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Vodafone India To Go Public Next Year. Plans $4B IPO
India’s leading telecom operator, Vodafone India has finally revealed that it’s planning to go public for $4 billion by next financial year.
As per the reports, Vodafone has appointed NM Rothschild for working on the IPO roadmap and…
Mozilla Decides To Ditch $25 Firefox Smartphone, To Focus on Quality, Rather Than Cost
Mozilla in 2013 decided to get their hands wet in the Smartphone OS market. After a number of collaborations with many manufacturers based out of Europe and other countries, Mozilla has now decided to go another way!
Mozilla had…
Gul Panag Backed MobieFit launches FirstRun Fitness Android App
Mobiefit, a fitness mobile app company which is backed by Gul Panag have launched their free app on Google Play store. Called FirstRun, the app is designed to make runners out of those who’ve never run before in their lives.
If you…
Blackberry Acquisition: Apple, Microsoft, Xiaomi & Lenovo Are In $7B Acquisition Race –…
Blackberry is back in demand, and be assured that this is not 2010.
As per reports coming in from various sources, companies such as Apple, Microsoft, Xiaomi, Huawei and Lenovo are making plans to acquire this company and the deal…
UC Browser, India’s Most Popular Mobile Browser, Accused Of Leaking User Data to Chinese Servers
UC Browser, which is right now India’s most widely used mobile browser (as per StatCounter) is accused of leaking user’s data to a Chinese server. Owned by Alibaba, UC Browser has more than 500 million users in China and India; and in…
DeitY Wants Iris Scanners On All Phones Sold In India. Does It Make Any Sense?
The Department of Electronics and IT (DeitY) in India now wants all mobile phones sold in India to have built-in iris scanners. DeitY is currently holding discussions with its stakeholders, post that it would force all brands selling…
Foxconn To Re-Enter India, Your Next iPhone May Be Manufactured in Maharashtra!
‘Designed in California’ read it somewhere? Yes, on the Apple product packages. Today, a immense news broke out that Maharashtra will be the first Indian state where Foxconn will be setting up it’s production factory for the Apple…
Huawei LiteOS: A 10KB Operating System To Power Internet Of Things
Internet of Things (IoT) is the future and Huawei is trying to become an integral part of this upcoming trend. With that in mind it has launched an operating system for connecting all devices via the Internet.
Huawei’s IoT OS- LiteOS…
Xiaomi Mi 4i Available For 12999 In India, Register Now!
The much talked about Xiaomi Mi 4i has been on sale for 3 weeks now. All the sales that have been conducted till now have been over in few seconds. You need to register first before making purchases at 2pm exclsuively on Flipkart.…
Micromax Partners With MoFirst For Local Language Smartphone OS & Apps
Leading Indian handset manufacturer Micromax has announced partnership with Mumbai based MoFirst solutions, the company that provides local language translation and transliteration services as well regional app store that has over 5000…
Soon, You Will Not Need ‘0’ or ‘+91’ Prefix To Dial STD Numbers!
It has always been a pain to prefix ‘0’ and ‘+91’ while dialing any STD number. But according to a new directive issued by the DoT this will be a thing of the past soon.
Many top telcos in India have already implemented this while…
Reliance Jio All Set To Change Indian Telecom By Introducing 4G Devices Costing Just $30!
Reliance Jio, led by Mukesh Ambani is all set to reenter the Indian telecom market, and this time, they have planned another mass inclusion scheme: 4G devices costing only $30 or Rs 1800-2000. As per reports coming in, talks are already…
Delhi Govt Orders ISPs To Block Ola, Uber & Other Taxi Apps; Threatens To Invoke Section 12 of…
Delhi Govt. has ordered all telecom companies and Internet Service Providers (ISPs) in Delhi to restrict and block the access of all taxi aggregator apps such as Uber, Ola and others. In an order released in the morning, it was…
Indian Mobile Subscriber Stats: 9.3M New, 970M Total & 862M Active [March 2015]
TRAI released their Telecom subscription report for the month of March 2015, and the upward growth of mobile subscribers continues – infact, it is now growing at much faster pace.
In the month of March 2015, a total of 9.31 million new…
How Much Do WhatsApp Calls Really Cost? Are They Cheap?
When WhatsApp launched free voice calling feature on their uber popular messaging client, there was suddenly a rush of people (including myself) saying that it will severely affect the traditional mobile voice call business. When you…
YU Yuphoria launched At Rs.6999, Fitness Band YU Fit at Rs.999
YU Televentures today held a launch event in New Delhi, India. At the event YU’s founder and CEO Rahul Sharma announced the company’s flagship device i.e. YU Yuphoria. The device has been buzzing for couple of weeks now, and has been…
HealthYu, A New Innovative Health Device That Measures ECG, Temp, BP & More
Rahul Sharma, Founder and CEO of Micromax today unveiled a transformational health device that could change the way we carry out routine medical tests. Called HEALTHYU, this device can carry out various medical tests including ECG…
Uber Rides Can Now Be Paid by Cash, A Global First For Uber!
For the first time ever, Uber has allowed cash mode of payment for availing their cab booking services. Cash payments have been started in Hyderabad as of now, and it is being expected that the option would be rolled out to other Indian…
Mobikwik Partners With MakeMyTrip, Cleartrip, Yatra.com and Goibibo For Travel Payments!
Online and Mobile Wallets are everywhere now – They are revolutionizing how we make online and mobile payments, be it for ecommerce purchases or for travel bookings or for movie ticket purchases. The users find wallet payments much more…
Vodafone Launches M-Pesa Wallet App For Paying Bills, Mobile Recharges
India’s second largest telecom company i.e. Vodafone India announced their new bill payment Smartphone wallet app – M-Pesa. The application has been launched across all the major Smartphone platforms which includes Android, iOS,…