GOOGLE has offered a significant olive branch to its commercial rivals as it struggled to fend off criticism of its plans to digitise the world's books.

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MAHINDRA Satyam has pulled out of a $75 million software development project at Deakin University that was set to create 2000 jobs in Geelong, Victoria.

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HANGZHOU, China (Reuters) - Alibaba Group said on Friday it is beta testing a new B2B (business-to-business) platform for international customers to be launched first in the united states by the end of the year.

(Telecompaper) Verizon Communications told a court that the sale of Nortel Networks' enterprise business to Avaya jeopardizes critical US law enforcement, anti-terrorism and national defense interests, because Avaya has said it will not take on Verizon support contracts, the Wall Street Journal reported. A Delaware judge scheduled an emergency hearing earlier this week to hear Verizon's concerns about Avaya, which is expected to make the opening offer on Nortel's enterprise unit at an auction on 11 September as one of two potential bidders. Verizon said that if Avaya wins the auction, Verizon and its US military, law enforcement, government, banking, business and hospital customers could be left without communications network support. Verizon's contracts are with Nortel, which is liquidating under court protection in the US and Canada. The buyer of the enterprise business can choose which contracts attached to the business it will take over. According to Verizon, Avaya is refusing to t

(Telecompaper) Japanese mobile operator NTT Docomo has agreed a takeover bid for Germany-based mobile content distributor Net Mobile. Docomo is offering EUR 6.35 cash per share for Net Mobile, which represents a 53.9 percent premium over the three-month average weighted share price prior to the announcement and a 34.2 percent premium over the closing price on 10 September. The tender offer will be launched by the end of September by NTT Docomo's wholly-owned German subsidiary Docomo Deutschland and includes an acceptance period of four weeks. The supervisory and management boards of Net Mobile have generally expressed their support for the tender offer, and Docomo has already agreed with certain shareholders holding 24 percent of Netmobile that they will tender their shares in the acceptance period. This includes a stake from previous anchor shareholder Swisscom of approximately 15 percent. The offer is subject to certain conditions, including a minimum acceptance threshold of 75 perce

An online petition has led to a statement from Gordon Brown apologising to mathematician and WWII code-breaker Alan Turing.

HANGZHOU (Reuters) - China's Alibaba Group said on Friday it will launch an international business-to-business (B2B) platform in the united states by the end of the year, as the company seeks to globalize its brand.

Department of Justice seeks additional documents relating to search agreement.