Monday, 28 September 2020

Three top Apple suppliers to commit $900 million to India smartphone incentive plan, say sources

India's new $6.65 billion production-linked incentive (PLI) scheme offers companies cash incentives on any increase in sales of locally-made smartphones over the next five years, compared with 2019-20 levels

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Like US and China, India must ensure that foreign tech companies here are locally owned

India could learn from both countries, requiring that Facebook India be sold to one of India’s tech tycoons. This would be one step to ensuring that all data be kept locally and tightly protected, and that the algorithms that determine the information that users will receive – which, after all, influences their behaviour -- truly reflect India’s culture and values.

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ITI will be able to produce 4G, 5G equipment in a few months: Tech Mahindra

The country's potential to produce talent and software at large scale, coupled with geo-political scenario with China, presents a wonderful opportunity for India to indigenise technologies, Tech Mahindra network services CEO Manish Vyas told PTI.

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Sunday, 27 September 2020

Samsung may log $54.5bn in sales, to sell 80mn Galaxy phones in Q3

Samsung was projected to log $54.5 billion in sales in the July-September period, up 3.1 percent from a year earlier, while operating profit was estimated to surge 33.7 per cent (year-on-year) to $8.8 billion over the period, according to Yonhap Infomax, the financial news arm of Yonhap News Agency.

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Free Google Meet version to limit meetings to 60 mins from Sep 30

"If this changes, we'll be sure to let you know." From September 30, access to advanced features for G Suite and G Suite for Education customers, including allowing meetings of up to 250 participants, live-streams of up to 100,000 people within a single domain, and the ability to save meeting recordings to Google Drive will also not be there.

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Federal judge postpones Trump ban on popular app TikTok even as ByteDance rushes to talk deals

The ruling followed an emergency hearing Sunday morning in which lawyers for TikTok argued that the administration's app-store ban would infringe on First Amendment rights and do irreparable harm to the business. Earlier this year, President Donald Trump declared that TikTok was a threat to national security and that it must either sell its U.S. operations to American companies or be barred from the country.

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Will Indian IT majors see Covid impact like Accenture did? There's one reason why they may not

Indian IT services peers of Accenture have faced challenges during the first quarter (April-June) due to delay or cancellation of certain projects in the wake of the Covid-19 pandemic. That said, Indian companies have comparatively less dependence on the segment that contributed majorly to the US giant's decline this quarter.

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