Apple Inc overtook Hewlett-Packard Co as the world’s largest vendor of personal computers in the fourth quarter, helped by booming demand for its iPads, research firm Canalys said on Monday. In the fourth quarter, tablet demand helped drive the global PC market 16 per cent higher than a year ago to 120 million computers, Canalys [...]

A significant part of your life revolves around Google. You use Gmail for work as well as personal emails. You use Google+ for virtual bonding and sharing content. You use Picassa to store photos, andYouTube for your fix of video clips. You know Google is tagging advertisements as well tailoring search depending on your web history. But, starting [...]

Michael Dell, founder of Dell Computer. Dell is on the prowl for an India acquisition worth up to $1 billion (Rs 5,000 crore), part of a strategy to bolster its information technology services business and compete better against the likes of IBM and Accenture. The world’s third-largest computer maker wants to buy a mid-sized Indian tech firm with “several thousands of [...]

A growing number of Indians have taken the plunge in a cross cultural wedding A cross racial marriage would earlier have people reacting with, “Wonder how long this survives!” But today, men and women prefer dating a foreigner to an Indian. Thanks to the rigid traditions in an Indian marriage, unrealistic expectations from the spouses [...]

The signs are everywhere. Students, women, yuppies, the unemployed, those facing a mid-life crisis, and a whole lot of other categories have succumbed to the e-bug. Frankly, the environment has never been more conducive. Of course, the risks associated with start-ups remain (see Hurdles you will face), with more than 50% of all start-ups failing [...]

Starbucks Corp will open its first coffee shops in India in August or September, a year later than originally planned, and aims to have 50 outlets by year-end through a tie-up with the Tata group, the country’s biggest business house. The Seattle-based chain, known as much for the trendy urban lifestyle it represents as its [...]

In the final quarter of 2011, when many world leaders were groping for a solution to the crisis in the euro zone to prevent another global recession, the cash counters at Apple Incwere ringing furiously. Every second during that period, the iconic company founded by the late Steve Jobs was adding $1,670 (Rs 82,795) to its profits. With [...]

On the 11th day of the 11th month of 2011 at 11.11 am, Siddharth Yog gifted $11 million as ‘guru dakshina’ to his professor Arthur I Segel at the Harvard Business School, his alma mater. He added a dollar to that amount as ‘shagun’, or a token for good luck. The 38-year-old founder of Xander [...]

Apple is working on a universal touchscreen remote. A patent application published by the US Patent and Trademark Office showed that Apple is working on a universal touchscreen remote capable of controlling multiple devices, shedding lights on the company’s much-anticipated plan on a smart TV product. The patent, titled “Apparatus and Method to Facilitate Universal [...]

Apple store in Beijing Investors in Apple Inc have a one-word answer for those who wonder whether this corporate juggernaut can maintain its phenomenal momentum in the years ahead: Asia. The iconic maker of the iPhone, iPad and iPod has barely scratched the surface of the region, home to around 60 per cent of the [...]