Talks about sale of Snapdeal to Flipkart collapses

” The opportunity of ecommerce in India is immense, and the surface has barely been scratched” according to Kunal Bahl, co-founder of Snapdeal. The breakdown of talks over a sale of Snapdeal to Flipkart, its largest peer – a deal encouraged by SoftBank, Snapdeal’s main investor, but resisted by Mr Bahl. This has in fact…

Sony’s profit shoot up by stellar games unit

Sony has reported its highest quarterly earnings in 18 months and boosted their profits by stellar games unit. Sony’s games titles hit top-10 weekly rankings of global console game sales. Sony’s Playstation 4, the games console whose 60m consumer base is twice as big as its nearest competitor – Microsoft’s XboxOne. Gamers are getting ready…

Cheaper i-Pads boosts Apple sales  and growth

Apple posted its third quarter earnings a found a way to restore some of its lost momentum in sales as revenue grew 6 per cent year over year and profit was up 12 per cent over the same period in 2016. Apple’s IPad sales were up 15 per cent from last year with the sale…

Life may exist in Titan Saturn’s moon

Researchers discovered the molecule, vinyl cyanide (acrylonitrile), for a “ protocell” that might be stable and flexible in liquid methane, “ according to astronomer Jonathan Lunine from Cornell  Chemical engineers. Scientists have found the first indisputable evidence of the presence of a molecule – acrylonitrile – on Titan, which may be key to exotic life…

DLR turns 30 today

The Docklands Light Railway, the sixth busiest railway in the UK, turns 30 today. TFL’s latest map of Docklands Light Railway (DLR) is aimed at making the rail link easier to navigate. The new multi-coloured design features several branches between Bank, Tower Gateway and Stratford International and Woolwich Arsenal, Beckton and Lewisham. The origins of…

Brave pilot honoured

Atlasglobal, a Turkish Airbus A320, flown by Ukranian captain Alexander Akopov was en route from Istanbul to Erkan, Cyprus, with 127 tourists on board, when it encountered severe violent storms and giant hailstones which smashed the windscreen, but the pilot kept his nerve and landed safely last week. Soon after take-off at 1,300 metres above…