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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...

In a constant effort to bring more value to its users and consumers, Zopper, India’s largest hyperlocal marketplace, has launched a three-day Lowest Price Challenge. During the campaign period, Zopper will list the lowest prices of consumer electronics on its mobile platform, sourced from local electronics stores. If users are able to find prices lower than those listed on Zopper, on top three e-commerce sites, they will be entitled to win double the difference of the amount in their wallets. The challenge is live from August 4th to August 6th...

India’s aerospace and defense electronics market is expected to be worth $70-72 billion by 2019 as the country rapidly modernizes its military by embracing new technologies. Nearly $58 billion of the electronics opportunity comes from platform — large systems that have electronic components built as a solution, according to the Defense Electronics and Systems Design Report released by Roland Berger in partnership with industry bodies Nasscom and India Electronics and Semiconductor Association (IESA). “India’s electronics market has been witnessing huge market in Consumer Electronics, Industrial, Communication, Strategic Electronics. Today, the size of...

In a move to make its Pages feature valuable for small businesses online, Facebook on Thursday 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. The Shop section provides businesses with a new way to prominently display the products they are selling on their Page. It allows people to easily discover, browse and make offers to purchase products through messaging from the businesses they care about, Facebook said in...

Chinese smartphone vendors are rapidly expanding their wings in the Indian smartphone market, making the way tough for the established brands such as Samsung, Micromax and Intex. 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, the Counterpoint Technology Market Research states. Apart from these three major brands, the Chinese smartphone brands, including Lenovo, expanded their share to 27 percent of the total smartphone market in the quarter ended June from 21 percent in...

Chinese smartphone maker ZTE is ready to hear your ideas for its upcoming crowdsourced smartphone which will be unveiled at the Consumer Electronic Show (CES) next year. Earlier this year, ZTE announced that it would be crowdsourcing suggestions for a new mobile device and taking a step further in that direction has launched a new website to collect and collate users’ ideas. “The company would be ‘crowdsourcing something entirely new, from start to finish,’ but that doesn’t mean, of course, that it won’t pick and choose that suggestions that best...

Bharti Airtel (“Airtel”), India’s largest telecommunications services provider, today announced two new postpaid plans under its ‘myPlan Infinity’ series, offering unlimited voice calls along with bundled 3G/4G data at just INR 1199. Airtel postpaid ‘myPlan Infinity’ combines unlimited voice calling with variable data benefits, giving customers the flexibility to choose from a wide range of plans. Under the new ‘Infinity’ plans, for INR 1199 customers will enjoy unlimited voice calling – local, STD, and on national roaming – along with 100 SMS per day, 1GB 3G/4G data and free subscription...

Ola today announced the launch of ‘We Care, We Share,’ a healthy living awareness campaign for its driver-partners in the city. The initiative is aimed at positively impacting the wellbeing of thousands of Ola driver-partners in the city, through periodic health check-ups and handy health supplies. The first leg of the campaign kick-started today, with 50 driver-partners and their family members receiving a health checkup from Sahyadri Hospital and a spa treatment from Four Fountains De-Stress Spa, at Sayaji Hotel in Wakad, free of cost. This half-day long event included...

Channel partners have welcomed the historic Goods and Services Tax (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. Partners said that GST would facilitate hassle free movement of goods and services across the region and benefit both dealers as well as end users. The much awaited GST bill finally got approval in the Rajya Sabha as the government pacified opposition’s...

Prudent Corporate Advisory services, an online mutual funds platforms for financial advisors announced the launch of Fundzbazar.com, an online guidance and distribution platform for investors looking to put their money into instruments mutual funds, FDs, bonds, etc. A wide network of 62 branches in 17 states with 8163 channel partners cater to more than 2,80,000 clients. The newly launched site is meant for end-to-end guidance on investing in various financial instruments along with providing their detailed tracking to the consumers. The aim has been to make investing quicker, more convenient,...