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Microsoft announced major updates to its software and product line at the Microsoft Windows 10 Event Wednesday, unveiling its entry into the desktop computer hardware market with a powerful, professional-level product called Surface Studio. Trademark filings linked to Microsoft show a lengthy list of additions to the Surface name, so more Surface-branded products like appear [...]

The average rate on the popular 30-year fixed mortgage has been so low for so long that a good chunk of borrowers can’t even contemplate the idea of it ever going higher. Why should they? Every time we warn of rising rates, or see a tiny bump up, some global economic tantrum pushes them back [...]

Second public issue from the L&T group will be open for subscription on September 12 and will close on September 15. Priced at Rs 850-860 per share, L&T Technology Services aims to raise Rs 894.4 crore. L&T Technology Services is subsidiary of engineering & construction major L&T. The company on Friday already raised over Rs 268 [...]

India aims to reduce its hydrocarbon imports by 10 percent by 2022 through increasing domestic output, fuel efficiency and the use of alternative energy, its oil minister said on Friday. India currently imports 70-75 percent of its energy requirements, Minister of State for Petroleum and Natural Gas Dharmendra Pradhan told reporters. The minister spoke on [...]

Ahead of the new iPhone announcement, Apple is going to push an update to nearly all iPhones this week. It’s called iOS 10, and is the tenth major revision to the iPhone and iPad operating system. iOS 10 will be available as a free update for existing iPhones (iPhone 5 and newer) and iPads (iPad [...]

tvOS is the operating system software platform that runs on the fourth-gen Apple TV. It’s the Apple TV’s equivalent of iOS on the iPhone or macOS on the Mac; it manages the apps you can install on the device and offers various features of its own. Just as iOS and macOS receive regular free updates, patching [...]

Penny Kim, a marketing professional with a short one-month career at a Silicon Valley startup, shared a detailed account of one of the ugliest startup stories we’ve ever heard. Her tale started with a job offer in July of $135,000 a year plus equity, a $10,000 signing bonus for relocation expenses (she was moving from [...]

A year and a half after the launch of the Swachh Bharat Mission, five towns from Maharashtra and Telangana have been declared Open Defecation Free (ODF) by an independent survey conducted by the Quality Council of India. The Urban development ministry targets to make 974 towns free from open defecation by next year. Kagal, Panchgani, [...]

Reuben Yonatan has a problem with the kind of business jargon we’ve all gotten used to hearing (and maybe even saying). “Most buzzwords are overused, clichéd, and unclear,” says Yonatan, CEO of tech communications advisory firm GetVoIP. Far from making people sound professional, these hackneyed expressions have “become go-to substitutes when an employee, or a [...]

BOUGHT for just over $700,000 more than two decades ago, this Sydney Harbour-view mansion is now set to sell for more than $10 million. Paul Disalvo and his wife Lucy bought their Vaucluse home in 1992 for about $725,000, a figure that in the ’90s was considered a hefty sum. “It was a time where [...]

Elon Musk is doing his damndest to save the human race. Sergey Brin envisions making Google the “third half of your brain.” And Arianna Huffington is on a mission to get people to take care of themselves while taking care of business. Visionary business leaders such as these inspire us to be better and do [...]

Vikas Krishan Yadav has quietly been India’s most impressive male athlete in Rio so far. Only Uzbekistan’s Bektemir Melikuziev now stands between him and a guaranteed medal. In wrestling, Ravinder Khatri will be the first Indian grappler to take the stage in Rio in men’s Greco Roman 85kg. In athletics, Lalita Babar is making a happy [...]