Google Apps referral program introduced

What’s the best way of marketing a product? Tried and tested method of referrals with a hint of reward. That’s what Google is trying to do with its latest Google Apps referral program under which it is asking its loyal … Read More

South Park: The Stick of Truth debuts at top spot in UK charts

South Park: The Stick of Truth’s debut in the UK saw the RPG relegate Thief to second spot thereby grabbing the top spot in UK all format charts.

The first RPG to claim a top spot in UK charts since … Read More

Vodafone: First 3,000 to pre-order Sony Xperia Z2 will get 32-inch HDTV for free

Sony Xperia Z2 is available for pre-order on Vodafone UK and the telco has announced that the first 3,000 customers to hit the pre-order button will be given a 32-inch Sony KDL 32 R47 HDTV for free.

Vodafone, which has … Read More

Rolls-Royce unveils £200,000 Ghost Series II

Rolls-Royce has unveiled its most important model of Ghost yet dubbed Series II at Geneva Motor Show.

The Ghost Series II is important considering its relative low price and compactness as compared to the company’s Phantom model. Priced at … Read More

David Cameron announces £45 million ‘Internet of Things’ fund

Speaking at the CeBIT 2014, David Cameron focused on three specific areas – 5G and its potential benefits, internet of things and its implications and lastly the strengthening of the EU digital market.

Britain and Germany will team up to … Read More

BlackBerry’s Las Colina campus sold to Canadian investment firm

The struggling handset maker BlackBerry has reportedly sold its Las Colinas office campus, its United States’ headquarters base of operations, months after searching for a potential buyer.

Brookfield Property Group, a Canadian investment company, will be taking ownership of the company’s … Read More

An iOS debut for Medium, soon

Medium’s, cofounder and CEO, Ev Williams, announced the publishing platform is launching its first iPhone application next week. The news was revealed by Williams on Thursday night at a tech dinner held by Fortune in Menlo Park, California.

The app has … Read More

John Sculley to launch new smartphone brand ‘Obi’ in India

Apple’s former CEO, John Sculley, is all set to launch a new brand of smartphones ‘Obi’ in India sometime in April.

According to reports in the local media Inflexionpoint, a Singapore-based investment and acquisition company with Sculley as one of its … Read More

Microsoft to roll out penultimate Windows XP patch tomorrow

Microsoft revealed a preview of the five security bulletins scheduled to be released on March 11 including the penultimate security update for Windows XP as part of March’s Patch Tuesday. Of the five security bulletins, two are rated “critical” and three … Read More

Yahoo revamps website with infinite scrolling, read-it-later features

Yahoo has completely redesigned its homepage introducing a more modern responsive design that scales across PC, tablet and smartphone screens and launched it in India, Singapore, Malaysia, Indonesia, Philippines and Vietnam.

The new design brings the revamped homepage in line … Read More

Google’s new Android SDK for wearables coming within two weeks

Sundar Pichai, Google’s Senior Vice President of Android, Apps and Chrome, on Sunday announced that the search engine giant will soon be releasing an Android Software Developer Kit (SDK) specifically for wearable devices within two two weeks.

While Speaking at SXSW … Read More

Tencent bags 15% stake in JD.com

Tencent Holdings, one of China’s leading Tech Companies, today announced acquisition of 15 percent stake in a local e-commerce website JD.com in order to give a tough competition to the current online shopping giant, Alibaba.

As part of the $214.7 … Read More

Linux 3.14-rc6 released; Torvalds hints at rc8, rc9 if things don’t calm down

Linux 3.14-rc6 has been released and with two more weeks (if things go well) to go before the final release, Linus Torvalds has hinted at the possibility of an rc8 and even an rc9 if the next two weeks are … Read More

Facebook resurrects F8; first conference since IPO slated for April 30

Facebook’s F8 developer conference has been revived and will be held on April 30 announced Ilya Sukhar, Facebook’s head of products, at the SXSW. The conference was last held in 2011 and has been MIA since the social network’s IPO. … Read More

India may investigate Facebook-WhatsApp deal

Facebook’s recent WhatsApp acquisition is on Competition Commission of India’s (CCI) radar and the government agency is likely to investigate the deal considering the number of Indians using both the services.

Like the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) in US CCI … Read More

Google faces $5 billion fine by Competition Commission of India

Google may be fined a whopping $5 billion by the Competition Commission of India (CCI), India if the ongoing antitrust investigation finds the search engine giant guilty of violating competition norms of the country.

Google was dragged into the antitrust … Read More