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A Boston University law student has been slapped with a $675,000 file by a judge in the US District Court of Boston who blames the pupil of illegally downloading 30 songs and sharing them online.

It was actually the Recording Industry Association of America who took, Joel Tenenbaum in custody for illegally downloading 30 copyrighted songs from a Peer to Peer network and was asked by the court to pay the fine for the harm done.

Google has put in $100-200 million in web-based games developer Zynga, to help bring out the Google Games.

TechCrunch reports that this supposedly is a small part of a month-old deal between Google and Zynga. This step will enable the game developer develop the Google Games platform.

Zynga, has hit success after delivering hits on the popular Facebook, with game such as Farmville, Mafia Wars and FrontierVille. These games supposedly have raised an approximate amount of half a billion dollars in capital funding, including $150 million from Softbank Capital.

The Thrissur-based South Indian Bank has placed a net profit of Rs 58.44 crore during the first quarter of FY'11, contrasted to Rs 60.11 crore for the consequent quarter of the preceding year.

The bank received a total income of Rs 581.78 crore throughout the quarter under assessed against Rs 521.24 crore for the parallel quarter of the preceding year, converting into a development of 11.61 per cent, a bank publish expressed here today.

Standing on its feet and living up to the market expectations, the Axis Bank stationed a 32% inclination on a yearly basis in its net earnings to Rs 742 crore in its first quarter of the recent fiscal.

The bank’s total proceeds hoisted up 12% on yearly basis to Rs 4,326 crore, geared up by an inclination in the loan book of 39% and a elevated fee income, which amplified by 19%.  

The bank accounted a net interest margin of 3.71%. It is inclined by than the 3.34% NIM placed during the year June 2009 quarter, but lesser than by 4.09% scheduled during the three months to March, 2010.

It is indeed a surprise that in an era where people have now moved on to ipads close to 20% of the retail investors in the Indian market currently hold shares in physical form.

Moreover, it is to be mentioned here that close to one-third of promoters' holdings in BSE-500 companies are in physical form which makes the 2.5% of total shareholding locked.

After Maruti’s market share has gone down below 50%, for the first time in its 25 year history, the country’s leading automotive player is now looking to regain the market share by pushing the rural sales in the Indian market.

According to the recently devised strategy, the company is now planning to raise its share of rural sales to 20 per cent from the current 17 per cent.