Lives of the rich and the famous are no longer mysterious or inexplicable; they are out in the open for all to consume. In today’s world, being famous means agreeing to give up your privacy to a large extent. Social media has allowed a common person to become the superstar they always looked up to.

Social media and our allied culture have prompted three substantial changes to the word celebrity: Today we see social media platforms such as Twitter, YouTube, Facebook, Instagram give normal people an opportunity to gain fame, and they also give closely monitored celebrities an opportunity to connect with fans and air their grievances.

Microsoft will start rolling out its new operating system Windows 10 around the world, including India, with a host of new features as the long-time leader in PC software tries to lure back consumers who gave up on Windows for mobile devices.

Armed with new innovative features like Cortana, an Xbox app and Microsoft Edge, the long-awaited Windows 10 would be available to computers and tablets in 190 nations.

BSE Sensex and NSE Nifty after an early bounce back were just managing to hold in green in the early noon session. There were bouts of profit taking that were restricting any major gains and consistency in the markets.

Yes Bank and Vedanta stocks gained ahead of their First Quarterly of the financial year.

BENGALURU | MUMBAI: India's $146-billion information technology (IT) industry is consistently haemorrhaging more people than ever before, even as the sector and large companies such as Tata Consultancy Services(TCS) and Infosys achieve greater size and scale with each passing year.

Over the last four quarters, India's largest software exporters TCS, Wipro and Infosys combined have lost roughly over 100,000 people between them, ET's analysis shows.

Coming down hard on carmakers found to be restricting sale of spare parts in open market, fair trade regulator CCI on Tuesday imposed a penalty of Rs 420.26 crore on Hyundai Motor India and asked two others -- Reva and Premier -- to 'cease and desist' from anti-competitive practices.

This follows penalties totaling Rs 2,544.64 crore imposed on 14 other car makers in August last year in the same case. Those companies included Honda Siel, Fiat, Volkswagen, BMW, Ford, General Motors, Hindustan Motors, M&M, Maruti Suzuki, Mercedes-Benz, Nissan Motors, Skoda, Tata Motors and Toyota Kirloskar Motors.

PNB Executive Director (with additional charge of MD & CEO) Gauri Shankar said PNB plans to sell NPAs worth Rs 2,600-3,000 crore to ARCs in the current financial year.

On the bank going to qualified institutional buyers (QIBs), he said it would be done next fiscal.

Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI) has cancelled Sahara Asset Management Company's license, saying it is not fit to carry out the business of mutual fund.

Sahara's fund management license would reportedly stand cancelled two months from the date of the order.

Local search engine Justdial today reported 18% increase in net profit at Rs 33.17 crore for the quarter ended June 30, 2015.

The company had reported a net profit of Rs 28.11 crore in the corresponding quarter a year ago, it said in a BSE filing.

MUMBAI: Barely a week into the launch of Hyundai's Creta, sports utility vehicle with an automatic transmission, Mahindra & Mahindra, India's largest selling utility vehicle maker has officially re-launched its own automatic version on the new generation Scorpio at 13.13 lakh ex-showroom New Delhi, a good Rs 45,000 lower than its new rival Creta.

Available on the S10 variant, on a like to like comparison, a 2 wheel drive automatic transmission - Scorpio is priced Rs 45,000 lower versus Hyundai Creta, which is priced at Rs 13.58 lakh ex-showroom New Delhi.

Google is bidding adieu to Google Plus, an awkwardly named social network that the American search engine had launched four years ago hoping it would become a serious rival to Facebook.

Google has spent the last several months chopping up Google Plus’s most useful pieces and making them separate services as it moves away from making Google Plus the central hub for all Google-related activity.

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