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Intel, the world’s biggest semiconductor maker is reportedly planning to manufacture ARM based smartphone chips. The company has entered into a new licensing agreement with competitor ARM to produce ARM-based chips in Intel factories. The deal was announced at the Intel Developer Forum recently and will let Intel offer third-party semiconductor companies its most advanced 10-nanometer production lines for manufacturing the complex chips usually used in smartphones. Intel, which gets the majority of its revenue from making personal-computer processors, has missed the boat to larger and faster-growing phone market. Now Intel is...

Huawei, world’s third largest smartphone seller will commence its local manufacturing unit in India soon. The company hinted that it would roll out manufacturing plans in the country within a month. “Now we already have licences for manufacturing in place. In short term we will announce our local manufacturing plan…in one month,” PTI report quoted Peter Zhai, President for Huawei India Consumer Business Group as saying. “As international brand, we are interested in developing our India business at right time. It is going to be second largest mobile devices market after China....

India’s internet user base will touch 730 million by 2020, the latest report by Nasscom and Akamai Technologies has revealed. According to ‘The Future of Internet in India’ report, India, whose Internet user base is second largest after China, will remain the fastest growing market. Globally, the number of Internet users is expected to touch 4170 million by 2020. The growth of the Internet has successfully created a strong ecosystem for new businesses to tap into growing markets and create solutions to address their demands. Speaking at the launch, R...

Astrum Holdings, an IT periphery company, has revamped its brand by adding newer product segments giving wider basket of offerings to its partners and customers. The new additions to the Astrum range of products are Mobile accessories, Smart lifestyle products, IT Peripherals, cables for IT, Audio, Video, Mobile segment and LED lights. According to the company this brand revamping represents its future direction and celebrates its journey of the last four years in IT peripherals segment. “It’s been a fantastic journey, started off as just a peripherals company and revamping...

HostGator India has announced its support for ‘Make In India’ with the launch of ‘Host In India,’ an initiative for Indian businesses. Indian brands that are looking to establish their online presence can enhance their overall marketability through deploying Indian web hosting services powered by geo-based hosting from GPX- India’s leading tier IV datacentre for faster website loading time and 99.99 percent uptime guarantee. Through this initiative, HostGator India aims to drive adoption of local hosting solutions amongst web designers, developers, bloggers, startups, enterprise businesses, application hosts and ecommerce sites...

Firewall solution providers, Cisco and Fortinet have issued security advisories confirming that vulnerabilities exposed by the mysterious Shadow Brokers do exist and affect their products. Both companies have issued fixes addressing the exploits that were recently made public. According to the report published in ZD Net, a group calling itself the Shadow Brokers, claims to have stolen a set of hacking tools from a group dubbed the Equation Group, which researchers believe is an elite unit of the US intelligence agency. The Shadow Brokers described the tools as “cyber weapons” used...

Chinese E Commerce giant Alibaba is reportedly planning to acquire online marketplace ShopClues.com. The move is considered to be an attempt to overtake the established OLS players in the country such as Amazon and Flipkart. According to the TOIreport, Alibaba wants to merge the marketplace of Paytm, in which it has a stake, with the much bigger rival ShopClues. According to the report, the Gurgaon-based ShopClues numbers GIC of Singapore, Tiger Global, Nexus Venture Partners and Helion among its investors and has raised about $250 million till date. ShopClues is positioned...

Nihilent Technologies, a Pune based consulting and IT services solutions integrations company, announced the acquisition of ICRA Techno Analytics Ltd (ICTEAS) –) for USD 10 million to continue its expansion strategy. ICTEAS is a wholly owned subsidiary of the credit rating agency ICRA, a Moody’s investors service company. An agreement has been reached between the companies wherein Nihilent will acquire full ownership of ICTEAS. Read Also:Emerson Announces ‘Rain Gain’ Program For Partners ICTEAS is headquartered in Kolkata, with offices in California and Connecticut in the US, and has expertise in...

Global sales of smartphones to end users totaled 344 million units in the second quarter of 2016, a 4.3 per cent increase over the same period in 2015, according to Gartner, Inc. Overall sales of mobile phones contracted by 0.5 per cent with only five vendors from the top 10 showing growth. Among them were four Chinese manufacturers (Huawei, Oppo, Xiaomi and BBK Communication Equipment) and South Korea’s Samsung. “Demand for premium smartphones slowed in the second quarter of 2016 as consumers wait for new hardware launches in the second...