Maruti Suzuki’s Ciaz, the company’s answer to the Honda City, sold a robust 6,345 units in October, making it one of the biggest selling cars in India. In comparison, the Honda City, its biggest competitor, only sold 5,120 units. However, Honda could boast of another 3,482 unit sales of the Amaze and another 2,985 of […]
Fans of the smash-hit Chinese smartphone brand in India are unlikely to get their hands on the phone in December even if an ongoing dispute with Ericsson is resolved, according to e-commerce sources. UPDATE: The phone will be launched in the second half of January. Pricing is likely to be around 14,000 for the 3G […]
GMR-Megawide Cebu Airport Corporation (GMCAC) a joint venture between GMR Group and Megawide Construction Corporation has taken full operational control of the Mactan Cebu International Airport (MCIA) in Cebu, Philippines. The MCIA is Philippine’s first airport to be privatized under the administration’s ambitious PPP programme aimed at modernizing key infrastructure assets. In the international competitive […]
Welspun Enterprises Limited (WEPL), part of the $ 3 billion Welspun Group today completed the sale of Welspun Maxsteel Limited (WMSL) to JSW Steel Limited (JSW). The two companies had agreed to the transaction on 18th August 2014. The deal which included the sale of the entire shareholding of WMSL held by WEPL to JSW […]
T-Series, which kickstarted the audio cassette revolution in India, has entered the mobile handset space with the launch of its first phone SS909. The T-Series SS909, priced at Rs 5,999 on Snapdeal, is powered by a quad-core processor and has half a GB of RAM. The company did not specify the display resolution, but said […]
Maruti Suzuki unveiled a new edition of its bestseller Swift hatchback with 10 per cent improved fuel efficiency. The new Swift has been priced from Rs. 4.42 lakh, ex-showroom, onwards. The Swift Diesel has a certified fuel efficiency of 25.2 kmpl, up by 10%. The Swift Petrol comes with a 9.67 % improvement and has […]
The Diwali shopping season has just got over and we’ve heard complaints and reports that online retailers and courier companies have been caught on the wrong foot by the extremely high amount of shopping done by Indians on sites like Amazon, Flipkart and Snapdeal. While earlier, when someone asked: What is better, Flipkart, Snapdeal or […]
Samsung Galaxy Mega 2 has been launched in India by the Korean company at a price of Rs 20,900. The phone comes with a 6-inch, 720p display and 3G, but no LTE has been included. The launch comes two days after LG launched the LG F60, the cheapest phone with LTE in India, for Rs […]
Years after Videocon first tried it, Samsung and Airtel Digital TV are giving the integrated DTH TV concept another shot. The two launched Integrated Digital TV (iDTV), under which Samsung’s range of SmartDirect TVs will come designed with an in-built Airtel digital satellite tuner which will enable DTH signal reception without the need for customers […]
If you are a fan of Intel-power smartphones and tablets, you have reason to rejoice – the Asus Fonepad 7 with the first ever quad-core Intel Atom processor will be launched in India in 2-3 weeks. The models, which will come with a 1280*800 pixel displays, will be the first ever in India to come […]
India will see the launch of yet another big smartphone this week – the 6-inch Samsung Galaxy Mega 2 – priced at just Rs 21,000. It will be one of the cheapest phones from Samsung in the 5.5-inch-plus category, and will compete against HTC Desire 820q (5.5-inch, Rs 22,500) and the LG G3 Stylus (price […]
Intex, which redefined value-for-money at the entry level of the Indian smartphone market with its 2,700 Aqua 4X last month, has done it again – this time with the 4.5-inch Intex Aqua Style X, priced at Rs 4,890. The phone, which is selling like hot cakes on eBay (the only seller) has much better specifications […]
HTC has announced the prices of a slew of products launched in India, including the 64-bit HTC Desire 820 and 820q, the Desire Eye, the One M8 Eye and the RE Camera. The most surprising of all would probably be the ‘limited’ number pricing for the RE Camera – at just Rs 9,999 on exclusive […]
Telenor Group announced today that it has completed the acquisition of the 26 per cent ownership stake in Telewings, held by Lakshdeep Investment & Finance. As a result, Telenor now takes full ownership of the company that operates under the brand name Uninor. The process was finalized after Telenor received approval from the Indian government’s […]
Indians first got a taste of what low-cost marketing and production can achieve with the recent launches of Xiaomi Mi 3 and RedMi 1S. But now, one of the original price warriors of India’s handset market and a fellow Chinese brand – Huawei, has taken on the challenge posed by Xiaomi. The company has unveiled […]
Jumbo Electronics, a leading IT, telecom and consumer electronics retailer and distributor in the UAE, and Flipkart, India’s largest e-commerce marketplace, have launched the world’s first dual-screen smartphone – YotaPhone – in the subcontinent. After being named as the exclusive distributor of Yota Devices in the Middle East earlier this year, Jumbo has successfully expanded […]
Swipe Sense, a 5.5-inch ultra-thin Android KitKat phablet from the Indian brand, has started selling for Rs 9,999 in India. The phone was announced in August, and is pitted as a lower-priced, but hi-tech phablet with a fingerprint scanner and gesture support. It is also one of the sexiest phones, in terms of looks, in […]
Taiwan’s HTC Corp is preparing to launch a new entry-level, 5-inch smartphone in the Indian market priced in the Rs 10,000 range. The phone is expected to be released in the next three weeks, according to a source familiar with the development, and will be the company’s first KitKat phone in the 10,000 rupee range. […]
The telecom regulator’s recommendations on spectrum auction are likely to help Idea Cellular and Reliance Communications – two companies which were facing the highest risk of business disruption from the upcoming auctions. The TRAI has suggested that the auction of 900-1800 MHz spectrum be put on hold till issues around the availability of 3G spectrum […]
The following is the quick summary of the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI)’s recommendations on auction of spectrum and licenses expiring next year. The Authority recommends that 1.2 MHz spectrum in 900 MHz band should be taken back from BSNL from all the LSAs where licences expire in 2015-16 except in Punjab. In lieu, […]
