Taipei - Hon Hai Precision Industry Co, the world's largest electronics components manufacturer, and IBM Inc agreed Wednesday to jointly develop technologies to fight carbon emissions.

Hon Hai and IBM signed the agreement at Hon Hai headquarters in Tucheng near Taipei on delivering and deploying GreenCert, the world's first system that can calculate and certify the amount of greenhouse gas emissions produced by a facility.

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Microsoft's $47 billion plan to buy Yahoo may have come unstuck, but that has not prevented the giant from Redmond from aggressively pursuing the online ad market.

IT giant HCL Technologies has managed to bag an order worth Rs 393 crore from National Insurance Company (NIC) to provide information technology related services and operation management modules, necessary to equip NIC with cutting edge technology.

The company, for the project worth Rs 393-crore, is entitled to provide IT services and modernization of business process for a period of seven years to NIC.

SPML Technologies, a group company of Subhash Projects & Marketing Ltd (SPML), on Monday announced the completion of first phase of its automated anytime payment (ATP) kiosks in the state. Through this facility, the electricity consumers will now be able to pay their electricity bills anytime with multiple payment options such as cash, cheque, demand draft and credit or debit card. The company is providing this service under build-own-operate-maintain (BOOM) model.

Yahoo! India R&D will continue to be a critical element in Yahoo! Inc.’s global plans and will grow in the coming days, Pranesh Anthapur, vice president and chief operating officer sought to stress on Tuesday. In fact the research unit of the Web technologies giant will soon add a new 1200 seat facility in the city, he added.

Yahoo India R&D has 120 vacancies, a significant number of them at senior levels, which it is seeking to fill up in due course, he said responding to a report in these columns on Monday on the impact of a global restructuring by Yahoo last week.