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ELECTRONICS August 13, 2016 Foxconn’s Takeover of Sharp Reveals Intense Pressures in Global Electronics
By: sristy SahaThe global electronics industry has shifted massively in the past decade, and it will not stand still for long. Foxconn, the Taiwanese manufacturing behemoth whose massive scale and cheap costs have helped make the iPhone affordable for hundreds of millions of people worldwide, announced Wednesday that it would acquire Japanese consumer electronics company Sharp for […]
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COMPUTERS August 7, 2016 Global IT Spending to Experience Marginal Growth in 2016: Gartner
By: sristy SahaWorldwide IT spending is forecast to total $3.54 trillion in 2016, barely a 0.6 percent increase over 2015 spending of $3.52 trillion, according to research company Gartner. The year 2015 saw the largest US dollar drop in IT spending since Gartner began tracking IT spending. At least $216 billion (roughly Rs. 14,62,620 crores) less was […]
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ELECTRONICS July 6, 2016 NuAns increases budget to launch its Home windows 10 telephone global
By: sristy SahaWhile we took a closer look at the NuAns NEO in January, the japanese organization wasn’t positive if theWindows 10 Cell smartphone became ever going to make it outside its domestic u . S . A .. Now, it seems like NuAns has determined to attempt a much broader launch, as it‘s raising $725,000 on […]
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NEWS June 3, 2016 Apple Says It Has Over 1 Billion energetic gadgets global
By: sristy SahaApple raised the specter of the stop of a technological era after reporting Tuesday the slowest growth salesever of its market–leading, life–converting iPhone and warning it expects worse to come. The California technology colossus said it expects to peer its first decline in iPhone sales within thecutting-edge zone, when it is going to be compared […]
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COMPUTERS May 29, 2016 global laptop Shipments Decline maintains in Q1 2016: IDC
By: sristy Sahathe overall pc shipment for the primary zone of 2016 stood at 1.99 million gadgets – registering a decline of 20.eight percentage (quarter on region) over this fall 2015 and decline of 7.8 percentage over Q1 2015 (yr on year), the market intelligence and advisory services global data corporation (IDC) said on Thursday. the commercial […]
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ELECTRONICS April 10, 2016 Foxconn’s Takeover of Sharp Reveals Intense Pressures in Global Electronics
By: sristy SahaThe global electronics industry has shifted massively in the past decade, and it will not stand still for long. Foxconn, the Taiwanese manufacturing behemoth whose massive scale and cheap costs have helped make the iPhone affordable for hundreds of millions of people worldwide, announced Wednesday that it would acquire Japanese consumer electronics company Sharp for […]
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NEWS April 7, 2016 Panama Papers: How a global media operation held the rich and powerful to account
By: sristy SahaImage credit: Reuters/Mikhail Klimentyev/RIA Novosti With the Panama Papers exposé perhaps we can now say the fortress walls of offshore secrecy are finally cracking. Such havens allow corruption and tax avoidance to take place on a massive international scale by some of the richest and most powerful people on Earth. Meanwhile, the poor get poorer. Western […]
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ELECTRONICS March 30, 2016 You Can Play Counter-Strike: Global Offensive With Lipstick
By: sristy SahaThere’s no dearth of gamers streaming Counter-Strike: Global Offensive. But Chloe Desmoineaux’sbroadcast of the popular first-person shooter is one of a kind. Reason being, she’s playing Counter-Strike by applying make up. Lipstick in particular. Dubbed as Lipstrike, she’s able to play Counter-Strike with a tube of lipstick. Perplexed? Using a Makey Makey kit which turns […]
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NEWS March 21, 2016 Global IT giants handhold MSMEs in Uttar Pradesh
By: sristy SahaGlobal IT majors including Facebook, Amazon andMicrosoft are lending a helping hand to the beleaguered Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises (MSME) sector in Uttar Pradesh to sharpen their competitive edge. These marquee brands are offering their domain expertise to prepare the MSMEs compete at the national and international level through IT-based interventions and business processes. […]
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ALL DEALS March 11, 2016 Three Indian B-schools in FT’s Global MBA Ranking 2016
By: sristy SahaAmong the three, Indian Institute of Management-Ahmedabad tops the list and is the 24th best B-school globally, followed by the Indian School of Business-Hyderabad (29th place) and the Indian Institute of Management-Bangalore (62nd place). Photo: HT Three Indian business schools figure in the annual Global MBA Ranking 2016 of the Financial Times. Among the three, […]
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ALL DEALS March 10, 2016 redBus plans to expand global footprint in next three months
By: sristy SaharedBus joins homegrown consumer Internet start-ups such as Practo and Zomato that have gone global. Photo: Hemant Mishra/Mint Online bus ticketing platform redBus is planning to expand its global footprint by launching operations in at least four South and Southeast Asian countries in the next three months, a top company executive said. redBus, which was […]
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ALL DEALS March 2, 2016 Tiger Global invests $10 million in online videos creator The Viral Fever
By: sristy SahaA file photo of TVF co-founder Biswapati Sarkar. Photo: Aniruddha Chowdhury/Mint Mumbai: Tiger Global Management Llc has invested $10 million (Rs.65.6 crore) in popular online video content creator ‘The Viral Fever’ (TVF), picking up a significant minority stake in the firm, according to filings made by the company with the registrar of companies (RoC). The […]