Having signed on US-based porn star of Indian origin Sunny Leone as its brand ambassador, Chaze on Thursday said “the upcoming Bollywood actress” would launch its mobile handsets with “mass appeal”. It even released a picture of Leone as if she were at a press event launching the phones since having her to do that [...]
Realty firm Unitech has sought about $150 million from Norway’s Telenor to sell its 32.7% stake in their telecom joint venture and end the bitter dispute between two partners, an executive with direct knowledge of the development told ET. Unitech is learnt to have made this proposal to the Company Law Board, after the quasi-judicial [...]
Telecom company Uninor, with active operations in only 13 of the 22 regions in the country, has surged ahead of incumbents and other players to record maximum customers growth in January, data complied by sector regulator Trai reveals. The telco, majority owned by Norway’s Telenor, had occupied the top slot in customer additions in November [...]
All Nokia India employees will be out, assisting retailers across the country in showcasing the twin Lumia smartphones – the 800 and the 710, priced at Rs 29,000 and Rs 19,000 – and gauging customer reactions. Nokia, along with the operating-system maker Microsoft, has trained about 14,000 employees on the specifics of what its CEO [...]
Telenor will look at inducting another partner for its Indian operations, if its existing JV partner Unitech \’does not meet its obligations\’ and participate in the upcoming.`8,200-crore rights issue, the Norwegian mobile phone company\’s group CEO Fredrik Baksaas said. In an interaction with ET, Baksaas said that Unitech was bound to meet its part of [...]
Samsung has announced four new handsets in its Galaxy series running Android 2.3 Gingerbread. The company has simplified the nomenclature of its Galaxy series which usually creates confusion among its potential users. As per the new naming strategy, the upcoming Samsung Galaxy series handsets will carry the names: Super Smart (S), Royal/Refined (R), Wonder (W), [...]
With Sachin Tendulkar planning to quit after this World Cup, the bar is set much higher for the Indian players. Team India stands as one of the favorites alongside a formidable Sri Lanka, a strong South Africa, T20 Champions England and the reigning ODI champions Australia. So here at Cric City we have done a [...]
Ferrari has decided to enter India and should officially launch a range of their models this year. The Prancing Horse has chosen to partner up with the Shreyans Group which deals in high-end luxury goods, to establish its dealership network in India and should begin operation in April. Shreyans already has experience in selling super [...]
Harley-Davidson will start assembling select models in India, making them about 20-25 % cheaper, in a bid to crack the booming Indian premium bike market dominated by Japanese brands. The upcoming facility at Bawal in Haryana will become operational in the first half of 2011 with an initial capacity to assemble 200 bikes per year, [...]
Indian IT services firm MindTree is getting ready to launch its own smartphone in U.S. by the second half of this fiscal year, according to a report by Reuters. The phones will use Google\’s Android platform and will support 3G networks as well. The company is already in talks with a major U.S. network for [...]
