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On Tuesday, at Oracle's annual OpenWorld conference in San Francisco, the database giant said that rather than being merely a "marketing application," social networking should serve as a fundamental technology for other cloud applications.

In its ongoing attempts to bring about a reduction in its costs and to raise funds for developing `Atlantic' hybrid model, Fisker Automotive - the Anaheim, California-based electric hybrid automaker behind the `Karma' plug-in hybrid
- has reportedly held talks with prospective strategic partners.

According to an AllThingsD report, a strategic announcement by Internet search giant Google is apparently in the offing this week, with the company likely to bring on Street View images to its mobile Google Maps Web app.

The disclosure, coming from a review on Google Maps for Android by AllThingsD's Walt Mossberg, implies that Google is trying to fortify its hold on mobile maps, especially after Apple's iOS 6 maps fiasco.

Two-wheeler giant Bajaj Auto on Tuesday posted a year-on-year decline of 14 per cent in overall sales for the month of September.

In its sales statement, Bajaj Auto confirmed that it sold 360,152 units in September this year, down from 417,686 units in the corresponding period of the previous year.

The auto giant held this year's late festive season along with sluggish market conditions responsible for the decline in sales.

Last month the government at the centre capped the maximum number of subsidized LPG cylinders at six per household, and added that any cylinder beyond that limit will be available at a market price of Rs 817.50. But, a non-subsidized LPG cylinder in Nagpur now costs Rs 953 each, an almost 17 per cent up from last month's announced price of Rs 817.50.

Users of the 5kg LPG cylinder are the worst hit by the price hike. The price of 5kg LPG cylinder has jumped almost 85 per cent, from Rs 294 in September to Rs 542 in October.

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