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New Delhi, July 31 : Force Motors Wednesday launched two new variants, EX and SX, of its sports utility vehicle (SUV) Force One priced between Rs. 8.99 lakh and Rs. 11.99 lakh (ex-showroom Delhi).

"With this launch we now have multiple offerings with various price points for customers. We will be launching another vehicle by next month and by the year-end, we will be offering products ranging from Rs. 6.25 lakh to Rs. 11.99 lakh," Force Motors managing director Prasan Firodia told IANS.

According to Firodia, the company will start selling its new product, Gurkha, from September in a Rs. 6.25 lakh to Rs. 8.50 lakh price range.

Non-profit organization, Mozilla has announced the launched of a new automated security testing platform called Minion.

The new Minion will offer a flexible and easy to use security testing platform allowing developers to integrate it into virtually any development workflow. The company said that it began the Minion project year earlier and it is being implemented. The release of the version 0.3 marks the major public release for the platform.

According to reports, a Samsung Galaxy S 4 smartphone burst into flames causing a huge fire at a house in Hong Kong.

The reports identified the house owner as Mr. Du, who said that his phone, battery, and charger were all legitimate Samsung products. The fire engulfed his entire house and everything inside was destroyed. Chinese media reports said that Du sat on the living room sofa playing the game "Love Machine" on his charging GS4 when the device exploded.

Social networking giant, Facebook has said that it is planning expand its presence in the gaming market by transforming itself from a gaming platform to playing a role of a promoter and publisher.

The world's largest social networking company has launched a new pilot program called, Mobile Games Publishing, which will allow it to promote small- and medium-sized games and take a share in tis revenues. The company is planning to tap into its 800-plus million monthly mobile app users to promote these games with support.

According to some reports, Google's new Chromecast might offer content form HBO Go, Pandora, Songza, Vimeo expand from its current offering of Google Play, Netflix, YouTube or a Chrome tab.

Software giant, Microsoft has reported the revenues for its Surface tablet computer for the first time and shows that the company is not being able to attract significant number of customers in the market.