The festive season, which usually starts from September, is when 35 per cent annual sales get transacted for most durables firms.
All but 500 who booked Note 7 phones have bought older devices instead of cancelling their orders but Samsung may still lose market share this festive season.
A company executive said a recently opened museum at Rashtrapati Bhawan was the trigger for getting a restaurant in the complex as visitors come from far-flung places
While the first half of the year saw India's e-commerce market shrinking, the success of Diwali sales will boost the sector beyond last year's benchmark
Flipkart and Myntra, together, post higher sales than Amazon
Good pay hikes, positive macroeconomic factors and the taming of inflation have had a positive effect on purchases
The company will meet DGCA next week and is putting in place a strategy to contain the damage
Flipkart has seen 33 per cent growth in past 6 months despite slowing e-commerce business and stiff competition from Amazon.
Plans a high-voltage relaunch of Note7, multi-media campaign before new iPhone launch
Most technology companies such as Infosys and Wipro, multinationals such as Amazon and IBM, and start-ups such as Flipkart have made the city their home thanks to its salubrious climate, cosmopolitan culture, and the ability to get talent locally
LinkedIn hopes to bring more first-time job seekers there, apart from technology talent from the smaller cities.
Looks at 100 km ride on single charge, ideal for big cities
Companies bank on festive season to beat slow market blues
Automobile makers in India are embracing taxi-hailing apps such as Uber and Ola, hoping to ride on their expansion to sell more cars, a contrarian view to companies in Western markets that fear a drop in car sales due to them
Last year, Apple had shipped close to 2 million units into India, this year, the target is to reach 3 million units
Indians prefer to buy electronic products such as smartphones offline. The reason being the ability to "touch and feel"
'In two years there will be consolidation. Look at the Indian brands now. Only three of us are surviving, many others have died. What will differentiate us are two things -- timing of our launches in the market and the communication to the consumer," Narendra Bansal, CMD of Intex, tells Arnab Dutta.
Ola's cash reserves are starting to run dry. The company was in talks to raise $1 billion in funding by the end of July, but no announcement has been made as yet
The community has taken offence to being wrongly stereotyped as watchmen in the ad which also plays on an exaggerated Hindi accent to seem funny
While the redeployment of talent from companies that have shut down into other start-ups is a great move, some say the gesture is gaining more visibility than the actual companies
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