Globally India is known as a software powerhouse but that's rapidly changing to the point where you have companies like Wipro having hundreds of hardware engineers.\n\n
Buying LinkedIn means Microsoft will control the best-known network.
'The Chinese outdid them in the price game and turned the competitive dynamics at the lower end of the handset market from price to value.'
The Indian Cellular Association, which bands some 20 handset makers such as Nokia and Motorola Inc, expects Indians to buy 4.4 mn mobile phones in 2002 and 9.5 mn units next year.\n\n\n\n
It will be exclusively available on Amazon.
The number of new entrants is decreasing since 2015, as Indian market matures
In a first, the India's smartphone market fell by 4%.
The company aims to be part of all smart city programmes in the country directly or indirectly and has come up with a host of India-specific products. Karan Choudhury reports.
Buoyed by the growth in the wireless market, the telecom equipment market grew by 10 per cent in 2002-03 to touch Rs 28,238 crore (Rs 282.38 billion), according to a latest survey.
The Zenfone 6 is based on Android 4.3 Jelly Bean operating system but is upgradable to Android 4.4 KitKat version.
Internet giant Google is the most attractive employer for graduates from the Asia-Pacific region in a list of top companies which figures no Indian firm.
Patent fees will likely squeeze margins, and in turn the company's valuation.
Foxconn is yet to submit its land requirements to the Maharashtra government to set up its factories.
The Taiwanese maker is adopting a model of setting up smartphone assembly lines in multiple cities across India.
There are few firms that are applauded for managing a healthy top line growth along with an impressive brand image that inspires most companies.
However, the firm continued with its operation in the Indian market.
The move to allow women to work the night shift, by amending the Factories Act, has been opposed in Delhi by the Mahila Congress, the Indian National Congress's women's wing, and the All India Trade Union Congress.
The Department of Telecom is believed to have sought a 15-year tax holiday on domestic production of handsets and a lower unifom VAT rate among other relaxations to rejuvenate mobile phone manufacturing in the country.
Bharti to spend Rs 1,600 cr for spectrum payout over 10 yrs; Telenor to service its own debt.
On the index, India has a score of 4.52 while that of Switzerland is 5.81
Zuckerberg is kicking off a tour of Europe on Monday.
Around 55 per cent of land in the 36 operational special economic zones (SEZs) in Tamil Nadu is lying vacant owing to various reasons, including the recent economic slowdown.
Chinese handset maker OnePlus on Tuesday said it expects India to become its biggest market in the next few months.
A court ruled in favour of Vodafone on Friday in a long-running dispute with the Indian taxman, a boost for the British telecom group whose tax battles have been seen as emblematic of the troubles facing foreign investors in India.
After Sheryl Sandberg, it's now the turn of Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg to visit India, the second biggest market for the social networking giant, later this month.
The government appears serious about its intent to do away with the sore points in the taxation laws.
The VRS has been mostly offered to cut costs in wake of economic slowdown, the experts said.
He said that the whole world being robbed of creativity and ideas because so many people in India are not online.
The e-filing of returns in FY14 saw an increase of 40 per cent with 25.6 million online returns being filed till March 22, compared with 18 million a year ago.
Lumia 640 XL will begin rolling out globally in March.
As an initial step, Internet.org and Unilever will carry out a comprehensive study to examine the opportunities to increase internet adoption in rural communities.
Employees of around 150 firms may lose out on PF benefits as their companies failed to get an exemption certificate from the Employees' Provident Fund Organisation (EPFO)
Nearly six out of 10 post-millennial respondents own a smart phone, but what is remarkable is that the difference in ownership patterns between metros (58.50 per cent) and mini metros (59.36 per cent) is not much with the smaller cities scoring over the larger ones, TCS said in a statement.
The need for larger investment in infrastructure that is the biggest shortcoming, says A V Rajwade.
Following the footsteps of Motorola, Chinese handset maker Xiaomi is also teaming up with e-Commerce major Flipkart to launch its handsets in India.
PM Modi's China visit may strengthen ties between both the countries.
With Sundar Pichai becoming the CEO of Google, India has one more reason to cheer its prowess in the global IT sector.
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