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December 17, 2016 Apple, Google Locked in Battle for Supremacy
HIGHLIGHTS Alphabet surpassed Apple as the world’s largest company by market value. Apple’s fate to trade consumers up will be decided by iPhone 7 launch. Recently, Apple made a lot of announcements in China and India. At the top of the corporate world, Apple and Google are in a back-and-forth battle to be number one. […]
ALL DEALS July 4, 2016 Automakers, Tech Organizations Decide to Make Deals, Not Battle
HIGHLIGHTS BMW invested in carpooling app Scoop Wednesday. Toyota has allied with Uber to develop new technology. GM invested $500 million in Lyft this January. A flurry of Deals among big automakers and experience hailing and transportation startups is rewriting the playbook inside the contest to control the future of personal transportation. Automakers now realise […]
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March 26, 2016 Uber-Ola battle might usher in transparency
Jugnoo cries foul ahead of Ola’s Chandigarh launchOla ups the ante in contest with UberMeru ties up with local cabs in KolkataOla Micro spearheads company’s fight against Uber Uber has been accused of gaming its rivals in the US by booking bogus cab rides to make it difficult for genuine users to hail taxis. In […]
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March 25, 2016 Ex-Flipkart duo to launch healthcare start-up, Uber-Ola battle goes to court
Photo: iStock What to watch out for Mukesh Bansal, Ankit Nagori to launch healthcare start-up The duo who left Flipkart earlier this month are teaming up and pooling $5 million to launch a start-up in the area of healthcare and sports and fitness. Uber-Ola battle goes from the streets to court Uber has alleged that […]
ALL DEALS March 25, 2016 Uber-Ola battle goes from the streets to court
Photo: Mint Bengaluru/New Delhi: The fight for market share between taxi aggregators Uber and Ola travelled from the streets to the courts on Tuesday when the former sought almost Rs. 50 crore in damages for losses it claimed to have suffered because of fraudulent practices adopted by its local rival. Ola denied the charges in […]
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March 21, 2016 Apple Said to Have Hired a Corporate Security Officer Amid Legal Battle With the US
Apple Inc, amid a pitched battle with the US government over law enforcement’s desire to crack into iPhones, has hired a new security executive to oversee its corporate digital defences, people familiar with the matter said. Apple appointed George Stathakopoulos, formerly vice president of information security at Amazonand before that Microsoft Corp’s general manager of […]
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March 2, 2016 The battle of Indian Internet unicorns
Photo: iStock “I believe that whatever doesn’t kill you, simply makes you…stranger,” so says the Joker in Christopher Nolan’s The Dark Knight. What he really means is not all change makes you stronger or better. Some changes leave a scar, or break us from the inside. When looked at from the perspective of Internet companies, […]
ELECTRONICS February 23, 2016 Japan Inc May Win Sharp Battle, but Lose the LCD War
A state-backed Japanese fund is frontrunner to rescue Sharp Corp, ahead of a rival approach from Apple supplier Foxconn, but industry insiders question whether it can protect the group in the long term amid cut-throat competition. Innovation Network Corporation of Japan (INCJ), if successful, would represent the third bailout in as many years for Sharp, […]
NEWS February 22, 2016 Japan Camera Makers Battle Smartphone Onslaught
Highschooler Nao Noguchi is a perfect illustration of why Japanese camera sales have plunged the past few years she uses her smartphone for everything and cannot understand why anyone would bother with a separate device for photos. “It is easy to take your smartphone out of your pocket if you want to take a picture […]
