Aegis takes over South African outsourcer

July 2nd, 2009 JOHANNESBURG - The acquisition of the small but well-placed South African software company Cura by Softpro of Hyderabad has presented an opportunity to the Indian firm to become the multinational company that it aspires to be, Softpro chairman Bala Reddy said here. "Cura is an $8-million company which we want to build into a $200-million governance, risk and compliance leader within five years," Reddy told IANS Wednesday at a dinner to celebrate the $90-million buyout.

July 9th, 2009 Official: S. Korea web sites under renewed attackSEOUL, South Korea — A state official says seven South Korean Web sites are under renewed cyber attack.

April 23rd, 2009 EBay wins approval for South Korean acquisitionSEOUL, South Korea — Ebay Inc. has won regulatory approval to acquire online marketplace Gmarket, South Korea's antitrust watchdog said Thursday.

July 9th, 2009 Official: 7 SKorean Web sites under renewed attackSEOUL, South Korea — A state official says seven South Korean Web sites are under renewed cyber attack. Ku Kyo-young from the state-run Korea Communications Commission said the latest assault began around 6:30 p.m.

May 30th, 2006 Sun Microsystems is getting support for its Sparc-based Niagara servers from Canonical, the Linux distributor of Ubuntu, the companies said on Tuesday. The free Debian-based Ubuntu distribution of Linux, launched in 2004 by South African dot-com billionaire Mark Shuttleworth, has already attracted millions of individual desktop users.

July 7th, 2009 WARANGAL - An Indian software engineer from Andhra Pradesh was shot at by unidentified assailants in Johannesburg in South Africa. B Kiran, who was working in South Africa for the past two years, was attacked last Thursday when while returning from work.

June 23rd, 2009 Indian outsourcer Mahindra Satyam gets new CEOMUMBAI, India — Mahindra Satyam, a rebranded Indian outsourcing company nearly brought down in a $1 billion fraud, said Tuesday that C.P. Gurnani, an executive from its new controlling shareholder, has been appointed chief executive.

March 31st, 2009 NEW DELHI - The Dalai Lama, the Tibetan spiritual leader, Tuesday confirmed reports that computers in his office were hacked and saw the Chinese government's hand in the cyber-spying. 'A communication from my office to the central secretariat of the elected government (Tibetan government in exile) about a person who wanted to see me fell into Chinese hands.

July 23rd, 2009 South Korean regulator fines Qualcomm record $208MSEOUL, South Korea — South Korea's fair trade regulator slapped U.S. chip maker Qualcomm Inc.

May 20th, 2005 One of the most advanced eye correction technologies (LASIK) - which eliminates or reduces dependency on glasses - is now available in Kenya. The laser refractive surgery (known in USA as LASIK) means that people using glasses to correct eyesight can resort to their naked eyes once again and for life.

July 1st, 2009 JOHANNESBURG - Hyderabad-based software solutions provider SoftPro Systems has acquired South Africa's Cura Software Solutions for $19 million. SoftPro chairman Bala Reddy and Cura chief executive Avi Eyal inked the deal here Wednesday evening.

July 9th, 2009 WASHINGTON - North Korea is suspected of launching an unprecedented large cyber-attack this past weekend against South Korea and a smaller number of US government web sites. The Internet attacks are not isolated, but closely tied a broader North Korean military strategy, including its recent missile and nuclear weapons tests, the Christian Science Monitor quoted analysts, as saying.

May 5th, 2009 Report: NKorea operating cyber warfare unitSEOUL, South Korea — North Korea runs a cyber warfare unit that tries to hack into U.S. and South Korean military networks to gather confidential information and disrupt service, a news report said Tuesday.

July 8th, 2009 SKorean Web sites hit by suspected cyber attackSEOUL, South Korea — Suspected cyber attacks paralyzed Web sites of major South Korean government agencies, banks and Internet sites in a barrage that appeared linked to similar attacks in the U.S., South Korean officials said Tuesday. The sites of the presidential Blue House, the Defense Ministry, the National Assembly, Shinhan Bank, Korea Exchange Bank and top Internet portal Naver went down or had access problems since late Tuesday, said Ahn Jeong-eun, a spokeswoman at Korea Information Security Agency.

June 11th, 2009 South Korea court rejects claims against Microsoft SEOUL, South Korea — A South Korean court Thursday rejected compensation claims filed by two software companies against Microsoft Corp. Digito.com and Sanview Technology Inc.