IBM’s purchase of Red Hat Inc. is a $33 billion bid aimed at catapulting the company into the ranks of the top cloud software competitors. The cash deal, IBM’s biggest ever by far, boosts the 107-year-old computer-services giant’s credentials overnight in the fast-growing and lucrative cloud market — and gives it much-needed potential for real revenue growth.

It’s a high-stakes corporate gamble, full of peril: Johnson & Johnson has turned its iconic, golden-hued baby shampoo clear. The move is part of a sweeping plan to overhaul the company’s struggling namesake franchise. J&J has remade its Johnson’s baby product line, cutting out chemical dyes and adding natural ingredients like coconut oil.

Your brain is an inexhaustible source of secure passwords – but you might not have to remember anything. Passwords and PINs with letters and numbers are relatively easily hacked, hard to remember and generally insecure. Biometrics are starting to take their place, with fingerprints, facial recognition and retina scanning becoming common even in routine logins for computers, smartphones and other common devices.

Delhi-NCR woke up to a hazy Monday morning, with the Air Quality Index at a 'very poor' 369, according to SAFAR (System of Air Quality and Weather Forecasting And Research).

The air quality in Delhi-NCR has consistently been in the 'poor' and the ' very poor' category over the past one week and is expected to worsen further in the coming days.

In a fresh bid to take on Mukesh-Ambani owned Reliance Jio, BSNL has announced a mega offer for its customers. As part of this offer, BSNL offers unlimited voice calling, SMS as well as data benefits to the customers. To avail these benefits, the customers will have to get a BSNL SIM card which will be provided free cost.

State-owned Air India Saturday announced the launch of red-eye flights to some of the domestic destinations, including Goa, starting next month end.

A red-eye flight departs generally late at night and arrives early morning. Because of their low fares, these flights are quite popular abroad, especially in the US and Europe.

For SBI account holders, new ATM cash withdrawal rules kick in from October 31. SBI, the country’s largest bank, will reduce the daily cash withdrawal limit for Classic and Maestro debit cards to Rs 20,000 per day, from Rs 40,000, with effect from 31 October 2018. SBI account holders having higher daily cash withdrawal requirements can apply for other debit card variants that have a higher daily withdrawal limit, the bank has said in a communication.

Largely in line with street estimates, cigarette-to-hotel major ITC on Friday reported close to 12% year-on-year growth in its standalone net profit at Rs 2,954.67 crore for the second quarter ended September 30, with gross revenue soaring 14.7% y-o-y. Revenues from cigarette, non-cigarette FMCG and hotels businesses during the July-September period posted double-digit growth.

Markets regulator Sebi Friday confirmed the interim directions passed earlier against Nu Tek India Ltd (NTIL) that features amongst the 331 suspected shell firms, for misrepresenting books of accounts. The regulator said, it “hereby confirms the directions issued vide interim order dated October 9, 2017” and added that before passing final order in the matter, Nu Tek will be given an opportunity to file a reply and appear for hearing on the findings of forensic auditor.

JT Special Vehicles (JTSV), a 50:50 joint venture between Tata Motors and Coimbatore-based Jayem Automotives, on Friday launched JTP range of performance vehicles – the Tiago JTP and the Tigor JTP. Jayem Automotives is an independent automotive R & D company involved in design, development, testing and manufacturing of a wide range of automotive components, systems and prototypes.

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