Archive for: August, 2012

IBM expands its enterprise solution portfolio, draws close to Kenexa acquisition

IBM (International Business Machine) follows the suit of its biggest competitors in enterprise solutions and acquires Kenexa, recruitment software makers. The company announced on Monday that purchase will finalize in December this year for $1.3 Billion in cash. IBM’s biggest rivals in the aforesaid business are Oracle and SAP, both of whom have acquired talent […]

Infoblox sees a booming market in network automation

Infoblox, data network automation equipment makers, have taken Microsoft directly in words. In terms of market share, Infoblox might be playing David vs. Goliath but its products are quite impressive to cater to the contemporary requirements. The company made its initial public offering this April due mainly to the reason that its market share is […]

Amazon Prime membership increases in profitability, says the company

Amazon.com’s biggest weapon is not the huge stock available online, nor is its Kindle device. It is the company’s Amazon Prime membership that spruce up its ecosystem. The company said Monday in a statement that its Prime Free Two-Day shipping is churning more profits than older Free Super Saver Shipping program. Though the company did […]

Facebook growth is slow not halted, say experts

Facebook’s growth has slowed in the rankings of top social networking websites that are mostly US-based. But FB still is the top dog in the rankings with almost 10 percent share of monthly and weekly visits. Smaller social media networks like Pinterest and Instagram showed the most growth in visits. The latter witnessed a 17,319% […]

India PC market booming with increase in desktops and laptop demand, says Gartner

India’s personal computer market is moving in almost the opposite direction from the US’ with an increase of almost 17 percent in the second fiscal quarter 2012 from a year-ago quarter. The leaders were Lenovo on the top, followed closely by Acer and Hewlett-Packard. However, the year-ago market leader Dell saw a decrease in the […]

Supreme Court summons Malik Riaz on September 17

Rejecting his plea for seeking exemption from appearance, the Supreme Court on Wednesday summoned Malik Riaz’s on September 17 in the contempt of court case. A two-member bench of the apex headed by Justice Ejaz Afzal Khan resumed the hearing from which the property tycoon Malik Riaz remained absent on account of medical treatment. Counsel […]

World of Warcraft’s patch 5.0.4 is now available

As ever there is little time to see the light of new content expansion, World of Warcraft is updated with a large patch that incorporates most of the elements that players can develop along the new venture. This time, it is the 5.0.4 patch, prelude to the expansion Mists of Pandaria that will go on sale on 25 September. One […]

Indian tour was the right call, claims Wellington Phoenix coach

Assistant coach Chris Greenacre claims that the club’s decision to tour India ahead of their season will be prove to be a good decision in the future. The A-League giants decided to play some friendly games against I-League opposition for their pre-season and although the facilities have hardly been first-rate, the manager claims that the […]

PML-N creating hurdles in creation of new provinces: Qamar Zaman Kaira

Lashing out at the Pakistan Muslim League–Nawaz (PML-N), Federal Minister for Information and Broadcasting Qamar Zaman Kaira has said that it was creating hurdles in the creation of new federating units in the country. He claimed that the PML-N, which is the second largest party in the parliament, was not looked serious in creation of […]

Kevin Skaff reveals A Day to Remember’s new album title

A Day to Remember, an American rock band, has thus far released four studio albums, with the last one hitting the stores in 2010. Kevin Skaff, lead guitarist and backing vocals, has now revealed that the band’s upcoming studio record’s title, while admitting that they are working in the studio on their fifth album. The […]

Indian Supreme Court upholds death sentence of Ajmal Kasab

Supreme Court of India on Wednesday dismissed the appeal filed by Ajmal Kasab against the Mumbai High Court’s verdict of a death sentence handed down to him for the 2008 Mumbai attacks. Kasab, the only survivor from the 2008 Mumbai attacks in which 166 people were killed, field his appeal in the apex court claiming that […]

President Zardari says PPP can run democracy

Terming democracy best revenge, President Asif Ali Zardari has said that those who had attempted to play God were now in a state of panic and looking for refuge. The president while addressing a gathering organized under the banner of Benazir Income Support Programme (BISP) said tolerance and patience were necessary for the smooth functioning […]

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