Hyundai is offering drivers up to £5,000 under their new petrol and diesel scrappage scheme Hyundai has launched a new scrappage scheme in a bid to encourage UK drivers to remove old polluting cars off the road. Much like Ford’s scrappage scheme the South Korean car manufacturer is allowing drivers to trade in both petrol and diesel models. UK motorists can bag ... Read More »
As per the draft guidelines, as of 2015-16, at least 187,006 primary schools (Class I-V) and 62,988 upper primary (Class VI-VIII) schools were running with fewer than 30 students. Photo: HT New Delhi: The centre is looking to execute location-specific mergers of nearly 260,000 small government schools as part of a rationalization process to ensure maximum use of resources. In draft ... Read More »
12:10 pm Buzzing: Adani Power shares fell as much as 4 percent intraday after foreign brokerage house Citi discontinued its coverage on the stock. “We are discontinuing coverage on Adani Power due to reallocation of our resources. The firm’s last recommendation for the stock is sell and our target price is Rs 23. This is our last rating on Adani Power,” the ... Read More »
After a US-based digital security company alerted Twitter about a massive botnet campaign promising online sex to its users, the micro-blogging website has removed nearly 90,000 such fake accounts. Dubbed as ‘SIREN’, the fake botnet campaign was discovered by ZeroFOX, a Baltimore-based security firm specialising in social-media threat detection. “To our knowledge, the botnet is one of the largest malicious campaigns ever ... Read More »
Tech Mahindras profit fell 33 per cent annually to Rs. 590 crore in Q4. HIGHLIGHTS Tech Mahindra shares fell as much as 17% today It reported 33% decline in March quarter profit on Friday Tech Mahindra is the fifth-biggest software services provider in India Shares of India’s fifth-biggest software services provider Tech Mahindra tanked as much as 17 per cent ... Read More »
ANKARA Turkish authorities are investigating some 10,000 people on suspicion of using social media to support terrorism, the interior ministry said on Saturday, part of a wide crackdown that has alarmed rights groups and some Western allies.Turkey, which faces security threats from Kurdish and leftist militants and Islamic State, has sacked or suspended more than 100,000 people following an attempted ... Read More »
Vivo V5 vs Oppo F1s vs Gionee S6s: The Sub-Rs. 18,000 Selfie Smartphone Battle HIGHLIGHTS Vivo V5, Oppo F1s, Gionee S6s are among the top mid-range selfie phones All three have similar features, with only a few differences The three smartphones all cost under Rs. 18,000 Vivo on Tuesday showcased the V5 smartphone with a 20-megapixel camera in the front ... Read More »
Ericsson to Lay Off 3,000 in ‘Large Transformation’ Telecoms equipment maker Ericsson on Tuesday confirmed recent media reports that it will cut 3,000 jobs in Sweden, including in production, research and development. The company said however that it also planned to hire 1,000 people in research and development over the next three years, as the company undergoes a “large transformation”. ... Read More »
Cisco,Systems,to,Reportedly,Lay,Off,About,14,000,Employees HIGHLIGHTS Cisco to shift focus to become a software-centric organisation The job cuts are beacuse of this action taken by Cisco HP and Microsoft also announced job cuts earlier this year Cisco Systems Inc is laying off about 14,000 employees, representing nearly 20 percent of the network equipment maker’s global workforce, technology news site CRN reported, citing sources close ... Read More »
HIGHLIGHTS 360,000 the total number of accounts sidelined since the middle of 2015 Tech titans have been enlisting software to battle extremist propaganda Getting quicker at identifying extremist content and shutting down accounts involved Twitter announced Thursday that it had cut off 235,000 accounts during the past six months in a heightened crackdown on use of the global messaging service ... Read More »
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