After Tata Motors Limited (BOM: 500570), it’s Infosys’ turn. The second largest Indian IT firm offered to buy up Axon Group PLC (LON:AXO), a UK based SAP consultancy firm with a cash offer of £407m. Infosys Technologies Limited (BOM:500209) is buying up the company to increase its presence in the European market. Under this deal, the three founders of Axon Group will walk away with about £70m.

The news sparked fears of job losses and mass-outsourcing among the workers but Infosys CEO, Kris Gopalakrishnan assured that there will be no job losses. He said that there would be little overlap between the clients of the two companies.

At present, Infosys Technologies Ltd. employs 90,000 people majority of which are in India. Axon Group PLC has 2,000 employees. The company mainly works with firms that use business software developed by German SAP. Mr, Gopalakrishnan said:

“It is very important to us that people stay and make the whole thing work. . . .We are doing this acquisition so we can leverage all the employees.”

Under the current deal, Axon will be paid 600p per share. Infosys is giving the money from its own fund. The deal is backed by the management of Axon Group PLC and its three founders who currently holds just under 17.9% share of the company. The transfer process is expected to finish in November 2008.

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LG  Electronics has  launched BL20 Chocolate  3G enabled slide phone in India.

The mobile phone  features with many facilities with upgraded version of the hidden navigation keys. the phone also has  a 5 megapixel camera with Schinder-Kreuznach lens and flash.

The LG Chocolate BL40 is available for Rs 29,990.

Check the preview and specifications

Key features of the phone are as below

• One-off touchscreen bar design
• 4.01″ 16M-color capacitive touchscreen of 21:9 aspect ratio
• Quad-band GSM support and UMTS with HSDPA 7.2 Mbps
• S-Class Touch UI with pinch zooming and gesture controls
• Accelerometer for screen auto-rotation
• 5-megapixel autofocus camera, Schneider-Kreuznach certified optics, LED flash, VGA@30fps video recording
• 1.1GB of internal memory, microSD expansion (up to 32GB)
• Wi-Fi with DLNA
• GPS receiver with A-GPS support and WisePilot satnav app
• Bluetooth v2.1 with A2DP, microUSB port, TV out
• Standard 3.5mm audio jack, Dolby Mobile sound enhancement
• Stereo FM radio with RDS, FM transmitter
• Full-blown multi-tasking with a decent task manager
• DivX/XviD video player
• Motion-based games
• Smart dialing
• Office document viewer

Nepali Beauty Manisha Koirala finally getting married today in Kathmandu, Nepal. Manisha

Koirala was born on August 16, 1970 and she is a Nepali-Indian actress who works in Indian films and she has largely worked in Bollywood.

Manisha Koirala made her first debut in Nepali movie Pheri Bhetaula in1989 and she acted in Sadagar as her debut in Bollywood. The actress who will be turned 41 years old in 2011 on 19th Jun, 2010. Manisha Koirala getting married to Samrat Dahal, who is 33 years old and 8 years younger to Manisha.

The marriage will take place in presence of Nepal's president Ram BaranYadav and Prime minister of Nepal in Hotel Soaltee. We hope for best and wish them a lot.

Motorola is expertise in creative designing and technology. This time Motorola launched EDA phone i.e. ES400, it is undoubted a brilliant phone. The technology Enterprise Digital Assistant is a device which brings Window Embedded feature. The phone has number of features like Biometric Fingerprint Reader. The phone can be kept save in rain. Low or high temperature will not create any problem to Motorola ES400, these are the unique features in the phone.

More features are following:-

1. 3inch touch screen

2. 256 RAM

3. 1 GB ROM Memory (Real Only Memory)

4. 600 MHz processor

5. CDMA/GSM SIM support

6. Wi-Fi – 802.11 a/b/g

7. GPS

8. Bar code Reader

Those people who liked it, they would have to wait for some more time because by the time price is not declared of Motorola ES400.

Watch Live Streaming of the T20 World cup 2009 super 8 match between Pakistan vs Srilanka Friday, June 12. Start time 1330 local (1230 GMT)

Pakistan haven’t lost to Sri Lanka in any World Cup games, 50 overs or less  In 13 games at big, multi-team tournaments, Pakistan have won 10 of them.

Since both these teams are in the group that contains Ireland, they’ll have to effectively compete in a three-way tie alongwith New Zealand.

While that is easier than competing in a four-way race,

It means that Net Run Rates might probably acquire more importance, and teams will look not only to win, but win big.

Free options to enjoy watching Cricket online.

Anandi Patel, a 37-year-old woman, became the third fatality of swine flu in Gujarat.

Health department officials said  that she died on August 13, and her death due to the virus was confirmed by the private hospital in Maninagar- where she was admitted – on Monday.

Patel was a resident of Vastral locality in Ahmedabad.

Her samples for the swine flu test were sent on admission to the hospital, but the reports arrived as a positive case of swine flu on August 16 – three days after her death.

Reports say that the Gujarat government has now decided to take action against the private hospital for not reporting the death of the woman on time to the correct authorities in the government.