As merger reports of Bengaluru-based Swiggy and Gurugram-based Zomato — two biggest players in the burgeoning online food delivery market — resurfaced, Deepinder Goyal-led Zomato on Tuesday refuted reports, saying they are not in talks with anyone. “We have tremendous focus on our business metrics and have seen great success in our goal towards profitability. …
India’s telecom giants post $10bn loss amid fight against upstart Jio
India’s telecom giants Bharti Airtel and Vodafone Idea have reported a combined $10 billion in quarterly net losses after making provisions to cover to a recent Supreme Court ruling ordering two companies to pay huge fees and penalties within three months. Singapore Telecommunications-backed Bharti Airtel’s loss burgeoned to 230.4 billion rupees ($3.2 billion) for the …
Why feature phone still sells in the smartphone age?
Yogendra Singh, a senior official in the Bihar government, uses an Android smartphone when he has to browse the web, click a photo or watch YouTube videos. However, he still uses his Nokia 105 feature phone for personal and work calls, simply because he finds it handy and its long battery backup is especially helpful …
Mac sales help Apple log strong quarter growth in India
Not iPhones, iPads or Apple Watches but it was Mac sales that helped Apple register record growth in the India market in its fiscal Q4 quarter (July-September period). The company generated an all-time revenue record for the Mac desktops in the reported quarter in the country, it announced on Wednesday. “Despite the tough compare, we …
Apple’s revenue and net profit decline in FY19, but FY20 looks promising
India smartphone market continues to be hard nut to track for Apple. Despite several price cuts and discounts on older iPhones, Apple’s revenue and net profit has fallen to ₹10,538 crores and 262 crores in 2018-19, for the first time in several years, according to the regulatory filings by Apple to the Registrar of Companies, as …
Asus eyes growing its market share in India
Bullish on the future of thin and light category of laptops in India, Taiwanese electronics major Asus is now eyeing 40 per cent market share in the segment by 2020, a top company executive has said. The thin and light category of laptops typically weigh less than 2 kg and have a thickness of less …
Dedicated PC Gaming offerings enter Indian millennials wishlist
The Personal Computer (PC) gaming market is perhaps the only silver lining in the struggling PC market, thanks to the ever-growing popularity of gaming and need for a bigger screen experience among the young Indian gamers. The surge in online gaming can also be attributed to better Internet bandwidth, quality of gameplay, and advanced gaming …
Camera megapixels war: Picture perfect or just a gimmick?
In 2012, Nokia, which was at the top of the mobile industry, brought 808 PureView, a Symbian operating system (OS)-based smartphone with an insane 41MP camera that created quite a buzz. Since then, Android-based smartphones started gaining traction and original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) began adding more camera megapixels to lure the crowd. Now Chinese smartphone …
Google Pixel 4 and Pixel 4 XL: Blame Soli chip for why it is not coming to India
Google just announced the Pixel 4 and Pixel 4 XL phones in New York, but there’s bad news for India fans who were waiting to upgrade. The new phones will not be coming to India and that’s thanks to the Soli radar chip on the front, which is driving the new Motion Sense and the …
Sad Diwali for Pixel lovers as new Google Pixel 4 ditches India
Google which registered less than 0.1 per cent market share in the Indian premium smartphone segment in the second quarter this year, ditched the country on Tuesday, announcing that the newly-launched Pixel 4 and XL will not be available in India. In a statement, the company said it has decided not to make Pixel 4 …