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Google ’s been on an acquisition spree recently. In the last few months alone, it’s acquired ReCaptcha (for scanning books), AdMob (for mobile advertising), On2 Technologies (for video compression) and Teracent (for targeted display ads).

The service, which is a relaunch of GrandCentral that Google bought in 2007, allows you to choose a local number which will simultaneously ring up to six phones such as your cell phone, home phone, office phone and the phone at that vacation home that most of us can only dream about.

India's No. 1 Business channel now brings the magic of 20-20 to its viewers with its new show, ‘Stock 20-20’. Presented in an innovative format the show will suggest the best 40 stocks to be bought and sold for the day.In a fresh design, the show features suggestions on 40 stocks to be bought and sold, for the day. The stocks to be sold are referred to as the bowlers and those that the experts suggest to be bought are called batsmen.

An undercover investigation by the BBC has exposed evidence of the theft of credit card details by workers at an Indian call centre used by security giant Symantec.A BBC reporter posing as a fraudster bought allegedly stolen but valid UK card details from a Delhi-based man, who denies any wrongdoing. Three of the victims of the scam had bought software renewals from a call centre which handles Symantec software licences.

Google says that its forthcoming Chrome operating system will be so secure that "users don't have to deal with viruses, malware and security updates." But Google's claim is being met with skepticism within the Internet security world.

After a high drama, Mahatma Gandhi’s five personal items, including the iconic round eye glasses, finally went under the hammer and were bought for USD 1.8 million by Indian businessman

Google is celebrating the invention of barcodes . This doodle is visible at Google Australia, Google New Zealand, Google Japan and Google Taiwan. I expect that it will appear on Google.com very shortly.

Apple took what could be a step toward adding a subscription-based music services to its offerings Friday when it bought Lala

Google will appear now on your TV according to reports. Google has been working for the last few months trying to develop Google TV. Google and its partners Sony and Intel are planning to create the next generation of Internet TV sets. Google plans that Android operating system for smartphones will be used in Google TV platform. According to the reports, TV technology will run on Intel’s Atom chips and a new version of its Chrome browser for the project will be developed by Google. Searching the Internet via a television set, this concept is scarcely a new one.