To beat its rivals, Nokia has done what most Chinese brands did soon after they entered the Indian market. Tied up with a well-known Bollywood actor as endorser, associated with cricket and established fan engagement initiatives, reports T E Narasimhan.
Every customer, on opening a Payments Bank account, will get a cashback of Rs 250 as soon they bring deposits of Rs 25,000 in their bank account. The account will have zero balance requirement and every online transaction (such as IMPS, NEFT, RTGS) will be free of charge.
The iPhone SE will replace Apple's ageing iPhone 5s model.
Like its competitors, Amazon India, too, offered an 'Online Shopping Dhamaka' from September 21 to October 21, during which sellers offered deals and discounts on a host of products across categories on www.amazon.in.
With a new $100-billion technology fund, SoftBank is likely to go after market leaders.
Things are expected to change dramatically in a few years for urban consumers.
The move comes after Flipkart decided to pass on shipping costs to its sellers, including charging them for reverse logistics.
This was only four days after many aggrieved buyers chose social networking sites to attack Flipkart's 'Big Billion Day' discount this Monday (October 6), followed by an apology from the company's co-founders, Sachin and Binny Bansal.
While industry is upbeat, start-ups in the space sector are finding it difficult to cater to the demand due to a lack of funding, issues related to policy like foreign funding, intellectual property, etc, and a lack of support in testing.
For growth in export, continuous gain in productivity is essential.
'The terrorists will allow only those who practice their tenets to live in Kashmir,' argues Brigadier S K Chatterji (retd).
India to be 2nd largest IT market in APAC by 2019: Gartner
Motorola said it has crossed the three million device sales milestone.
'A perception has been built in our country that whatever Modi says you cannot challenge that.'
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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.
Swiggy is following a path that seems similar to what Meituan, one of China's largest O2O (online-to-offline) platforms that delivers food, sells movie tickets and offers hotel reservation, has done so far, reports Patanjali Pahwa.
Today, more about 35 per cent of Amazon's traffic is through mobiles.
RIL has faced protests from local authorities, activists and residents across India campaigning against masts and roadworks.
Departments of electronics, excise, I-T launch probe into Rs 251 smartphones
It has also filled a key gap in its payment systems team by hiring Ravi Byakod, a senior Google engineer.
Amazon has built the largest store in India with 22 million products.
A 43-year-old man has been arrested by the Delhi police for allegedly being the mastermind behind a fake website of the Prime Minister's Office as sleuths claimed to have busted a racket operating fake government web portals.
Key events that rocked India Inc in 2014 and one of them is Vishal Sikka taking over reins at Infosys.
In August, RBI allowed 11 business houses to start a payments bank.
Beverage major PepsiCo, which pulled out as title sponsors of BCCI's Indian Premier League in October, on Thursday entered into a four-year partnership with the apex cricket body as an associate sponsor for all its international matches at home.
In one of the biggest deals in the outsourced product development (OPD) market, audio and infotainment systems maker Harman International Industries will buy Indian-born serial entrepreneur Romesh Wadhwani's Symphony Teleca for $780 million (about Rs 4,800 crore at Friday's exchange rate of 61.4).
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.
Private firms' offer to print Aadhaar details on plastic card a breach of law
India has pipped China to drive the volume growth of smartphones in the world on the back of falling prices of high-end devices.
The chief executive of the e-commerce giant is making his second visit to India -- the first since Amazon entered this market.
Here's why a career in digital marketing in 2015 will be very lucrative.
After assuming power in 2014 with a full majority of its own, the BJP-led NDA government started an ambitious process of reforming labour laws in the form of codes aimed at making the framework less cumbersome with a variety of alterations. It had planned four codes each for industrial relations, wages, social security and welfare, and occupational safety, health and working conditions. To this end, 35 central labour laws were to be converted into four codes that would have had the virtue of streamlining labour relations. But none of the proposed code Bills could be converted into a law principally because neither trade unions nor industry representatives came on board. They hold the key to India's low-growth-high unemployment paradigm but the government may struggle to push them through this time as well. Somesh Jha explains why
Like their international peers, Indian CEOs too have a significant portion of their incomes coming from stock options and performance-linked bonuses
Allegations of predatory pricing may not hold ground in the high-pitch turf battle for consumers' pocket between e-tail and retail.
Samsung eyes growth in consumer electronics business in 80 districts through its service vans, and adding over 250 service points and as many resident engineers.
To promote localisation of manufacturing and reduce its import bill, the government increased basic customs duty on mobile handsets - from 10 per cent to 15 per cent.
VCs have been especially bullish about India.
Leading the Indian-Americans on the list is 49-year old Aneel Bhusri.
It is all about hitting the ball high and timing it right.
Apple sought exemption from mandatory local sourcing of components for its products
