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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
The hypercompetitive smartphone market in India is replete with smartphones, across price bands, that offer very little to distinguish them, whether it be in terms of specifications or even colors (really, blue is the new black!). Well, not quite! Take, for instance, Realme, 2018’s breakout smartphone brand that has come up with the Realme X. …
Even as India and the US were engaged in hectic talks to smooth over ruffled trade ties, in the backdrop of US President Donald Trump’s warning India that high tariffs on American products were “no longer acceptable”, the Indian government has been quietly giving top US brands such as Apple and Walmart relaxations in FDI …
India represents one of the world’s fastest growing smartphone markets, with the smartphone market growing by around 10% in 2018. A confluence of factors, driven by a growing aspirational class getting more connected, via increased availability, accessibility and affordability of devices and data have contributed to this market growth. The smart feature phones and, more …
Apple hasn’t had much to celebrate in India of late, but 2019 is becoming a turning point for the company. The Indian government has signed off on two key factories, allowing Apple to locally manufacture iPhones. That’s a huge deal because India has a prohibitive 30% import tax on devices that are imported from other …
To make India a $5 trillion economy by 2024-2025 as the fourth Industrial Revolution or Industry 4.0 knocks at the door, the country urgently requires a renewed focus on skilling the youth in advanced technologies as robotics, Artificial Intelligence (AI), Internet of Things (IoT), 3D printing, data analytics and quantum computing. The onus to create …
In February Patently Apple posted a report titled “The Lack of Flagship Apple Stores in India is Damaging Apple’s Premium Brand. Then in early May a new rumor surfaced that after the Indian elections there could be some movement on allowing Apple to proceed with their first flagship Apple Store in India. Modi went on …