GST Amendments Evoke Positive Reactions From IT Channel
Channel partners have welcomed the historic GST Bill passed by the Rajya Sabha on Wednesday. Channel partners said that the bill, which proposes uniform taxation across the states, will bring ease of doing business and resolve various challenges in the current indirect tax landscape. Read More
Cyber War Is Real & We Are Preparing For It: Kiran Rijiju
The government of India has taken a very serious note of the growing incidence of cyber-attacks on various institutions in recent months. Union Minister of State for Home Affairs, Kiran Rijiju said that the government was taking several policy measures to curb cyber criminals and was ready to meet the threat. Read More
Local Language Email IDs Could Soon Be A Reality In India
In a crucial step towards promoting local content in order to connect maximum number of people to the world of internet, the government is in talks with the tech giants such as Google, Microsoft and Rediff.in to seek their cooperation in supporting email addresses in local languages. Read More
Facebook Rolls Out Services & Shop Features For SMBs
In a move to make its Pages feature valuable for small businesses online, Facebook has announced the launch of two new Page sections – Services and Shop – for emerging markets including in India where 57 percent of people utilize Facebook platform for their business. Read More
Chinese Smartphone Brands Make Strong Inroads In India
Chinese smartphone vendors are rapidly expanding their wings in India and making the way tough for the established brands such as Samsung, Micromax and Intex. According to the latest study, Oppo, Vivo and Gionee, together gained significant market share in the April-June quarter at the cost of incumbents on back of an aggressive retail and marketing strategy. Read More
Partner Enablement Is Key For VMware’s Channel Strategy
In order to gain the top spot in the EUC market, the Virtualization major VMware is extensively building a strong partner ecosystem around the business. To enable this, VMware has rolled out multiple channel programs to build capabilities of its partners. Read More
Xerox Depends On Partners For Indirect Business: Balaji Rajagopalan
Channel partners are a very important part of Xerox’s business and the company fully relied on the partners to get market feedback and customer expectations. Talking about the essence of Xerox’s channel policy, Balaji Rajagopalan, Channels Business, Xerox India said that the company’s channel strategy is focused on the inclusive growth of partners. Read More
UIDAI Extended Undue Favor Of INR 4.92 Cr To Wipro: CAG
CAG has reportedly charged the UIDAI, for extending undue favor to Wipro Ltd. CAG in its report claimed that UIDAI incurred a loss of INR 1.41 crore by not following the government policy of routing its advertisements through official agency DAVP. Read More
Data Battle Intensifies As Vodafone Cuts 4G & 3G Data Rates
The cut throat competition between major telecom players in the country has led to huge price cut in the data offers. Vodafone India on Monday slashed effective data rates of its 4G, 3G big internet packs for pre-paid customers offering upto 67 percent more benefits for the same price. Read More
New CIITA President Seeks Better Collaboration
K L Lalani, the newly elected president of Confederation of Indian IT Associations (CIITA), an association representing channel partners from Eastern region, sought better collaboration between association members to make the organization more effective. Read More