Essentially, this is BlackBerry's cheapest device that runs its latest operating system, BlackBerry 10.
Taizo Son, SoftBank founder Masayoshi Son's youngest brother, is also planning to enter India.
Bringing in people with large corporate experience also helps in bringing in world class processes in quality and compliance
On Tuesday, while several consumers took to social media to share their grievances about the Snapdeal site crash, many others said they visited the website to either compare prices or for window shopping.
Jack Ma who had five years ago said he was inspired and excited by "Make in India" possibly understood the essence of the signature campaign better than some others and decided to stay away from India other than as an investor, says Nivedita Mookerji.
Amazon's fulfilment centres, which store products of hundreds of vendors selling on the American online major's platform, are being cited by Karnataka state government authorities as a primary concern in an ongoing tax dispute.
The company currently controls over 30 per cent of the online smartphone market in the country, but says that isn't enough.
India's total online shopper base at 30 per cent of its internet population is low when compared with 78 per cent in China and 70-plus per cent in the US.
In India, he has already made investments in both his personal capacity and through DST Global, his venture firm.
Vikramank Singh looks back at the year gone by!
From PhonePe to Jio, everyone wants to be a Super App but it is still unclear if they will actually work in India.
Apple's online launch is a symbol of success for FDI in single-brand retail, though there's no indication of how much the Silicon Valley major would invest in the country.
With aggressive brand-building initiatives, the companies' advertising budgets ahead of Diwali is understood to have seen a 15% spike
The ban in India would hit Chinese internet companies that were making headway in the world's fastest-growing mobile market.
US start-ups crash and burn frequently, so why the concern about start-up losses in India? The principal reason, says Kanika Datta, is that Indian start-ups clone ideas from the US. Flipkart, Ola, Oyo, Paytm are all variations of ideas developed in the US.
With the arrival of new players such as Amazon Pay, Google Tez and Flipkart's PhonePe, digital money companies are now changing their business pitch.
Four websites, including Flipkart, may be blocked if the govt feels they're maintaining objectionable content.
In India, where it is tougher to do business, a start-up gets established by the Series-B stage, and it gets expensive for investors.
What is worrying is that this year, angel investments and seed funding deals have fallen by 40 per cent, ringing alarm bells in the start-up community in India.
India's tech start-ups are following Silicon Valley's lead and embracing the "fail fast" culture.
The chief executive of the e-commerce giant is making his second visit to India -- the first since Amazon entered this market.
The apex court also restrained e-commerce websites like Flipkart and Amazon from selling firecrackers which are beyond the permissible limit.
The new jobs - created both directly and indirectly - will be across industries, including IT, skill development, content creation, retail, logistics, and manufacturing.
The UN Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) said in a report on Monday that a lower but positive economic growth in India in the post-Covid-19 pandemic period and India's large market will continue to attract market-seeking investments to the country. The World Investment Report 2020 by UNCTAD said that India was the 9th largest recipient of FDI in 2019, with 51 billion dollars of inflows during the year, an increase from the 42 billion dollars of FDI received in 2018, when India ranked 12 among the top 20 host economies in the world.
From new and competitively-priced iPhones to slashing prices of its older models, it had a multi-pronged strategy.
The Powerwall 'will be great for India where there is a scarcity of electricity. The sun is there pretty much all day and there is no real good way to store its energy,' Tesla CIO Jay Vijayan tells Ritu Jha/Rediff.com.
Across the country, companies have stepped up their act to contain the crisis. IT and other new economy firms seem to have taken a lead.
"We are delighted to welcome Google as a strategic investor in Jio Platforms. We have signed a binding partnership and an investment agreement under which Google will invest Rs 33,737 crores for a 7.7 per cent stake in Jio Platforms," Mukesh Ambani said at the company's annual general meeting.
As billions of dollars flow into India's booming online economy, some investors are beginning to fret that soaring valuations could hamper market listings.
For last two months, much of the discussion, a large part of due diligence, agreement negotiations, etc, have happened remotely.
Global e-commerce company Amazon has said it sees "substantial uncertainties" in interpretation of Indian laws, which could impact its business in one of the world's fastest-growing multi-billion dollar online shopping market.
Snapdeal to spend $1 billion on 5-6 acquisitions this year.
Snapdeal delivers to the Dharavi centre, where buyers pick up their orders.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi had announced the policy last month.
Snapdeal chief executive officer Kunal Bahl said Piramal's investment was a significant endorsement for the firm and the transformation the company has undergone over the last couple of years.
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Dismisses speculation that he would launch a major e-commerce initiative soon.
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Close to 25 per cent of smartphone-users in country prefer to shop online than use shopping apps, a study by research firm Nielsen said.
A glance back at some of the important ups and down Indian Inc faced in 2018.
Its overall picture quality is nowhere close to what Samsung, Sony or even Lloyd 4K TVs offer, says Veer Arjun Singh.
Top companies across sectors -- automobile maker Maruti Suzuki, consumer electronics giant Samsung to IT giant Infosys -- have reopened factories and offices as India took its first steps towards resuming economic activity after weeks under a near-total coronavirus lockdown.
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