February 22, 2012

Business

All the news related to the "business" aspect of mobile phone, tablet industry and India are covered under this tag.

Pakistan Air Force Jumping Into Commercial Ventures – Making PACPAD Tablet!

Pakistan Airforce has added one more job profile besides protecting airspace and boundary of  its country – to manufacture Tablet on Android platform. Inside a high-security air force complex that builds jet fighters and weapons systems, Pakistan’s military is working on the latest addition to its sprawling commercial empire: a homegrown version of the iPad. It [...]

E-Commerce Portals On Consolidation Spree – Amazon Factor?

E Commerce In India

Amazon.com has given wake up call to Indian online portals to consolidate their worth for remaining competitive in lucrative online business. Amazon, the world’s largest online retailer, is also hastening the consolidation by its measured moves into the Indian e-commerce market, which is expected to grow to $25 billion by 2015 from $10 billion now. [...]

HTC To Re-Christen Quad-Core Smartphone – Report

HTC Logo

When chips of a company are down, every effort is made to remain in limelight and this is exactly HTC is planning to do. Due to its dwindling sales of handsets, Taiwan based HTC is expected to re-christen its forthcoming quad-core smartphone to the HTC One X, instead of the Endeavor or Edge being named [...]

Trouble Escalates For iPads In China As More Cities Halt Apple iPad Orders

Apple Inc

Despite appeal of Apple Inc., pending before High Court in China, retailers in more Chinese cities have been told by authorities to take the popular iPad tablet PCs off their shelves this week, media reports said on Thursday, due to a legal battle between a Chinese technology firm and Apple Inc over trademark issues. Two major shopping [...]

Tough Time Ahead For Apple iPhone’s? – Research Firm

Apple Inc

2011 can be called the year of Apple Inc., when US based technology company sold maximum numbers of iPhones and iPads. But whether this company can replicate their performance in 2012? No, say the research firm – Gartner. According to Gartner, Apple, which became the world’s largest smartphone vendor in the fourth quarter, will see [...]

Few Facts About GSMA Mobile World Congress, Barcelona [2012]

Mobile World Congress

With less than 14 days before GSMA Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, the numbers indicate that this will have the biggest and best mobile event ever! Following are some statistics: 28 – Conference Keynotes including the Mobile World Live Keynotes featuring William Clay Ford Jr. (Ford Motor Co.), Hans Vestberg (Ericsson), Eric Schmidt (Google) and [...]

Sprint Nextel Corp. Is Looser For Selling Costly iPhone In US

Sprint Nextel

I used to wonder why Indian service providers do not sell expensive devices like iPhone etc. on one or two years service contracts like their counterparts in US or Europe until I came across a report which state that Sprint Next Corp. was the latest major service provider to struggle under the weight of providing the [...]

Nokia To Shift Its Production Operations To Asia – 4000 Employees To Lose Jobs

Nokia Redifined

Nokia has today announced planned changes at its factories in Komarom, Hungary, Reynosa, Mexico and Salo, Finland. The measures follow a review of smartphone manufacturing operations that Nokia announced last September and aim to increase the company’s competitiveness in the diverse global mobile device market. These three factories are planned to focus on smartphone product [...]

Fundamentals Of Partnerships- Enter Into Partnership With Even & Reputed Persons

Fighting Business Partners

Dear Readers, I want to share one incident with you and I do not want anybody to suffer the way my dear friend- Gopal ( name changed)- is suffering. Gopal entered reluctantly into a partnership with his co-brother two years ago to sell certain products. At that time, Gopal’s existing business was slightly down and [...]

PC Gets Relief From CBI Court – Congress Feels Happy! Rather They Should Be Ashamed!

P Chidambram Escapes

Judge OP Saini of CBI court dismissed appeal against P.Chindaram as he was not involved in criminal activities in awarding 2G Licences when he was Finance Minister and A Raja was telecom minister, who is behind bars. Congress party is rejoicing on this judgement but they have forgotten that petitioner of this case – Subramanyan [...]