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Chinese phone maker OnePlus will hold OnePlus India event today, October 12, in Bangalore with expectations that OnePlus X is likely to be launched at the event by its CEO Pete Lau, himself. After its successful launch of OnePlus One and OnePlus 2 smartphones, the presence of Pete Lau, the founder and CEO of the company at the company has ...

News Corp and Twenty-First century Fox CEO Rupert Murdoch, 84, has decided to gracefully step down in favour of his son James Murdoch, according to CNBC based on sources close to the family. However, James has already been groomed for the succession over a decade and it is not new keeping in view senior Murdoch’s age and decades-long struggle to ...

First it was Al Jajeera and then host of others who are coming under scanner for showing the wrong map of India that is in vogue in many countries showing Pakistan-Occupied Kashmir as part of Pakistan and Aksai-chin as part of China. Aware of the new implications which prompted Indian government ban Al Jajeera TV for 7 days in India, ...

As Warren Buffett revealed that someone from the Berkshire Hathaway itself would succeed him as the company’s CEO, media speculated on two likely successors – India-born Ajit Jain and Greg Abel. “Both the board and I believe we now have the right person to succeed me as CEO, a successor ready to assume the job the day after I die ...

OPPO has launched its budget phone Mirror 3 in the Indian market, priced Rs 16,990. The OPPO Mirror 3 has a 4.7″ touchscreen and 1280x720p display with a curved back panel. Powered by a 64-bit Snapdragon 410, it comes with a 1.2GHz quad-core CPU and 1GB of RAM. The Mirror 3 has 8GB internal storage, expandable upto 128GB with a ...

International Cricket Council (ICC) CEO David Richardson hopes the 11th World Cup will instil fresh energy into the One-Day International (ODI) format, whose popularity has been shrinking following the arrival of shorter Twenty20 version. Crowd figures in 50-over games have fallen in the recent past and there is a fear the concept will become irrelevant following the rise of T20 ...

Shahrukh Khan’s Red Chillies Entertainment Pvt Ltd said the box-office collection of ‘Happy New Year’ after its first week stood at Rs 157.57 crore in domestic market and it was a record in the company’s history too. Venky Mysore, Red Chillies CEO said, “As a production house, it is very gratifying for us that Happy New Year has beaten the ...

ContactBox, a new app that allows users to share their contact lists and manage them together the way DropBox works, is here and its CEO Gal Nahum is upbeat about its success. ContactBox, the contact sharing app, was created to meet the need of contact organization and collaboration. Smartphone users have a range of applications helping them share photos (Instagram), ...

Finnish technology giant Nokia Tuesday named Indian-origin Rajeev Suri as its chief executive officer (CEO). Nokia chairman Risto Siilasmaa said he believed that Suri, the new president and CEO, was “the right person to lead the company forward”. “Suri has a proven ability to create strategic clarity, drive innovation and growth, ensure disciplined execution, and deliver results,” Xinhua quoted Siilasmaa ...

The 37-year-old Marissa Mayer, who was sidelined by Google’s co-founder Larry Page has marched out to rejuvenate a frail and falling tech major in the vicinity — Yahoo. But the third CEO in less than a year is beset with challenges bequethed from her five failed predecessors in the last five years. Not merely Google but also Facebook and Microsoft ...