Russian spy Anna tries to make her living by selling her story.

Russian spy Anna Chapman, who was sent back home after being arrested in the US, is in a secret $ 250,000-deal to reveal her espionage adventure and wants the money to be paid into the Swiss bank account of one of her associates.

The spy is hoping to net a fortune from the story of how she infiltrated American society and has asked a London-based friend to discreetly reach out to the media for a deal.

Chapman hopes to get around rules in the US and Russia banning her from profiting from her story by channeling the money from any deal to a friend, the New York Post reported quoting sources.

Russian spy Anna tries to make her living by selling her story.

Blackberry launches it new Messenger, targets Youth.

The Waterloo-based Canadian wireless giant has just launched TV, Internet and poster ads to woo young people in North America by playing up its BlackBerry Messenger (BBM) which is extremely popular among its professional and corporate clients.

More than 25 million of the total 46 million BlackBerry subscribers worldwide use BlackBerry Messenger. According to RIM co-CEO Jim Balsillie, BlackBerry Messenger is so popular that its use has shot up nearly 500 percent during the fiscal.

In fact, at the RIM's annual shareholder meeting last week, BlackBerry Messenger was the toast of the evening, with television commercials highlighting the software for its better network efficiency against competition.

Blackberry launches it new Messenger, targets Youth.

iPhone 4 in India by October by Airtel

India's leading mobile operator, Bharti Airtel, is looking to launch Apple's iPhone 4 in September or October, Chief Executive Officer for India and South Asia Sanjay Kapoor said on Monday.

India's curbs on import of telecoms equipment are easing, Kapoor added. Carriers in the world's fastest-growing mobile market must obtain government clearance before they place any equipment purchase order, and earlier this year India had barred some operators from placing orders with China's Huawei Technologies and ZTE Corp on security concerns.

Last week, the telecoms minister said the government expected to resolve the issue in a couple of weeks.

iPhone 4 in India by October by Airtel

Old Spice ad campaign goes viral[Video]

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In one of the largest viral video ad campaign ever launched, Old Spice is swarming YouTube.

The Procter & Gamble Co. brand released more than 180 videos featuring the campaign's star, ex-football player Isaiah Mustafa. In the videos, he responds personally to online queries or comments from various Web users and some famous ones, including Ellen DeGeneres and Alyssa Milano.

The videos, all of which feature Mustafa in a towel speaking directly to the camera, have been steadily released over the last few days. On Friday, they accounted for eight of the most popular 11 videos on YouTube and more than 21 million views in total.

Old Spice ad campaign goes viral[Video]

UN assigns Mukesh Ambani to key group on development goals

Reliance Industries chief, Mr Mukesh Ambani, has been named by the United Nations to a key advocacy group on Millennium Development Goals, whose mandate includes finding ways to fight socio-economic evils such as poverty.

Mr Ambani is the only Indian to be a part of the MDG Advocacy Group that comprises eminent international personalities including Microsoft Chairman, Mr Bill Gates, philanthropist, Mr Ted Turner and Nobel laureate, Mr Muhammad Yunus, among others.

Ambani is expected to focus on a global partnership for development, that will include development of an open, rule-based, predictable, non-discriminatory trading and financial system.

UN assigns Mukesh Ambani to key group on development goals

Twitter exploring new ways to earn money with special deals

Twitter is exploring new business models.

The newest idea is special deals for Twitter users. The deals would be financed by companies that use the Twitter account @earlybird for advertising, reported Twitter on its website.

Deals will initially be almost exclusive to American markets. But, over time, it's possible that the deals could be expanded to other regions or focus on broader categories, like music or fashion.

Twitter, which lets users send messages up to 140 characters long, has grown rapidly to more than 12 million users. But the Californian start-up has had a hard time earning money. Plans for an advertising campaign met with sharp resistance from Twitter users.

Twitter exploring new ways to earn money with special deals

World Cup final ball auctioned off for $74,000 brought by Spanish Fan

First Time WC winner have another chance to rejoice as one of the Spanish fans have bought a ball used in Spain's World Cup final win over Holland for £48,200 ($74,000) in an online charity auction.

Proceeds from the sale on eBay are due to go to 46664, Nelson Mandela's campaign to prevent HIV/Aids.

The company said 133 bids had been placed from 55 international bidders.

World Cup final ball auctioned off for $74,000 brought by Spanish Fan

Yes to Cola, no to Bollywood: Saina Nehwal

By Uma Sudhir for NDTV

World No 2 in Badminton, Saina Nehwal, is shuttling her way towards becoming one of the top spots brands in India. Brand strategists say that she can now charge up to 30 lakh per endorsement - 500% more than what she used to get before her ranking shot up.

Unlike her coach, Pullela Gopichand, who refused to endorse aerated drinks at the peak of his career, Saina says she's wide open to offers, especially since she's somewhat of a Cola girl herself.

"Today's generation wants to drink everything. I am also one of them. Gopi sir took a very brave decision because he believes if we do anything, the public follows. I don't see it that way that if I drink, others will also start drinking it,'' she said.

Yes to Cola, no to Bollywood: Saina Nehwal

Google Spent Whopping $100 Million Defending YouTube Against Viacom

Google CFO Patrick Pichette made an startling revelation during a conference call discussing Google’s second quarter earnings today: It “invested” $100 million defending YouTube against Viacom’s $1 billion lawsuit.

In 2007, Viacom sued Google for $1 billion in damages over 160,000 unauthorized clips uploaded to YouTube , acquired by the search company in 2006. Since then, Google and Viacom have sparred in and out of court. Google (Google) maintained that it is and was protected by the DMCA (Digital Millenium Copyright Act).

Now it is said that google had ended with $30 Billion in the Bank.

Google Spent Whopping $100 Million Defending YouTube Against Viacom

Virgin Going Green with e-Magazine ?

Virgin and publishing company Seven Squared are planning to launch a new consumer magazine that will be available exclusively as an app for iPad, iPhone and eventually Android devices, according to AdAge.

The magazine, titled Maverick, will reportedly focus on the entrepreneurial space, highlighting “new creative, business, travel and technology ideas” to an “upscale international audience,” a la Fast Company and WIRED. Consultancy AI will oversee the magazine’s creative duties.

Maverick is tentatively scheduled to launch in October — if Holly Branson, the 28-year old daughter of Virgin’s Founder and Chairman Sir Richard Branson, can persuade enough premium advertisers to sign up by then. According to an executive “close to the matter,” response has been so positive that the title may very well be able to choose which brands it will sign for the first round of advertising contracts.

Virgin Going Green with e-Magazine ?

Check it out! Here is the Symbol for the Indian Currency designed by IITian.

At last after much delay the India Government had approved a design, design by IITian which will represent Indian Currency in the world distinguishably as many of the currencies in the sub continent as called as rupees. Its a blend of the Devanagri 'Ra' and Roman 'R' .

The Union Cabinet on Thursday approved the design, which includes both the Devnagiri 'Ra' and the Roman capital 'R' and has two parallel lines running at the top. The parallel lines symbolise the equal to sign.

"With this India will join an elite group of countries which have a distinct currency symbol. It denotes the robustness of Indian economy. I will now hold up the design that was finally selected. This was sent in by Udaya Kumar," said Minister for Information and Broadcasting Ambika Soni in New Delhi.

Check it out! Here is the Symbol for the Indian Currency designed by IITian.

British milkman masters Gujarati, Bengali for work.

London: It's business as unusual for a British milkman - the 69-year-old has become fluent in at least two Indian languages: Gujarati and Bengali, as many of his customers can't speak English.

John "Jimmy" Mather first delivered milk in 1960 and soon made friends with the few immigrants on his round from India and Bangladesh. And, as more Asian families settled in with very little or no English, this British milkman started learning their language and mastered spoken Gujarati and Bengali, the Daily Express reported.

"When I began in 1960 there used to be a handful of Asian families in the region. I can still remember the first few people I served. They were good, decent folk but obviously their English wasn't good. So I picked it up myself and it made things a whole lot easier," he was quoted as saying.

British milkman masters Gujarati, Bengali for work.

Paul D Ceglia claims 84% stakes in facebook .

New York: A judge in New York has issued a temporary restraining order on the transfer of Facebook Inc.'s assets, after a suit by a New York man who claims to own an 84 per cent stake in the social-networking company, a media report said on Tuesday.

Paul D Ceglia filed a suit in the Supreme Court of New York's Allegany County ON June 30, claiming that a 2003 contract he signed with Facebook founder and Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg entitles him to ownership of the company and monetary damages, Wall Street Journal reported on its website.

Judge Thomas Brown, who issued the temporary restraining order earlier this month, is hearing the suit. Facebook has requested that the case be moved to federal court.

Paul D Ceglia claims 84% stakes in facebook .

Mr. Dhoni sign deal worth 200 Crores, leaves sachin behind.

Indian cricket captain Mahendra Singh Dhoni has signed a whopping Rs 200 crore endorsement deal with a talent management company, surpassing Sachin Tendulkar in the corporate contract sweepstakes.

Dhoni has entered into a three-year deal with Rhiti Sports Management and Mindscapes, which will manage the Indian skipper's long list of endorsements and brand associations, corporate profile, patents and digital rights, images, visibility on social networking sites and merchandise through a joint venture.

Tendulkar's three-year deal with sports management firm Iconix, signed in 2006, was worth Rs 180 crore.

Confirming the development, Rhiti Sports General Manager (Operations) Sanjay Pandey said as per the agreement, the company will be looking after Dhoni's entire spectrum of endorsements.

Mr. Dhoni sign deal worth 200 Crores, leaves sachin behind.

Ad system that can detect online shoppers

A new tool examines the cursor behaviour of search-engine users to decide if they are shopping or merely surfing.

Eugene Agichtein and Qi Guo at Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia, has said that websites like Google commonly display sponsored results above the actual ones, which can be annoying for someone who's not shopping.

They created a web browser add-on that tracks the cursor, and found that the data could help to distinguish between a "browsing" and "shopping" search session over 96 per cent of the time.

"As the session progresses, our system would be able to make increasingly accurate predictions of intent," New Scientist quoted Agichtein as saying.

Ad system that can detect online shoppers

Only 8 Indian Cos among 500 World's Biggest Companies.

Only Eight Indian companies feature in the list of the world's 500 largest companies compiled by American business magazine Fortune.

The compiled list by the magazine is topped by US retailer Wal-Mart Stores(1st), followed by oil giant Royal Dutch Shell(2nd) and another oil major, Exxon Mobil(3rd),British Petroleum (BP)(4th)  followed by Toyota Motor (5th), Japan Post Holdings (6th), Sinopec (7th), State Grid (8th), AXA (9th) and China National Petroleum (10th.)

Besides IOC and RIL, the other Indian companies in the list are steel-maker Tata Steel, auto company Tata Motors, oil entities Bharat Petroleum(BP), Hindustan Petroleum(HP) and Oil & Natural Gas (ONGC) and public sector bank SBI (State Bank of India).

Only 8 Indian Cos among 500 World's Biggest Companies.

Facebook tie up with Malaysia's MOL for payment credits

With growing in members, Facebook is partnering with a Malaysian company to sell credits at retail outlets across Asia for the first time, aiming to make it easier for millions of people to purchase virtual goods and play games on the social networking site while boosting revenue for developers.

Electronic payments company MOL, part of the business empire of tycoon Vincent Tan will offer the online currency from Aug. 1 at more than 500,000 outlets including 7-Eleven stores, Internet cafes and online banks in five Southeast Asian countries, India, Australia and New Zealand, company spokesman Nor Badron said Friday.

The move is targeting people who don't have a credit card, particularly younger Facebook users, and those who don't want to take the risk of making electronic payments online.

Facebook tie up with Malaysia's MOL for payment credits

Harley-Davidson, India's First Outlet in Hyderabad.

Legendary Harley-Davidson, the USA-based heavyweight bike maker opened its first dealership outlet in the country in Hyderabad on Friday.

Though the company has identified dealers in Delhi, Mumbai, Chandigarh and Bangalore, the outlet in Hyderabad - Banjara Harley-Davidson - became the first to start operations.

"We will launch our bikes in other cities before the end of this year," said Anoop Prakash, Managing Director, Harley-Davidson India after the outlet was formally inaugurated by Telugu Film star N T Ramarao.

Harley-Davidson, India's First Outlet in Hyderabad.

Sueing season is back, NTP sues Apple, Google, HTC, Microsoft, Motorola, LG

(Reuters) NTP Inc said it filed patent infringement lawsuits against several of the world's top mobile phone companies including Apple Inc, Google Inc, Microsoft and Motorola Inc.

The privately held company, which is also suing HTC Corp and LG Electronics Inc, waged a long legal battle with BlackBerry maker Research In Motion that led to an eventual settlement.

NTP filed lawsuits on Thursday in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia accusing the companies of infringing eight patents related to the delivery of email "over wireless communications systems."

Sueing season is back, NTP sues Apple, Google, HTC, Microsoft, Motorola, LG

Indian IT Business is likely to be numbed by Europe Financial Crisis.

With the Crisis in European Business Circuit which is likely to hit the Business of Indian IT Firms, thanks no such problem is faced from the US which contributes more than half of its business

Tata Consultancy Services, Infosys Technologies and Wipro Ltd face uncertainty on orders from Europe - the second-biggest market for the sector after the United States.

"There has been no major impact on volume growth due to the crisis," said Harit Shah, an analyst with brokerage Karvy Stock Broking. "It could have an impact going forward, especially due to the euro. We will have to watch for what the management has to say."

Indian software services firms are ramping up investments to grow their market share in Europe, which accounts for about a third of their revenue.

Indian IT Business is likely to be numbed by Europe Financial Crisis.