washington, June 27 (ANI): Scientists have identified a naturally occurring enzyme in the brain, which helps in the destruction of the mutated protein that is the most common cause of inherited Parkinson's ... Read more...
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Rajeev Motwani found dead in pool
June 9th, 2009 - 1:28 am ICT by GD
Rajeev Motani passed away on Friday, June 5. His body was found floating in the swimming pool, in the backyard of his house in Atherton. Apparently, the reason of the death ... Read more...
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A bit of Rajeev Motwani in every technology: Google co-founder
June 8th, 2009 - 1:35 pm ICT by IANS
By Arun Kumar
Washington, June 8 (IANS) "Today, whenever you use a piece of technology, there is a good chance a little bit of Rajeev Motwani is behind it," wrote Google co-founder Sergey ... Read more...
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Google guru Rajeev Motwani dead
June 7th, 2009 - 8:42 pm ICT by John Le Fevre
Rajeev Motwani Stanford professor who worked with Google search engine founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin has been found dead in the swimming pool of his home in Atherton, California, on ... Read more...
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Google mentor Rajeev Motwani dies
June 7th, 2009 - 8:11 pm ICT by IANS
Washington, June 7 (IANS) Stanford University computer science professor from India, Rajeev Motwani, who mentored Google's co-founders when they were graduate students, has died in a freak drowning accident at his ... Read more...
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Rajeev Motwani passes away
June 6th, 2009 - 8:31 pm ICT by GD
Rajeev Motwani passed away on June 5. He passed away in the later part of the day reportedly in a home accident. He was 45. The Stanford professor's funeral service arrangements have ... Read more...
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Google world’s first $100 bn brand
April 30th, 2009 - 6:35 pm ICT by IANS
London, April 30 (IANS) They changed the lexicon for the word - search. Now the phrase "I'll just Google it" has helped make the internet search giant become world's first $100 billion ... Read more...
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Bono top among Hollywood celebrity on America’s ‘Agents of Change’ list
March 30th, 2009 - 8:28 pm ICT by ANI
Washington, Mar 30 (ANI): Bono is the most important Hollywood celebrity when it comes to America's future, if the 'Agents of Change' list is to be believed.The Rolling Stones magazine ... Read more...
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Barack Obama tops Rolling Stones 100 Agents of Change list
March 19th, 2009 - 5:19 pm ICT by ANI
New York, March 19 (ANI): Barack Obama has topped Rolling Stones list of 100 Agents of Change, featuring those who have powerful ideas rather than the conventional meaning of the word.The ... Read more...
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Indian pharma kings made money amid recession (Lead, Superseding earlier story)
March 11th, 2009 - 9:15 pm ICT by IANS
By Arun Kumar
Washington, March 11 (IANS) As the number of the world's billionaires became smaller this year amid the global recession, Indian pharmaceutical kings Malvinder and Shivinder Singh were among a few ... Read more...
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FCC approve to use white space
November 5th, 2008 - 1:02 pm ICT by Bupha Ravirot
Voted 5-0 on Tuesday, FCC agree to introduced "white spaces" to the public.
This is the big step for public interest groups and technology companies including Google, HP and Microsoft opening up the ... Read more...
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Google’’s G1 phone will kill-off the PC, claim its designers
September 27th, 2008 - 4:46 pm ICT by ANI
London, Sept 27 (ANI): Florian Seiche, HTC (High Tech Computers) chief, the designers of Google''s G1 phone, has claimed that with its high-tech features, the new phone could make the personal ... Read more...
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Meet the man who calls himself the third co-founder of Google
September 26th, 2008 - 5:03 pm ICT by ANI
Melbourne, Sept 26 (ANI): A man, who calls himself Hubert Chang, has released a web video published on Vimeo, in which he has claimed that he is one of the co-founders ... Read more...
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Google mobile is not just an iPhone clone
September 24th, 2008 - 4:45 pm ICT by ANI
Washington, September 24 (ANI): The first mobile phone that runs Google Inc.''s software, though looks identical with Apple Inc.''s iPhone, provides several extra facilities.
Launched in the U.S. market on October ... Read more...
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Google co-founder says hes predisposed to Parkinson’’s disease
September 20th, 2008 - 12:52 pm ICT by ANI
Sydney, Sept 20 (ANI): Google co-founder Sergey Brin has launched a personal blog, on which he has revealed that he has a genetic mutation that increases his chances of contracting Parkinson''s ... Read more...
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