Mobile connections in India will grow to 880 million in 2015 — an increase of five percent from 837 million connections in 2014 — and spending on mobile services will grow four percent to reach $21.4 billion in 2015, information technology research and advisory company Gartner Inc. said on Wednesday. The spending on mobile services […]
The Indian government is exploring the possibility of bartering sugar for pulses with countries like Canada and others, said union Commerce and Industry Minister Nirmala Sitharaman here on Sunday. She said sugar is getting accumulated in large quantities for the past couple of years and unless these stocks are exhausted, sugarcane farmers will not be […]
Companies operating in the ‘Internet of Things (IoT)’ space have a potential to churn $750-900 million from the east Indian states, a study said. According to a joint report from PriceWaterhouseCoopers and Confederation of Indian Industries, West Bengal – which has the sole metro city in the east – is the most likely candidate to […]
Taiwanese electronics major AsusTek’s chairman Jonney Shih on his maiden visit to India on Thursday said the group was shifting its focus from notebooks to smartphones and convertibles. “The PC market is slowly showing signs of decay as the world is moving to a cloud first, mobile first platform. At Asus, we believe in riding […]
With Australia’s Federal Court declaring invalid the approval of the Adani Group’s $16 billion coal mine in central Queensland, there is speculation that the Gautam Adani-led Indian conglomerate may decide to walk away from the controversial project. According to Australian media reports, the approval was set aside by the court after it was found that […]
State-run telecom service provider Bharat Sanchar Nigam Ltd (BSNL) will invest Rs.6,000 crore over the next three years to set up some 40,000 Wi-Fi hotspots across the country, its chairman-cum-managing director Anupam Shrivastava has said. “We are now thinking of rolling out wi-fi hotspot through capital expenditure model also. We are in the process of […]
American automobile manufacturer General Motors (GM) on Wednesday said it will invest around $1 billion in India to augment production capacity and create 12,000 jobs locally. “The Chevrolet brand is committed to India for the long-term. We will be investing about $1 billion into India in the next five years. We are delivering on our […]
The agro vertical of automotive maker Mahindra & Mahindra on Friday said it has forayed into the edible oil segment, investing Rs.8-10 crore in this space. “We have come up with edible mustard oil which is available in West Bengal and will gradually be made available in other eastern markets. For the edible oil segment, […]
NASA’s Curiosity Mars rover has provided images of sunspots from the other side of the Sun that is turned away from Earth. While investigating bedrock types on Mars’ Mount Sharp and preparing for a drill test, Curiosity tracked large sunspots from the opposite side of the Sun. “Tracking the sunspot activity on the far side […]
Gionee, the Chinese mobile phone manufacturer based in Shenzhen, is a company that doesn’t make much noise. Its motto seems to be to get the product to do the talking. IANS got its hands on the handset maker’s top device in India, the S7, which was launched at Rs.24,999. Here’s our analysis: Design: The S7 […]