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ELECTRONICS 
October 1, 2019 Amazon, Flipkart festive sales: Consumer electronics, fashion catching up with mobile phones
Brands OnePlus, Samsung and Apple together clocked over Rs 750 crore in the first 36 hours (includes early Prime access) of sale. Mobile phones may still be the go-to product for millennials during the ongoing online festive season sales but consumer electronics and fashion are fast catching up. Driven by a wide selection and lucrative […]
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ELECTRONICS 
August 31, 2019 Mobile phones manufacturing surges 8-folds in last 5 years; electronics goods production doubles
Mobile phones manufacturing has emerged as a flagship sector under the ‘Make in India’ and ‘Digital India’ initiatives. (Bloomberg image) Production of mobile phone in India has shot up 8-folds in the last five years. India produced mobiles phones worth $ 24.3 billion in 2018-19, which was just $ 3.1 billion in 2014-15, according to […]
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ELECTRONICS 
May 15, 2019 India to allow import of second-hand electronics at last; windfall for refurbished phones market?
Phone companies – Apple especially – could soon be posed to take a bigger bite out of India’s growing refurbished phones market, with the Directorate General of Foreign Trade (DGFT) allowing – via a notification on May 7 – the import of refurbished electronic goods, reports ET Prime. The caveat – and it’s a big one […]
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ELECTRONICS 
April 20, 2019 Mobile phones, consumer electronics lift Reliance Retail
KOLKATA: India’s largest retailer Reliance Retail’s cellphone and consumer electronicsretailing business crossed the $5-billion revenue mark in the year to March, underscoring the breadth of its market presence. Sales in these two categories — which account for about a third of the total — through Reliance Digital and Reliance Jio stores more than doubled to Rs […]
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COUPONS 
June 11, 2018 Shoppers will go in-store if they have loyalty points and coupons on their phones, says study…
Untapped marketing resource: loyalty points and coupons in m-wallets could drive footfall A quarter of European shoppers would be more likely to use coupons in a store if they could store them on their mobile phone, showing that mobile wallets could be a way to help boost in-store footfall. So suggests a study by […]
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NEWS 
October 26, 2017 Apps for tracking phones and loved ones being used by criminals
CREEPY smartphone apps are being which can trace your every move and access your camera and microphone are being used by stalkers. Police use “commercial spyware” to track down crooks, suspicious lovers can use it to track wandering partners, and parents can use it to keep an eye on their children. But, the technology is […]
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ALL DEALS 
February 18, 2017 4 New LG X Series Phones Focus on Different Feature Sets
Smartphone makers are doing all they can to come up with the next best thing and until now, each attempt was designed to put more of the best technology in a single device. But there is only so much you can put in a form factor as small as a smartphone. The new approach by […]
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ALL DEALS 
February 18, 2017 LG’s Four New Phones, Premium Features at a Medium Price
Very soon, some major smartphone manufacturers are going to release new models of their flagship devices. LG is getting a jump on them by announcing four new LG phones. And the company is hoping to attract customers with some mid-range price tags on those phones. The company says that the Magna, Spirit, Leon, and Joy […]
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COMPUTERS 
January 31, 2017 IRS Ups Deduction vs. Depreciation to $2,500 for Computers, Phones
The Internal Revenue Service has increased the amount small businesses can expense versus depreciate on their taxes each year. It’s a change that should simplify record keeping and increase the amount of a capital investment you can write off in a year. Specifically, the federal agency has boosted the so-called “IRS safe harbor” limit businesses […]
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ELECTRONICS 
January 25, 2017 Ooma Office Adds IP Phones to Analog, Mobile Lineup for Small Business
Ooma, a cloud-based phone service provider for small business, just announced on its blog that it intends to include IP phone support for its Ooma Office phone system, which means that businesses can now use analog phones, fax machines, mobile and IP phones in combination. Initially, the company plans to sell and support three phones — Cisco […]
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COMPUTERS 
December 19, 2016 20 Top Privacy Screen Protectors for Your Computers and Phones
With he list of security threats ever increasing, you can now add visual hacking to the list, which as the name implies is when individuals look at your screen to steal information. With smartphones, tablets and laptops now being used outside of the office just as much as inside, you have to take precautions if […]
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COMPUTERS 
December 19, 2016 IRS Ups Deduction vs. Depreciation to $2,500 for Computers, Phones
The Internal Revenue Service has increased the amount small businesses can expense versus depreciate on their taxes each year. It’s a change that should simplify record keeping and increase the amount of a capital investment you can write off in a year. Specifically, the federal agency has boosted the so-called “IRS safe harbor” limit businesses […]
