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31 Mar 2018

India

Reliance Jio offers Rs. 2,200 cashback on Nokia 1

HMD Global's Nokia 1 smartphone has been recently launched in India for Rs. 5,499.

CBI files preliminary inquiry against Chanda Kochhar's husband, Videocon's chairman

The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) has ordered a preliminary inquiry into the alleged nexus between Deepak Kochhar (ICICI Bank CEO Chanda Kochhar's husband) and Videocon's chairman Venugopal Dhoot.

31 Mar 2018

Idea Cellular

BSNL launches new prepaid plans starting from Rs. 118

Adding to its existing line of prepaid packs, state-owned BSNL has launched several new prepaid plans to take on the fierce competition from companies like Reliance Jio and Airtel in the Indian telecom market.

31 Mar 2018

India

Jio beats rivals, offers best 4G download speeds in India

According to a report by Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI), Reliance Jio has beaten all its rival 4G telecom operators in the country to record an average peak download speed of 21.3 Megabits per second (Mbps) on its network in January, 2018.

31 Mar 2018

South Korea

64,000 South Koreans sue Apple for damaging their iPhones

In South Korea's biggest class action lawsuit, 63,767 citizens of the country have sued Apple for damaging their iPhones.

30 Mar 2018

Mukesh Ambani

Jio Prime membership extended for 1 more year

Reliance Jio has today announced that customers who took Prime subscription at Rs. 99/year will be able to avail its benefits for another year, free of cost.

30 Mar 2018

Tesla Model S

Tesla recalls 123,000 Model S cars over faulty power steering

Tesla is voluntarily recalling 123,000 Model S cars over a power steering issue.

30 Mar 2018

Xiaomi

Redmi Note 5, Redmi 5 go on flash sale today

Chinese phone maker Xiaomi is hosting a flash sale for its Redmi Note 5, Redmi 5, and Redmi 5A smartphones today (March 30) at 12 pm IST.

30 Mar 2018

Delhi

I-T department names, shames 24 tax defaulters through newspaper ads

The income tax department on Thursday advertised in several national dailies a pan-India list of 24 defaulting individuals/companies who collectively owe it taxes worth Rs. 490 crore and have either reported inadequate assets or gone untraceable.

30 Mar 2018

India

Here's all you need to know about Air India sale

Initiating the disinvestment process for India's national carrier Air India (AI) on Wednesday, the government issued a preliminary information memorandum (PIM) offering to sell 76% of its stake in the Maharaja.

29 Mar 2018

ICICI Bank

ICICI's Chanda Kochhar, Videocon's Dhoot in nexus over Rs. 3,250cr-loan?

Another alleged banking scam has been unearthed, related to Chanda Kochhar led-ICICI and Venugopal Dhoot's Videocon.

28 Mar 2018

Jet Airways

Government calls for bids for 75% stake-sale in Air India

The government has called for bids for sale of 76% stake in Air India (AI), which has debts of Rs. 52,000cr.

28 Mar 2018

iOS

Apple and TRAI at loggerheads over development of DND app

The Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) and Apple have reached an impasse over the development of a government anti-spam mobile application called 'Do Not Disturb.'

28 Mar 2018

India

TPG-backed Manipal Hospitals acquires Fortis Healthcare, SRL Diagnostics

To mark one of the largest acquisition deal in the health space, Fortis Healthcare Ltd. has announced that its board has approved demerger of its hospitals business with TPG Capital-backed Manipal Hospitals, along with the sale of 20% stake in diagnostics chain SRL Ltd., in a Rs. 3,900-crore deal.

28 Mar 2018

India

I-T freezes Cognizant's bank accounts over Rs. 2,500cr tax evasion

The Income Tax (I-T) department has frozen some bank accounts of Cognizant Technology Solutions India P Ltd over alleged tax evasion to the tune of Rs. 2,500cr.

27 Mar 2018

India

Anand Mahindra proposes to fund an Indian alternative to Facebook

With the Cambridge Analytica-Facebook scandal now spiralling into India as a BJP-Congress political row, billionaire businessman Anand Mahindra took to Twitter to weigh in on his idea of creating an Indian alternative to social networking giant, Facebook.

27 Mar 2018

India

GST collection falls to Rs. 85,174 cr in February

GST collections slid for the second straight month to Rs. 85,174 crore in February as only 69% of the assessees filed returns.

27 Mar 2018

Foxconn

iPhone manufacturer Foxconn acquires Belkin for $866 million

Taiwanese electronics manufacturer Foxconn, best known for assembling Apple iPhones, has bought the California-based Belkin International for $866 million in cash.

27 Mar 2018

WhatsApp

WhatsApp, Tesla, Amazon are hiring: Everything you should know

The big tech companies of WhatsApp, Amazon, and Tesla, where professionals would kill to get a job, are hiring for various positions.

26 Mar 2018

Uber

Uber exits South-East Asia, selling its operations to rival Grab

After exiting China and Russia, Uber Inc. is now selling its South-East Asia operations including ride-share and food delivery business to regional rival Grab.

26 Mar 2018

India

Flipkart is reinventing its back-end technology by infusing Artificial Intelligence

For any successful business, and especially in an e-commerce space, back-end technologies must scale proportionally with the fast-growing demands.

26 Mar 2018

India

Google: 80 percent of Indian Internet users browse YouTube

Google-owned YouTube is now being accessed by 80 percent of Internet users, across all-age groups, in India. YouTube highlighted its growth over the last decade at "Brandcast 2018" event as the company celebrated its 10th anniversary in India.

All about PNB's plan to stake claim in Modi's company

In a bid to recover defrauded amounts going up to Rs. 13,000 crore, the Punjab National Bank (PNB) is looking to take part in the bankruptcy proceedings of Nirav Modi's firm, Firestar Diamonds. It had filed for insolvency in a New York court last month.

25 Mar 2018

Facebook

Mark Zuckerberg apologizes to Britons through full-page newspaper ads

Following the backlash over the Facebook-Cambridge Analytica scandal, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg has taken out full page adverts in British newspapers to apologize.

25 Mar 2018

Facebook

#DeleteFacebook: Mozilla, Sonos join the bandwagon

Mozilla has announced to temporarily distance itself from Facebook.

25 Mar 2018

India

Jio Prime subscription expires on March 31. What happens then?

Jio, launched in September'16, disrupted India's telecom sector by offering free data and unlimited voice calls over its VoLTE network.

25 Mar 2018

Rajasthan

Rajasthan is a major market for Zoomcar: CEO Greg Moran

Huge tourism opportunities in Rajasthan make the state one of the major markets for the growth of car and bicycle rental firm Zoomcar, CEO Greg Moran said.

24 Mar 2018

Larry Page

World's wealthiest-500 have lost $436 billion so far in 2018

The first two months of 2018 have been rather expensive for the 500 wealthiest people on planet Earth.

24 Mar 2018

Noida

This Indian start-up pays you for your used cigarette butts

If you are a smoker, collecting used cigarette butts might make you some money.

24 Mar 2018

India

Apple to have 1cr active iPhone users in India: Report

According to a report by market research firm CyberMedia Research (CMR), India will have over one crore active iPhone users in 2018.

24 Mar 2018

Facebook

#DeleteFacebook: Elon Musk deletes Facebook pages of Tesla, SpaceX

Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk has deleted both the companies' Facebook accounts after he responded to WhatsApp co-founder Brian Acton's tweet urging people to support the #deletefacebook movement.

24 Mar 2018

India

WhatsApp is hiring in India: Everything you need to know

Popular instant messaging app WhatsApp is looking for someone to lead its communications in India. The job is based out of Gurugram or New Delhi.

23 Mar 2018

India

JioMusic integrates with Saavn, combined entity worth a billion dollar

In an unexpected move, Reliance has announced that it will integrate its music-streaming service, JioMusic with Saavn.

Hyderabad firm under scanner, bank-fraud worth Rs.23,500cr uncovered in 2018

Yet another bank fraud has emerged, the third case to be reported in five days. The CBI has now registered a case against Hyderabad-based Totem Infrastructure Ltd for duping lenders of Rs. 1,394.43cr.

23 Mar 2018

Bharti Airtel

Airtel introduces VoLTE Beta program, offers free data to testers

After having rolled out VoLTE Beta program in the states of West Bengal, Odisha, Assam, Kerala, Bihar, Punjab and Andhra Pradesh, Airtel is now inviting users from these states to test the company's network.

23 Mar 2018

Bharti Airtel

You can earn upto Rs. 50,000/month from Reliance-Jio. Here's how!

Reliance Jio took the telecom sector by storm when it launched in 2016, starting a price war.

22 Mar 2018

Twitter

Google, Facebook, Twitter's top security execs to leave their companies

In a rather interesting turn of events, top security executives at tech giants Google, Facebook, and Twitter have decided to leave their respective organizations in the last three days.

22 Mar 2018

Elon Musk

After Tesla shareholders' approval, Musk could earn $50bn in 10-years

Tesla shareholders have approved an "audacious" compensation plan for CEO Elon Musk, worth $2.6bn at current prices, but which can go to $50bn in 10 years.

22 Mar 2018

Facebook

Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg finally speaks up on Cambridge Analytica scandal

After five days of collective outrage from the public and lawmakers alike over Facebook's blatant disregard for data privacy and security, CEO Mark Zuckerberg has finally broken his silence on the Cambridge Analytica scandal.

21 Mar 2018

Facebook

Shop while socializing! Instagram Shopping launched in eight new countries

Exactly one-year ago, on March 21, Instagram had rolled out its Shopping feature in the US after initial testing in 2016.