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Infogain, a business and IT consulting firm, has named Sunil Bhatia as Chief Executive Officer effective July 1st, 2016. Bhatia has held the position of CEO Designate at Infogain since the completion of Infogain’s acquisition of the IT assets of Blue Star Infotech Ltd. (BSIL) in January 2016. Founder and former CEO Kapil Nanda will remain an active part of the company as full-time Executive Chairman of Infogain’s board of directors. Read Also: Criteo Pursues Further Growth With New Office and New Hire “It’s been a great honor to serve as...

India has large scale growth opportunities for the industry, but policy initiative remains a crucial factor for its success, believe experts. While speaking at ‘Digital Services Asia 2016’, earlier known as the VAS Asia, in New Delhi, A Robert Jerad Ravi, the Advisor (quality of services), Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) said, “Majority of apps which are based out of other countries are developed by Indians, either working out of India or stationed abroad. This process in itself is a business opportunity, which should be encouraged by the Government.”...

Smart phone manufacturer Xiaomi is exploring Direct-to-Retail (DTR) with a novel approach that cuts out middle men and lowers costs. “We broke our own records by selling phones only online. Xiaomi sold over a million units in the September 2015 quarter, and repeated the feat in the two subsequent quarters,” said Manu Kumar Jain, India Head of Xiaomi Technology India. Read Also :14.8 Million Xiaomi Phones Sold In Q1 2016 Xiaomi had become the fifth largest smartphone company, purely on the strength of its online presence. Currently, it is the...

Power management company Eaton has introduced its new advanced range of rack power distribution units (PDUs), ePDU G3, in India. Featuring Eaton’s third-generation (G3) technology, the ePDU G3 platform combines best-in-class efficiency and reliability with innovative technologies such as the new Eaton patented grip feature for International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC) connectors that make operations safer. Offering a variety of capabilities to fulfill IT requirements, the range of ePDU G3 models support a wide-array of applications ranging from small/medium businesses to enterprise data centers. In India, Eaton’s ePDU G3 range will...

Surpassing major smartphone brands, Chinese smartphone manufacturing company Vivo Mobile (Vivo) has become the world’s fifth largest smartphone manufacturer. According to the International Data Corporation’s (IDC) Q1 2016 Worldwide Quarterly Mobile Phone Tracker report, the brand shipped 14.3m units in the period — a year-on-year increase of 123.8 percent– achieving 4.3 percent of global market share. According to Vivo’s global vice president and chief marketing officer Alex Feng, “Vivo’s outstanding performance mainly depends upon its commitment to new product development and precise understanding of customer needs. We saw consumers’ needs...

The Rajasthan government has united with business-to-business (B2B) ecommerce firm Applicate IT Solutions to enable 35,000 e-mitra kiosks in the state for traders and retailers to procure products directly from manufacturers. The B2B e-commerce marketplace is increasingly getting crowded with big and mid-sized players.The state government launched e-mitra kiosks in 2011 to allow villagers to access government services such as licences and passport services. The kiosks are usually installed and run at shops or stores and in return traders earn a certain percentage as commission on the government fees paid...

India, undoubtedly has emerged as the next smartphone destination worldwide, but the real growth of smartphone business lies in the rapidly developing Tier 2 and Tier 3 cities and towns. Rapid adoption of smatphones and expanding internet reach in small cities and towns are set to spearhead the next wave of growth for the smartphone market. Acknowledging the next big growth market after Tier one cities, smartphone makers as well as E-Commerce players are spreading their network in smaller cities and towns. According to the latest report from IDC, 25 major...

With its vision to help make India a global hub of high-quality mobile developers, Google today launched the Android Skilling program in India that will aim to train two million mobile developers by unveiling a slew of initiatives to skill up, educate, and certify millions of students and developers in Android Development. Recognizing the need to provide an in-person training course targeted at students in universities, Google announced the launch of a specially designed instructor led training program on Android Fundamentals. This will be made available across public and private universities and...

Mobile applications bought on the Apple and Google platforms could get costlier as the government is planning to bring app purchase under the ambit of the ‘equalization levy.’ According to the report published in Economic Times, the government is looking to include Apps purchase under the levy by the end of December. The government is expected to issue guidelines by December, the report stated. An equalization levy of about 6 percent is currently applicable on online advertisements on multinationals registered outside India. The impact of the levy on app prices may...