John Ribeiro

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EC allows Seagate to buy Samsung drive business

The main impact of the deal would be on the markets for 3.5-in. and 2.5-in. disk drives, where Samsung is not strong competitor, the commission said

Oracle cancels Marc Benioff’s keynote

Benioff invited people to hear his speech on Wednesday at a San Francisco restaurant

India’s low-cost tablet is made by Canada’s DataWind

The Indian government is expected to buy 8 million to 10 million units of the device by March 31, 2012. The country had earlier talked about an Indian designed device as a symbol of national pride

Alibaba’s Jack Ma interested in buying Yahoo

Relations between Yahoo and Alibaba had sunk to a low recently over an online payment unit. Yahoo said it was caught by surprise when it found out that Alibaba Group had spun off its Alipay online payment unit to a Chinese company controlled by Ma

CSC acquires Indian testing company AppLabs

The independently owned software testing company was looking for an exit strategy for one of its main investors

Report: U.S. said to be investigating Oracle’s Africa deals

U.S. federal agencies are investigating whether the company violated anti-bribery laws, according to the Wall Street Journal

Infosys starts offering cloud-based business platforms

Cloud applications are part of the India-based outsourcer

RIM starts trial of music service, launching later this year

Research in Motion is testing a cloud-based music service for its BlackBerry Messenger that will allow users to cache songs on their phones for offline listening

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