AirAsia India is a budget airline set up by AirAsia, one of the continent’s largest low-cost carriers, and India’s Tata Group.

The relationship between the online retailer and the social network will see users becoming able to add products to their shopping carts by tweeting a special hashtag.

They can do so by replying to tweets containing a link to an Amazon product with #amazoncart in the US and #amazonbasket in the UK. Users will still then need to go to Amazon to pay and complete the purchase.

‘Blue-sky thinking’, ‘pinging emails’ and ‘drilling down’ have been named as some of the most annoying office phrases – according to a new poll.

Jargon clichés such as ‘running something up the flagpole’, ‘thinking outside the box’ and ‘taking something offline’, also featured prominently.

Nearly eight in ten, 79%, of office workers also confessed to using at least two examples of cringeworthy office jargon each day.

A client recently asked me: ‘Is it really necessary to know all that much about traditional values and etiquette and all that in Chinese business culture? After all, China is rapidly modernising and becoming more and more Westernised. We all do business in the same way. Soon the Chinese will be more or less like us.’

The deal for US company Beam has cost the Japanese company $16 billion and will result in the renaming of the company to Beam Suntory, thus creating the world’s third largest high-end spirits maker. Combined total sales of Beam and Suntory’s spirits business in 2013 amounted to $4.6 billion.

The Xbox One will go on sale in the country from September of this year after the lifting of a 14-year ban this past January. Microsoft will launch the console in collaboration with BesTV New Media Co, a subsidiary of Shanghai Media Group.

By offering voice, data and internet services over a single connection, Neotel has established itself as South Africa’s first converged telecommunications network operator. Founded in 2006 and backed up by the financial and technical clout of global communications company Tata Communications, Neotel has since become a major force within the country’s telecommunications sector.