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Google is buying handset maker Motorola Mobility for $12.5 billion in cash.  That's a 61% premium. Needless to say this is a game-changer in the mobile world, as Google moves down the stack, and is no longer just an operating system provider meaning it competes directly with Apple as well as the various other handset makers who currently use Android. What's more, one of the biggest arguments in favor of Apple's continued to dominance is that without a complete end-to-end "stack", no other platform could compete with its integrated software/hardware setup. Bear in mind that Google has over $35 billion in cash, so this answers one question about what they'll do with it. The company still has tons more dry powder. Other handset makers, like RIMM and Nokia are both up pre-market on the news as the focus obviously turns to Microsoft: Is it now forced to buy one of them? Or does Microsoft benefit because the remaining handset makers (Samsung...

The information technology and BPO sectors have together created the highest number of jobs in India since the recession, according to Union ministry of labour and employment. The sectors have generated more than 15 lakh direct and indirect jobs since October 2008, when India was hit by the downturn and top IT and BPO companies put a freeze on hiring and started laying off people. According to the latest edition of a government survey christened 'Effect of economic slowdown on employment in India', the IT and BPO sectors have created five times more jobs since the downturn than all other recession-hit sectors taken together. The other sectors surveyed include mining, textiles, leather, metals, gems and jewellery, auto, transport and handloom. "The IT and ITeS industry is recovering the fastest after the downturn, and creating job growth," says Infosys CEO and MD S Gopalakrishnan. "Even though the recovery is muted, tech businesses have started ...

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