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ŠKODA AUTO sustained a high pace in deliveries to customers in April. Worldwide, deliveries to customers rose 4.1 per cent to almost 81,400 in April 2012. This represents ŠKODA’s best ever result for the month of April and its third best result overall (after March 2012 and March 2011). In the first four months of 2012, 324,100 vehicles were delivered to customers, representing a 9.8 per cent increase.

Nokia today confirmed that the Nokia 808 PureView will start rolling out in select markets in May. The Nokia 808 PureView is the first smartphone to feature Nokia’s award-winning PureView technology.

Freshdesk, the fast growing online help desk software solution, today announces that it has raised $5 million in financing led by Tiger Global Management. Previous investor, Accel Partners, is also participating in the round.

Intel Corporation and Lava International Ltd., one of India’s fastest-growing mobile handset companies, today announced the general availability of the XOLO X900, the first smartphone with Intel inside. The device will be available to customers for purchase beginning 23rd April at a best-buy street price of approximately INR 22000.

Mobile Internet will account for 25% of China's mobile revenues in 2012, up from less than 23% in 2011. In India, mobile Internet will represent 19% of this year's service revenue. While the figures demonstrate the robust demand for mobile data across the Asia-Pacific, they still pale in comparison to the region's more advanced markets like Japan (40%) and Hong Kong (44%).

Hewlett-Packard (HP) India today announced that it has witnessed significant market traction for its portfolio of mono All-in-One Laser printers among the SMB and SOHO customers.

TomTom today announced it has partnered with HTC to provide the maps, points of interest and turn-by-turn directions for a range of HTC smartphones in India.

Maruti Suzuki is pleased to announce the sale of its 10 millionth vehicle in the Indian domestic market and is the only car manufacturer to achieve this milestone in India. The 10 millionth Suzuki, a Red Swift, was delivered this week to a customer in Coimbatore from the company's Manesar plant near New Delhi.

Hyundai Motor Company today holds the world premiere of its newest concept, a multi-purpose vehicle called “Hexa Space” at the Auto Expo 2012 in New Delhi. The new concept revolutionizes the use of interior space, another example of Hyundai’s “New Thinking. New Possibilities.”

The Volkswagen Passenger Cars brand closed 2011 with a new record: For the first time in a twelve-month period, the brand delivered 5.1 (4.5; +13.1 percent)* million vehicles to customers worldwide. “The Volkswagen Passenger Cars brand made major gains last year thanks to a fresh, innovative and environmentally-friendly model range.

Just ahead of the festive season of Diwali, Samsung India gave its users one more reason to cheer by adding Opera Mini to their Java App Store. Used by over 144 million people across the world, Opera Mini is the world’s most popular mobile browser. Samsung users in India welcomed Opera Mini on its first arrival with open arms and made it the #1 most downloaded application within one month of its debut on the store.

LinkedIn (NYSE:LNKD), the world’s largest professional network with more than 135 million members globally, of which over 12 million are from India, today opened its Technology Centre in Bengaluru. This will be LinkedIn’s first such office outside of North America. LinkedIn has appointed Ganesh Krishnan to lead the company’s engineering operations in India.

 IBM (NYSE: IBM) said today that is rolling out the first solar-power array designed specifically to run high-voltage data centers, integrating AC- and DC-based servers, water-cooled computing systems and related electronics.

Standard Life, the savings and investment specialist, has warned that the effects of inflation can seriously damage one’s retirement wealth.

Deliveries in the period January-September rose to a total of 664,800 units (569,000 vehicles in 2010). With 81,200 new cars finding homes in the third quarter alone (75,800 in 2010), the Czech company set a new all-time sales record for September.

SAP AG (NYSE: SAP) today announced the launch of SAP® BusinessObjects™ Business Intelligence (BI) OnDemand, powered by SAP HANA™. The solution allows companies to quickly and cost-effectively perform detailed real-time analysis of any data, including data from on-demand solutions. The announcement was made at SAP® TechEd 2011, being held in Bangalore, India, October 19-21.

Atos, an international IT services company and Worldwide IT Partner for the Olympic Games, today launches its inaugural IT Challenge. It is a competition looking for the IT talents of the future from 25 universities based in France, Germany, India, Netherlands, Spain, and the UK.

In 1998, one year after the founding of Renault Brazil, Renault opened its first production plant in Curitiba. While visiting the site today, Carlos Ghosn announced that production capacity will be increased by 2013.

Nissan Motor Co., Ltd. today announced plans to invest 2.6 billion BRL ($1.5 billion*) to construct an all-new manufacturing facility in Resende in the Brazilian state of Rio de Janeiro and develop, industrialize and launch new products.

General Motors India registered a growth of 17.35 % in sales led by the overwhelming response to Chevrolet Beat Diesel in September 2011, compared to the corresponding period last year. It sold 10112 units in September 2011 against 8617 units sold in September 2010.