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  • Ratan Tata Investment Underscores How Xiaomi Defies Odds

    CHINA, 2015/05/03 It was only last December at the same time as Chinese smartphone sensation Xiaomi was getting bad press for a reported intellectual property trouble in India. Five months later, that story has faded, restored by a well-received product launch in the country in April along with even additional striking news: Esteemed Indian tycoon business leader Tata has bought a stake in the company. Terms weren’t disclosed. That quick reversal in perceptions and new partnership in India underscores how Xiaomi, a “startup” flush with experienced leadership at the top of the company, has been finding ways to challenge odds and advance in business. Though only five years old, its chief Lei Jun combines two decades of experience in the industry. Co-founders hail from Google, Microsoft and Motorola, bringing ideas about how small businesses can get ahead of entrenched ones. Xiaomi shook up smartphone sales in China, the world’s major market for the devices, in part by eliminating middlemen in its sales channels and passing savings from an online business model along to grateful, mostly young, consumers.

  • Using your mobile phone as a handy tool for financial transactions in India...

    INDIA, 2015/04/25 Using your mobile phone as a handy tool for financial transactions, instead of cash or cards, has become a reality with mobile wallets (m-Wallets), and though a relatively new concept, it is fast gaining popularity across the world. With the human race’s increasing penchant for ‘all things technology’ to make life simpler and additional efficient, it’ll not be long before innovations like m-Wallets make the traditional leather wallet completely redundant. A mobile m-Wallet is essentially a digitized vault for personal identification and making financial transactions, be it airline or hotel bookings, banking, communication, receiving and managing offers and reward bonuses; all integrated across various consumer platforms.

  • In August 2013 Bharti Airtel raised its stake in Airtel Nigeria

    INDIA, 2014/10/11 In August 2013 Bharti Airtel raised its stake in Airtel Nigeria by 13.36 %. BusinessDayOnline quoted a note to stakeholders as saying that the stakes had been acquired from 'certain existing shareholders although the financial details not disclosed. Looking at Airtel's African subscriber base, Nigeria is its biggest market, with some 21.59 million subscribers at the end of June 2013. It represents 30 % of Airtel's African base. This is a market in which Airtel has to perform well in if it is to justify to its shareholders that it has made the right call in acquiring Zain's African assets in April 2010.

  • Airtel sells telecom towers in Africa

    INDIA, 2014/10/10 Bharti Airtel has signed an agreement with Helios Towers Africa (HTA) to sell its telecom towers. The transaction was made for an undisclosed all. The New Delhi-based company will divest the towers across four nations in Africa, a move that will help it reduce deficit and capital spending and allow Airtel to focus on its core business and customers. The transaction will enable HTA to own additional than 7,800 towers across Africa, making it the major independent tower company in the continent, Bharti Airtel said in a statement.

  • Online shopping in India in booming

    INDIA, 2013/02/11

  • Telenor to limit funding for Indian operations

    INDIA, 2013/01/16 Scandinavian operator Telenor has scaled back its Indian unit, stating that it intends to spend no additional than INR155 billion (US$2.85 billion), with the goal of recouping this amount by the end of Q4 2013. The operator’s CEO Jon Fredrik Baksaas said: “The decision by India’s Supreme Court in February to revoke amount our licenses took the entire industry by surprise and we were faced with an intense period of uncertainty for the next 10 months.” Next taking the decision to acquire new licences in the recent spectrum auctions, Telenor has presently established its “strategic direction and financial objectives” for the Indian market.

  • Digitized e-service becomes blessings for commoners

    BANGLADESH, 2012/12/20 Speakers including ICT experts at a seminar on Sunday said the expanding digitized e-service facilities at the grassroots has already become blessings for the common people that substantially eased the civic life. They were addressing the daylong seminar styled 'E-service activities, management of computer laboratories in educational institutions and launching digitised signature' in the conference room of the deputy commissioner of Panchagarh.
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