Recent tumbling oil prices have encouraged petroleum giant Royal Dutch Shell PLC and BG Group PLC, Britain’s third largest energy company are “in advanced discussions” over a possible merger, in what could be one of the mega deals of 2015. Their mega-fusion could produce a company with a combined market capitalisation of more than £200bn…
There’s no such thing as free lunch — especially when it comes to smartphone apps! ‘Apps with ads take up an average of 48 percent more CPU time — 22 percent more memory use and 56 percent greater CPU utilisation,’ explained co-researcher and part of a new study team, Indian-American engineer Meiyappan Nagappan from Rochester…
A Mensa member, Devita Saraf, CEO Vu Technologies and Executive Director, Zenith Computers, started introducing “luxury in technology” to the Indian market, in 2005, and displayed her acumen and ability to target people with acute interest in luxury products even though these people have in the past searched for similar items in the internet. After…
India has hit Cadbury confectionery giant with a £62m (Rs 5.7bn ) tax claim over allegations that the Diary Milk chocolate producer fraudulently claimed excise benefits on ghost non-existent factory in Sandoli Village in Baddi , Himachal Pradesh relating to a period even before it came into existence by taking exemption for on it. The Directorate General…
“Facebook divorce” is being blamed for causing increasing number of marital breakdowns that have occurred as a direct result of information found or discovered on social networking sites like Facebook, MySpace, and Twitter. While social networking sites allow users to connect with old and new friends, they also create circumstances that may lead to a…
There would soon be huge solar-powered drones as large as the wingspan of a commercial airliner greater than 29 meters but weights lot less – beaming down internet in the remotest of areas and provide connections to rural and internet-free zones. Facebook has been testing such drones in the skies over England, according to its…
A Chennai-Delhi Air India A319 flight AI143 with no passengers inside the plane was delayed by more than two hours after pilot Captain Manik Lal and aircraft engineer VT Kannan had a difference of opinion which ended up in a fight inside the cockpit on Saturday. The aircraft engineer was injured and was admitted to…
Beijing Police found on Saturday 4th April 2015, 39 disgruntled taxi drivers lying on the ground on Wangfujing Avenue, a prosperous commercial district just a few blocks from Tiananmen Square, with bottles of pesticide beside them. They were rushed to local hospitals where they are out of danger according to police. Apparently the Chinese taxi…
For the first time 2.1 million over 55s will have access to billions of pounds from today, are able to cash in on their pensions and spend them as they wish. Prime Minister David Cameron, has blown his own trumpet, that nearly 2.1 million over 55s will able to cash in all or part of…
Dominic West, Damian Lewis and Eddie Redmayne are all contenders to take over after Daniel Craig’s fourth James Bond film Spectre is released on 6th November this year. All three actors are the products of England’s top public school, Eton. However ghost writer William Boyd has a different view of the type of person the…