Investors' desire for companies to prioritise returning cash to shareholders through share buybacks, dividends or mergers and acquisitions (M&A) is at the highest level since July 2015, said a survey by BofA Securities (BofA). Nearly 30 per cent of respondents wanted companies to do so. As many as 226 respondents with $572 billion worth of assets under management (AUM) participated in the March fund manager survey (FMS), said BofA.
Fair trade watchdog CCI has approved Microsoft's proposed $7.2 billion acquisition of Nokia's mobile devices business, citing that the deal would not have adverse impact on competition in the Indian market.
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The beta version has seen over 1.3 mn downloads; over 2,000 firms in India are moving to the latest version.
At the recently concluded annual I/O conference, which is an annual developer-focused event held in San Francisco, California, Google announced several new devices and services.
Microsoft has worked hard to exploit the advantage its mail software provides
Google I/O conference will begin on June 27 and some major announcements are expected.
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Search engine Google continues to dominate the market share for the ninth consecutive month, according to a report released by Internet metrics company comScore Networks.
Google is investing heavily in creating business tools and products, driven by open source technology and machine learning
Google will be able to co-relate data from the first click to the final delivery of product. This kind of knowledge is invaluable, something which even Amazon does not have.
Internet search major Google is likely to pick up a 5 per cent stake in media giant Time Warner's AOL for about $1 billion, the Wall Street Journal has reported.
Microsoft Corp announced its 'Windows 10' operating system on Tuesday to replace the largely unpopular Windows 8, skipping a number to mark a leap toward unifying the way people work on tablets, phones and traditional computers.
Internet search engine giant Google has emerged as the world's number one brand and is also the first one to touch the $100 billion value mark, despite the tough economic environment.According to the fourth annual BrandZ top 100 most valuable global brands ranking, Google is the number one brand with a value of $100 billion and is way ahead of Microsoft which is at the second rank with a value of $76.2 billion.
Yahoo Inc struck a deal with Firefox maker Mozilla Corp to replace Google Inc as the default search engine on the Firefox Web browser in the United States, a move that Yahoo Chief Executive Marissa Mayer said will help boost its flagging search market share.
With IT giant Microsoft bidding $44.6 billion to acquire internet major Yahoo! to take on growing competition from Google in the fast-growing online advertisement market, the domestic players in this arena today said they are ready for the new challenge.
The search giant is building a system that stores information so that machines as well as people can read it
This would be the first visit to India as Google CEO.
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The US-based firm, however said it does not have any direct evidence of customer data being breached illegally by the government.
"Chromebooks", a Chrome operating system-based notebook PC that will be available online from June 15.
Google on Thursday will launch a new advertising technology that will allow publishers to incorporate text ads into online videos in a move long awaited by the industry.
Gartner expects manufacturers like Samsung to launch a whole range of budget devices that will drive Android into mass market segments.
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Bing clocks 18 million visits every month, while Google India has unique monthly visits of 753 million.. Analysts say while Bing is in its infancy, it can grow up rapidly once it powers Yahoo! searches across the world.
Bing's monthly market share in the US declined to 8.51 per cent in September from 9.64 per cent in August, according to web analytics firm StatCounter.
Microsoft, responding to the rights group's allegations, said a system fault had removed some search results for users outside China.
EU says Google unfairly pushes own apps with Android
It will compete with rivals Amazon Web Services and Microsoft Azure
Lumia 640 XL will begin rolling out globally in March.
Microsoft's new search engine, bing.com, automatically censors certain sex-related terms when the user's 'country location' is set as India.
The group has called for a retaliatory tariff action against India, if New Delhi does not roll back the 'unilateral and discriminatory' equalisation levy or Google Tax.
In July, Google announced plans to launch its own operating system for personal computers. The planned open source 'Google Chrome Operating System' is expected to be available in the second half of 2010.
Nokia agreed in September to sell its devices and services business and license its patents to Microsoft for 5.44 billion euros after failing to recover from a late start in smartphones.
Search engine Google will invest $1 billion for a 5 per cent stake in Time Warner's AOL Internet unit, strengthening the alliance between the two Internet powerbrokers and creating new hurdles for competitors such as Microsoft.
Windows 10, which comes almost three years after the launch of the company's last operating system, will be available in 190 countries.
'Today's engineering graduates have to learn the skills to solve problems which is actually a higher order skill.'
The company ended a longer-than-expected search for a new leader after Steve Ballmer announced his intention to retire in August.
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