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According to media reports that were released on Friday, India’s biggest car manufacturer, Maruti Suzuki aims to hire 3,000 employees in the next three years.

Head of Human Resources, SY Siddiqui said that Maruti Suzuki intends to invest Rs. 2 billion to add showrooms and regional stockyards. This will be done in order to cut down the delivery time of cars to dealerships and save transportation costs.

Maruti Suzuki stands at Rs. 1, 371, up 0.68% on the BSE on a volume of 0.88 lakh shares.

The Aditya Birla Group plans to touch its earnings to $65-billion by 2015 as quoted by group Chairman Kumar Mangalam Birla on Thursday. He said that in 2008, the group had a turnover of $30 billion and also became a Fortune 500 company. And this was accomplished two years ahead of schedule.

At present, the company’s 50% income comes from its overseas operations.

The group boasts of 1.3 lakh employees in 25 countries.

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Official figures have revealed that sales of personal computers across India managed to rise by 26% during 2009's October-December quarter, on an year-to-year basis, pointing at a strengthening recovery. The numbers were released by the research firm IDC on Friday.

While the sales of desktop computers surged by 14.6% as compared to last year, to 1.27 million units, those of notebook PCs hiked by more than half to 93,911 units in the three months up-to December 31, 2009, taking the total figure to 1.97 million units for the entire quarter.

Shipping companies in Australia will have to pay fine for cleaning up the seas and the pristine beaches of Queensland. This happened after oil spill up by the Pacific Adventurer. The fine has been forced by the federal government.

This was announced on Friday, when the Federal Transport Minister Anthony Albanese said that the government will be increasing the Protection of the Sea Levy, temporarily. The step has been taken to recover the cost of clean up.

The British media major BBC's online news portal is the second-most popular and widely used website in the UK, after Google. It has already launched a number of mobile services which includes the iPlayer on selected handsets and applications.

Now BBC is planning to launch its first application for the iPhone. The launch includes the iPlayer catch-up television service. This is because BBC is trying to replicate the popularity of its online content on mobile phones.

Now HBO GO will provide Web access to its subscribers on cable TV at no extra charge. In order to hang on to subscribers during a down economy, this is an attempt made by the on-demand movie providers.

The company has announced the move to reduce operational costs. Netflix and other services attract more and more consumers now days.

Time Warner, HBO's parent company had made an attempt to provide the new streaming service and to build a competitor base against Netflix Web-streaming.