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May 16th, 2012 | 
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CarZ, one of India’s leading independent Multi Brand Car service network raised Series-A funding of $ 5 million from Indo-US ventures ….
REUTERS – Corporate IT departments in the United States are becoming less wary of staff bringing their personal devices to work, a Cisco study showed, although security remains a top concern. Among 600 IT and business executives questioned by Cisco’s consulting arm, 95 percent said they support employees bringing and using personal devices in the workplace in some way, Cisco’s Internet Solutions Business group (ISBG) said on Wednesday. Corporate IT departments have been slow to embrace the trend dubbed ‘Bring your own device’ (BYOD) because of potential security risks. …
SEOUL (Reuters) – Shares in Samsung Electronics Co slumped more than 6 percent on Wednesday, wiping $ 10 billion off the electronics giant’s market value, on a report that Apple placed huge chip orders with troubled Japanese chip rival Elpida. Taiwan’s DigiTimes, an online trade news site, reported that Apple recently placed large mobile dynamic random access memory (DRAM) orders with Elpida’s 12-inch plant in Hiroshima, Japan, securing around half the facilities total chip production. It cited unnamed industry sources in its report, which hit shares of major chip suppliers to Apple. …
MUMBAI (Reuters) – Drugmaker Piramal Healthcare is buying a U.S.-based healthcare data provider for $ 635 million to boost research and development, in the biggest outbound acquisition by an Indian company in over six months. Mumbai-based Piramal Healthcare, controlled by billionaire Ajay Piramal, has been looking to expand its R&D portfolio after it sold its India formulations business to U.S.-based Abbott Laboratories for $ 3.7 billion in 2010. …
Additional reporting by G.C. Shekhar in Chennai
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TORONTO (Reuters) – Canadians may soon be able to pay for purchases with a quick tap of their smartphones after a major bank and the country’s largest wireless carrier struck a deal to embed credit card information on handsets equipped with a chip to transmit data. Rogers Communications Inc and Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce later this year will launch the so-called mobile wallet o n some BlackBerry models from Research In Motion Ltd . D evices fro m other handset makers are expected to follow. …
London, May 15 (IANS) Sedentary routine of young officegoers may be doubling their risk of suffering from a dangerous blood clot, according to a new survey.
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New Delhi, May 13 (IANS) A 23-year-old man has been arrested for murdering his mother’s paramour, police said Sunday.
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HELSINKI (Reuters) – Desperate for cash to tide it over until sales ramp up of new products, Nokia Oyj is stepping up its quest for royalties from rivals using its designs as the basis of their technology. Nokia already earns 500 million euros a year from its patent royalties in key areas of mobile telephony and some analysts say a more determined application of its patent rights could boost its income by hundreds more millions of euros a year. Alternatively, a sale could generate billions of euros. …
London, May 13 (ANI): Dr Hasnat Khan, Princess Diana’s former lover, has demanded an investigation after Scotland Yard told him that his mobile number was found by hacking detectives.
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