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VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE    HP Advisory on online market place websites At the outset, we would like to thank all our channel partners for their support to HP business. Channel partners are at the core of HP’s business model. HP(NYSE:HPQ) is a pioneer in setting up retail channel in India with more than 1000 exclusive and non-exclusive retail stores and has also invested heavily in developing a network of over 5000 channel partners across 200 cities in India. All our demand generation activities have consistently helped drive business for our channel partners. HP has also made investment in IT Hub activations, ATL/BTL activities with the sole purpose of driving sales growth for our traditional channel partners. HP has always followed transparent rules of engagement and clear governance processes which have helped us to overcome business challenges over the last 25 years. Over the past months, we have seen a growing trend where unauthorized online/ecommer

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE  Internet Grows to 280 Million Domain Names in Q2'14 VeriSign has announced that four million domain names were added to the Internet in the second quarter of 2014, bringing the total number of registered domain names to 280 million worldwide across all top-level domains (TLDs) as of June 30, 2014, according to the latest Domain Name Industry Brief. The increase of four million domain names globally equates to a growth rate of 1.4 per cent over the first quarter of 2014. Worldwide registrations have grown by 18.6 million, or 7.2 per cent, year over year. The .com and .net TLDs experienced aggregate growth in the second quarter of 2014, reaching a combined total of approximately 128.9 million domain names in the adjusted zone for .com and .net. This represents a 3.7-per cent increase year over year. As of June 30, 2014, the base of registered names in .com equaled 113.7 million names, while .net equalled 15.2 million names. New .

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE  Internet Grows to 280 Million Domain Names in Q2'14 VeriSign has announced that four million domain names were added to the Internet in the second quarter of 2014, bringing the total number of registered domain names to 280 million worldwide across all top-level domains (TLDs) as of June 30, 2014, according to the latest Domain Name Industry Brief. The increase of four million domain names globally equates to a growth rate of 1.4 per cent over the first quarter of 2014. Worldwide registrations have grown by 18.6 million, or 7.2 per cent, year over year. The .com and .net TLDs experienced aggregate growth in the second quarter of 2014, reaching a combined total of approximately 128.9 million domain names in the adjusted zone for .com and .net. This represents a 3.7-per cent increase year over year. As of June 30, 2014, the base of registered names in .com equaled 113.7 million names, while .net equalled 15.2 million names. New .c

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE   In order to become a productive and platform company in this mobile-first, cloud-first world, Microsoft has acquired Acompli, provider of innovative mobile email and calendar apps for iOS and Android operating systems. The Acompli investment is part of Microsoft’s effort to help people do more with their mobile devices, using powerful mobile email apps written for iOS and Android operating systems, as well as improve overall productivity across mobile platforms. The “bring-your-own-device” (BYOD) concept is increasingly finding favour with more and more employees - half of all email messages are read first on mobile devices – and this brings context to the Acompli investment. In addition to being a killer app, the acquisition brings to the Microsoft fold a pool of talented people who are passionate about reinventing email and communications, especially for mobile screens. With this cross-pollination of ideas