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In the festive period between Diwali and New Year, you can bring joy in the lives of people by giving them some fabulous gadgets as gifts. From a confusion of electronics available in the market, we have listed the best of them.

A look at some of the major differencesbetween Amazon's just-announced tablet computer, the Kindle Fire, and Apple'spopular iPad.

A three-day winning streak in the stock market came to an end on Wednesday as investors worried about Europe's ability to contain its debt crisis.

The Fire runs a version of Google Inc.'s Android software, used by other iPad wannabes, and will have access to applications through Amazon's Android store. It backs up its contents wirelessly on Amazon's servers.

The whole world is a market for those who have the money and the inclination. There are a few roadblocks that can be easily overcome with the help of some tips and tricks.

By adding games to Plus, Google hopes to give its fledging network's more than 25 million users a reason to come to the service more frequently and stay longer once they're there.

While Google is synonymous with search on the internet, Bicrosoft's Bing and Yahoo! search too offer very good features for those who are constantly seeking information.

Apple's new services iCloud will allow people to put all the songs they have ever bought from the company's iTunes store on up to 10 devices at no additional charge.

The investments value the social networking site at $50 billion, more than the current market values of Yahoo Inc. or eBay Inc., but below those of Amazon.com Inc. and Google Inc.

By selling the idea of Net as a tool to make profit, Satya Prabhakar turned his pastime into a thriving business.

To help reduce the hardiness of a camping trip, we pick innovative, compact gear that combines convenience with comfort.

Experts say that of all the features, intaglio printing of the RBI seal, Mahatma Gandhi's picture, the Ashoka emblem, etc, are the most crucial. For checking bundles of currency notes, it may be easier to scan them under an ultra-violet lamp.

When it comes to investing, there’s nothing as uncertain as the stock market.

BankBazaar facilitates loan disbursement of Rs 100 crore a month with just 30 employees, most of them banking specialists who had worked at Amazon.com and Microsoft.

Here's a look at the people, places and products doing the rounds these days.

Consumers are moving outside the purchasing funnel— changing the way they research and buy your products. If your marketing hasn’t changed in response, it should, says a McKinsey study.

On September 2, 1969, even as the world was celebrating man’s footprints on the moon, another “giant leap for mankind” was taking shape in a small lab inside the University of California — the Internet was being born.

Risen: By 38.6 per cent, direct tax collections during the first quarter of 2008-09, to Rs 57,373 crore, compared to 28 per cent and Rs 41,391 crore for the corresponding period last year.

Not the best of times for the world's richest man Jeff Bezos