Not so long ago, India was off the radar for the famous FAANG group of tech giants who have disrupted the way billions of people communicate, connect, shop and entertain globally. Today, the famous five — Facebook, Apple, Amazon, Netflix and Google — are fighting for space in the “mobile first” Indian market where digitisation …
Google bets big with several ‘India first’ features
From alerting Google Maps users when their vehicle goes off-route to partnering with the Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs for the “Loo Review” campaign, the bullish search engine giant has had a history of building India-first features for the world’s second-largest population. India also has the second-biggest digital market and the Internet population of …
Apple’s India revenues bounce back in June quarter
Apple CEO Tim Cook has said that growth in India has bounced back in the April-June quarter, after an underwhelming first six months of the fiscal year which underlined the iconic smartphone maker’s challenges in the South Asian nation in the face of competition from Chinese rivals such as Xiaomi and OnePlus, besides South Korea’s …
Cisco Joins Google to Launch Free Public Wi-Fi in India
In a bid to benefit millions of Internet users and connect the next billion users, global networking giant Cisco has teamed up with Google to roll out free, high-speed public Wi-Fi access globally, starting with India. The first pilot under the partnership has been rolled out at 35 locations in Bengaluru, Cisco said here on …
Why Indian Game Developers Prefer iOS Over Android for Premium Content?
In March this year, Apple revealed that the App Store hosts over 300,000 free and paid iOS games worldwide. The Cupertino giant has steadily made the App Store an attractive destination for not only the makers of renowned titles such as Clash of Clans and PUBG Mobile but also a large number of indie game …
The Gorgeous OPPO K3: A Photoessay
The new OPPO K3, the latest in OPPO’s K Series, is a gorgeous smartphone powered by a Qualcomm Snapdragon 710 SoC, alongwith 6GB and 8GB of RAM. The K3 sports a 6.5-inch notch-less Super AMOLED panoramic screen and a screen-to-body ratio of 91.1% and aspect ratio as 19.5:9. The in-display fingerprint sensor with an AI …
WhatsApp Pay coming to India later this year, says global head Will Cathcart
Facebook-owned WhatsApp is all set to launch its peer-to-peer, UPI-based Pay service for over 300 million users — especially the small and medium businesses (SMBs) — in India sometime later this year, its Global Head Will Cathcart announced here on Thursday. WhatsApp launched a test run of its payments service with one million users in …
Redmi push & Jai Mani’s exit: End of the road for Xiaomi’s Poco brand?
Xiaomi may well be looking at killing its newly created sub-brand Poco, say analysts, with one of the top executives responsible for its development quitting amid the Chinese handset maker’s renewed push on the mid-to-premium price segment through newly created sub-brand Redmi. This price segment was previously catered through the Poco sub-brand. Speaking to ET, Xiaomi’s India head …
Years later, Virtual Reality headsets are yet to take off
Having been around for nearly five years now, Virtual Reality (VR) headsets are yet to find adoption among the masses. You only find them tucked away in a corner at the neighbourhood mall where kids wearing head-mounted devices (HMDs) experience virtual games. Even those who bought VR headsets — either as an independent unit or bundled with …
Facebook has no choice but to topple TikTok in India
Chasing 15 seconds of fame, millions of Indians are hooked to TikTok and the success of the Chinese short video-sharing app — despite controversies and calls for regulation — has forced major digital giants to incorporate short videos on their own platforms. TikTok is available in 150 markets, in 75 languages and has more than 700 million …