Google and Ford will announce a new autonomous vehicle joint venture at next month’s Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, says a report in Yahoo Autos. If it goes through, the partnership would represent a significant collaboration between two of the biggest names in the tech and automotive industries.

A Google spokesperson said the company had no comment. TechCrunch has also contacted Ford.

Bengaluru: Nike Inc.’s October announcement of a partnership with DreamWorks Animation-backed Nova to tap 3D technology to change the way it designs its athletic gear, was cheered in the Bengaluru office of Infosys Ltd.

The Indian software services firm invested $15 million in Nova earlier this year, its first investment from a $500 million innovation fund created to back start-ups focused on disruptive technologies.

On Monday the world witnessed the successful landing of SpaceX rocket Falcon 9 at its pad. Launching it after 6 months after the explosion of its last rocket, and after three failed attempts, this marks major victory for Elon Musk and SpaceX.

The last attempt reportedly destroyed two tons of NASA cargo when the unmanned spacecraft crashed. Due to weather conditions and several other reasons the launch was delayed but SpaceX without a hesitation launched Falcon 9 from Florida’s Cape Canaveral Air Force Station on Monday evening.

India, with a projected annual growth rate of 7 per cent, has the potential to be the world’s fastest growing economy over the coming decade, surging ahead of its South Asian economic rival China that will continue to see a slowdown, according to Harvard researchers.

“India has the potential to be the fastest growing economy over the coming decade… India tops the global list for predicted annual growth rate for the coming decade, at 7.0 per cent,” new growth projections presented by researchers at the Centre for International Development (CID) at Harvard University showed.

Consider these numbers. Vodafone has 1.56 million sq ft under retail, with 9,880 exclusive stores. The country’s largest private telecom operator Airtel has 2,350 branded stores covering approximately 1.41 million sq ft.

Idea Cellular has 800,000 sq ft of retail space in the market, putting together 7,200 stores in 5,200 towns. Telenor, which currently operates in six circles, has 2,000 small format stores each measuring 130 to 150 sq ft, covering approximately 280,000 sq ft of retail space.

NEW DELHI/BENGALURU: Infosys, which a few months ago won a landmark Rs 1,380-crore contract from the government to develop a stateof-the-art technology platform for the proposed goods and services tax (GST), is going ahead with the project despite the delay in the GST Bill getting passed, according to ministers and executives directly familiar with the matter.

State Bank of India (SBI), the country's largest lender, on Monday said its board of directors had authorised the bank to raise up to Rs 12,000 crore of tier-II capital through Basel-III compliant bonds by way of private placement.

Announcing the committee of directors' decision through a notice on the exchanges, the bank did not mention anything about the timing for the issuances, but said it would do so at an appropriate time while the coupon would be decided at the time of actual issuance.

With uncertainty around diesel engines because of rising pollution in the cities, Tata Motors is moving towards hybrids and electric vehicles. The Mumbai-based company, traditionally been dependent on diesel engines, is working on partial hybrids and fully-electric systems for its future range of passenger vehicles. It is also working on a new generation of less-polluting petrol engines.

Aiming to reduce debt, Anil Ambani's Reliance Communications (RCom) has sold about 150 residential flats in Navi Mumbai for Rs 330 crore.

RCom has already received more than 50% of the sale proceeds and the balance amount will be realised in the next 2-3 months, the company said in a statement.

Internet users in India seem to be putting Telecom Regulatory Authority of India in a dilemma. According to fresh reports, the regulator has already received over 540,000 comments on its second consultation paper over ‘Differential Pricing for Data Services’. Most of these comments are in support of Free Basics initiative by Facebook. TRAI will keep the inputs open until December 30.

While TRAI doesn’t use the phrase ‘net neutrality’ in its paper, the subject of differential pricing itself has been at the core of the debate over net neutrality in India, ever since Airtel announced its Zero Platform. The first consultation paper on this matter had received over 1.2 million emails when several media platforms & Internet firms had actively been supporting the concept of net neutrality, and had launched ‘Save the Internet‘ campaign.

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