The document provides a summary of recent news in business and technology across multiple industries. It includes short summaries of stories about Google's Project Glass, Instagram being acquired for $1 billion, and Adobe scrapping annual appraisals. The rest of the document consists of brief news items and updates grouped under various categories such as jobs, launches, deals and expansions, and industry updates.

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 GoDB Tech, Intel join hands (The Hindu) http://bit.ly/xoAYqj
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 Zynga acquires OMGPOP games company (Times Of India)
 Snapdeal acquires online sports goods retailer Esportsbuy.com (Times Of India) http://goo.gl/NDpjg
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 It’s official: IBM and Red Hat get with OpenStack (Giga.com) http://bit.ly/HPzbFQ Who’s Hiring/Firing?
 Myntra.com strengthens its leadership team (exchange4media)
http://goo.gl/2Uzg2  Facebook hires software engineers from India to fill US posts
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 Ark Beats Facebook, Google at People Search (Mashable) http://goo.gl/3Eqwj
 Infosys to hire 10,000 engineers (Times Of India) http://goo.gl/p8WgU
Launches & Innovation  Mahindra Satyam's Australian unit aims to hire 5, 000 by 2015 Snapdeal
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 Fetchnotes Launches A Simple, Cloud-Based Note-Taking Service (That Twitter  Sony: No job cuts in India, to up headcount (Times Of India)
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 Intel announces PCI-Express 910 SSD lineup for enterprise customers (Engadget)  Ericsson hires 4,000 employees in India (Times Of India) http://goo.gl/bPlnp
http://engt.co/IcFnE8  iGate Patni plans to hire 1,500 for product engineering business
 IBM launches PureSystems, touts integration, flexibility (ZDNet) (Times Of India) http://goo.gl/R6CyR
http://zd.net/HIBgDy  Yahoo cuts 2,000 jobs as radical reshaping begins (CnnMoney)
 I.B.M. Aims to Sharply Simplify Corporate Data Center Technology (NYTimes) http://cnnmon.ie/HfJQw7
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 Twitter Launches Self-Serve Advertising for Small Businesses (Mashable) Other updates
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 Ubisoft launches Rabbids Go games for Apple's iPhone, iPad (Times Of India)  MindTree to open first US development centre in Florida (Economic Times)
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 Salesforce's challenge to Oracle: HR SoftwareQ (Times Of India)  Google's wacky stock split gives founders more clout (Cnnmoney)
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 Wipro launches cloud-based solution for US market (Times Of India)  Pinterest co-founder steps down (CnnMoney) http://cnnmon.ie/Hc0ZoD
http://goo.gl/qMWm2  Announcing one more way Microsoft will engage with the open source and
 Fujitsu unveils SAP-based solution for CGD sector (Times Of India) standards communities (MSDN.com) http://bit.ly/J3dL4V
http://goo.gl/dmnLP  Gartner: Software as a Service Market to Grow 17.9 Percent to $14.5 Billion
 Facestagram: Five New Features Facebook + Instagram Could Launch (Techcrunch) (PC World) http://bit.ly/GTt2Wq
http://goo.gl/iGst0  Microsoft Will Soon Start Charging $40/Month And Up For Its Bing Search API
 Accenture Introduces New Software To Help Banks Integrate Customer Channels, (Techcrunch) http://tcrn.ch/IF7TnK
Streamline Product Development And Pricing (The Street) http://goo.gl/yMF0j  Oracle beats estimates on new software sales
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Deals & Expansions  IBM ramps up data analytics offerings (Times Of India) http://goo.gl/S5zvV
 Aegis expands BPO operations in Costa Rica (Times Of India)
 Microsoft, Microland to offer cloud solutions (Times Of India) http://goo.gl/5srVG
http://goo.gl/OdOwG & Microsoft, Accenture Wrap Azure Cloud Deal  Bangalore is Google's product hub for emerging markets (Times Of India)
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 Infosys, TCS, Sify bag Department of Post projects (Times Of India)  Wavii aims to challenge Facebook's 'news feed' (Times Of India)
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 iGate-Patni bags 5-year deal from Rio Tinto (Times Of India) http://goo.gl/ONV79  Cognizant opens new development center in Singapore (Economic Times)
 Microsoft partners Morpheus, Accel to help startups in India (Times Of India) http://goo.gl/hP4b7
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 Angry Birds maker Rovio buys gaming studio (Times Of India) http://goo.gl/8W264 Addwiser Pick of the Month
 Citrix Systems acquires online work platform Podio (Times Of India) Be Proud of Your Accomplishments, Not Your Affiliations
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 Dell to acquire Wyse Tech for $1bn (Times Of India) http://goo.gl/NWFs5
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