Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Reliance Industries chairman Mukesh Ambani and Google’s India-born CEO Sundar Pichai are among over 50 global leaders, business chiefs and pop icons named as contenders by Time magazine for its annual ‘Person of the Year’ honour. The Time Person of the Year 2015 will be announced next month and the publication said the title will be […]
» Read moreOn Semiconductor Corp said it would buy Fairchild Semiconductor International in a $2.4 billion deal, the latest in a rapidly consolidating semiconductor industry. The offer of $20 per share represents a premium of nearly 12% to Fairchild’s Tuesday close. Shares of Fairchild were trading at $19 before the opening bell on Wednesday. The deal will help the company bolster its […]
» Read moreUnidentified gunmen shot and wounded an Italian priest on Wednesday in northern Bangladesh, the latest in a spate of attacks on foreigners that have been blamed on hardline Islamists, police said. The priest, identified only as “Piero”, was riding his bicycle in the northern city of Dinajpur when gunmen on a motorbike shot him several times at close range before […]
» Read moreRetired English soccer star David Beckham, an international celebrity both on and off the field, was named People magazine’s “Sexiest Man Alive,” on Tuesday. “It’s a huge honor,” Beckham, 40, told People of being handed the title on its 30th anniversary. “I’m very pleased to accept.” The soccer legend and husband of pop star and fashion designer Victoria Beckham has […]
» Read moreUS internet colossus Alphabet has revamped Google+ online social network focused on people’s interests, and tuned for smartphones or tablets. “We’re starting to introduce a fully redesigned Google+ that puts Communities and Collections front and center,” director of streams Eddie Kessler said in a blog post yesterday. “Now focused around interests, the new Google+ is much simpler.” Google’s social network was […]
» Read moreCharlie Sheen revealed he is HIV positive in an exclusive TODAY interview with Matt Lauer. Here is an ‘open letter’ from Charlie Sheen on his diagnosis. An open letter from Charlie Sheen: Roughly four years ago, I suddenly found myself in the throws of a seismic and debilitating three-day cluster-migraine-like headache. I was emergently hospitalized with what I believed to […]
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