From real estate behemoths to infrastructure majors, from mobile device manufacturers to heavy engineering companies, they all made commitments to the tune of billions of dollars. Unfortunately, the reality has fallen far short.
Apple products are built around the notion of picking up ideas that are already common, reducing them to brightly-coloured, child-like simplicity, imposing conformity, and then suggesting that buying into that conformity means you're a seriously cool adult, says Mihir S Sharma.
The Taiwanese maker is adopting a model of setting up smartphone assembly lines in multiple cities across India.
The past few years have seen a frenzy of phone launches.
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India is the next major breeding ground for start-ups.
The growing interest in alternative sports is encouraging Ronnie Screwvala to extend the U Mumba brand from kabaddi to football and volleyball.
Ratan Tata has made investments in his personal capacity in more than 15 start-ups over the last 20 months.
Airtel rolls out fourth-generation (4G) data service across 296 cities.
Competition in the booming multi-billion dollar Indian smartphone market is further set to intensify with e-commerce giants Amazon, Flipkart and Snapdeal all set to launch Google's much-awaited sub-$100 (around Rs 6,000) handsets on Monday.
'I've been backing businesses in the e-commerce space because they enable goods and services to reach people who could never have been catered to in this manner before.'
Even as the government's move to hike import duties on 45 items is seen as a sign of protectionism, the prime minister was himself involved in the process.
Google is going ahead with a policy revision mandating 30% charge on in-app purchases across all apps on Play Store. This has left developers' community worried about tighter squeeze on their earnings, says Yuvraj Malik.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi had announced the policy last month.
At a starting price of Rs 35,990, the Red Magic 3 is a compelling go-to device if you are a gamer, says Veer Arjun Singh.
It has made everything public in the name of 10 lakh comments it got on draft net neutrality proposals.
Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg is at the second place.
The Moto G6 has a modern screen, a front-facing fingerprint sensor, dual cameras on the rear, a glass build, a USB type-C port and water resistance that could save it from accidental splashes, says Khalid Anzar.
Today pay-later services are available for practically anything under the sun. And these include small purchases like clothes, gadgets, movie tickets, and even food.
High return rates in the e-commerce space are making a dent in the margins of e-retailers.
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'Modi's recent decisions to improve India-China relations, adjust India's neighbourhood policies and to rebalance India's ties with the major powers are linked to his political agenda.' 'Of course, the good part is that this agenda is also in the national interest,' says Ambassador M K Bhadrakumar.
'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.'
Analysts say it is a case of over-promise and under-delivery.
In 2015, as many as 15 major Chinese smartphone brands stepped into India.
The industrial partnership of China and India can bring about greater investment and employment.
What must India do now?
Stung by the flood of competitively priced phones from Micromax and Xiaomi, Samsung has decided to prop up the budget segment by offering 4G-enabled smartphones in India.
'The boycott has not achieved success. Sales figures for Chinese products on the top three Indian online retailers in the first week of October hit a new record. Amazingly, the Chinese mobile phone company Xiaomi sold half a million phones in just three days on the Flipkart, Amazon India, Snapdeal and Tata CLiQ platforms.'
Chanda Kochhar is among the three Indians in Time's Most Influential list.
These five are budget-friendly yet feature rich.
Experts believe cyclical glitches account for the downturn in mobile-phone sales
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.
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However, considered its high price of Rs 25k, Chinese smartphones like Xiaomi Mi4 and Oppo's One Plus One can dent the Japanese phone's popularity.
Experts argue that the top two players in each category will receive funding sooner or later, but for laggards, the market is still challenging
With the festive season approaching, e-tailers are going all out to woo consumers.
Whether they live away from their families or with them, all CEOs struggle with work-life balance, says Shyamal Majumdar.
Internal management tensions, stiff opposition from Chinese handset makers led to halving of the company's market share
