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ELECTRONICS 
June 2, 2020 India unveils Rs 50,000 crore schemes to attract electronics makers
NEW DELHI: Union Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad, on Tuesday, unveiled the guidelines for electronics manufacturing schemes with an aim to strengthen domestic manufacturing of five global and five Indian mobile phone makers. The three Schemes namely, the Production-Linked Incentive Scheme (PLI), Scheme for Promotion of Manufacturing of Electronic Components and Semiconductors (SPECS) and Modified Electronics […]
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ELECTRONICS 
February 4, 2020 Coming Soon: A Rs 45,000 crore fund to push electronics manufacturing
New Delhi: The Centre is readying a Rs 45,000-crore fund in an aggressive push to ensure big firms such as Apple, Samsung, Huawei, Oppo and Vivo, besides contract manufacturers like Foxconn and Wistron, bring their global supply chains to India and make the country an electronics manufacturing hub in the next five years. “An inter-ministerial note (on this) has been […]
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NEWS 
June 13, 2018 Apple, Citibank Partner to Offer Up to Rs. 10,000 Cashback on MacBooks, iPads, and More
HIGHLIGHTS Cashback of Rs. 10,000 is applicable on all MacBook variants The offer runs from June 11-July 31 It is only valid via offline Apple retailers in India Apple India has partnered with Citibank to offer cashback on its products in the iPad, Apple Watch, Apple Pencil, and MacBook range. The partnership will entail a cashback of up to Rs. 10,000 and will […]
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COMPUTERS 
May 29, 2018 Netgear Nighthawk Pro Gaming WiFi Router (XR500) Launched in India at Rs. 23,000
\ HIGHLIGHTS Netgear Nighthawk Pro Gaming router is available for sale in India It comes with 256MB flash storage and 512MB of RAM It has been priced at Rs. 23,000 Netgear on Tuesday launched the new Nighthawk Pro Gaming WiFi Router (XR500) at an event in Bengaluru. The company had unveiled the gaming-oriented router in January, at CES […]
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ELECTRONICS 
August 22, 2017 Salzer Electronics targets revenue of Rs 1,000 cr by 2021
Salzer Electronics, engaged in manufacturing of wide range of electrical products, today said it is looking at 15 percent CAGR growth and intends to emerge as Rs 1,000 crore company by 2021, following global technology alliances and enhance the proportion of value-added products. “We expect Rs 430 crore turnover by FY 18, Rs 520 crore […]
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COMPUTERS 
August 4, 2017 Windows Bug Bounty Program Announced With Payouts Up to $250,000
HIGHLIGHTS Microsoft will pay bounties up to $250,000 for finding bugs in Windows 10 Microsoft has been running the bounty programme since 2012 Other companies like Google, Facebook also run their bug bounty programs To ensure Windows 10 is secure and bug-free, Microsoft has announced a fresh round of Windows Bounty Programme that will reward the bug […]
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CLOTHING 
July 17, 2017 Student who spends £800 on a T-shirt insures his clothes for £40,000
Eric Whiteback, 21 from Pennsylvania, USA has insured his wardrobe for £40,000 (Image: Caters News Agency) A student who needs a storage container to house his colossal clothing collection has just insured it for £40,000. Streetwear nut Eric Whiteback thinks nothing of dropping £800 on a t-shirt – despite admitting he only wears 10%-15% of his clothes. Eric […]
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COMPUTERS 
June 14, 2017 Intel’s New Rs. 1,100 Crore R&D Centre in Bengaluru Said to Generate 3,000 Jobs
HIGHLIGHTS Intel Corporation is investing Rs. 1,100 crores ($170 million) in India The investment will be used for the upcoming R&D centre in Bengaluru It has about 7,000 techies to design & power semiconductor chips in India World’s leading chip maker Intel Corporation is investing Rs. 1,100 crores ($170 million) in India to set up […]
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COMPUTERS 
March 15, 2017 Computers could get 100,000 times faster thanks to laser light pulses
Computers could in future run up to 100,000 times faster than today’s electronics after a team of researchers made a breakthrough in so-called ‘lightwave electronics’. The discovery by an international team that electrons in ultrafast laser pulses can be steered through a semiconductor, and at incredibly fast speeds, could even pave the way for quantum […]
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ELECTRONICS 
January 25, 2017 New Curved Phone Over $1,000 Announced by Samsung
Samsung has thrown the smartphone buying public a curve. Cost conscious entrepreneurs won’t be picking this phone, costing over $1,000 and not available outside South Korea. But perhaps it will teach us all something about innovation. The aptly named new Samsung Galaxy Round has a 5.7-inch display with 1080 pixel resolution, the same as the recently […]
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ELECTRONICS 
January 19, 2017 A $1 Billion Twitter IPO, a $1,000 Curved Samsung Phone and More
There’s so much to follow and so little time. Thanks to the Web, you can keep yourself more informed on the latest developments than entrepreneurs at any other time. But, of course, running your business takes time too. That’s why the Small Business Trends editorial team works so hard to bring you the news you […]
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NEWS 
December 16, 2016 Ahead of Trump Tech Summit, IBM Promises to Hire 25,000 Employees in US
IBM Chief Executive Ginni Rometty pledged to hire and train workers in the United States as she and other technology executives prepared to meet on Wednesday with US President-elect Donald Trump. “We have thousands of open positions at any given moment, and we intend to hire about 25,000 professionals in the next four years in the […]
