New Delhi-based Bharti Airtel and Navi Mumbai headquartered Reliance Jio Infocomm (RJio) are in advanced stages of testing Voice over Wi-Fi (VoWi-Fi) services, a technology that keeps users connected even without a mobile signal. This move will enable telecom companies to take on over-the-top players such as Skype, WhatsApp, Hike, Facebook...
Ikea Expands Footprint in India
Swedish furniture and home furnishing retailer Ikea inaugurated its first store in India on August 9 in the southern city of Hyderabad and will soon have two more. The 400,000 square foot facility in Hyderabad has the biggest Ikea restaurant anywhere in the world, with seating for 1,000 people. In India,...
India's Reliance Defense Will Repair U.S. Navy Warships
Navi Mumbai based Reliance Infrastructure-controlled Reliance Naval and Engineering signed a master ship repair agreement with the U.S. Navy. In January this year, the Reliance Shipyard at Pipavav in the western state of Gujarat was qualified by the U.S. Navy to perform complex repair and alternation services for its Seventh...
India's Aakar Innovations Creates Compostable Sanitary Pads
Twelve percent of India's 300 million menstruating women use sanitary napkins during their menstrual cycle. One billion commercially produced disposable sanitary napkins made by companies such as Procter & Gamble and Johnson & Johnson end up in urban sewers, landfills, as well as in rural fields and water bodies in...
Dover Fueling Solutions Wins Another Order from BPCL
Austin, Texas-based Dover Fueling Solutions scored on two fronts in December 2017, in India: the company was awarded a fuel dispenser tender from state-owned Bharat Petroleum Corporation Limited (BPCL), India’s leading oil marketing company, and it announced the opening of a new factory in Navi Mumbai. The fuel dispenser order...
Cisco India Manages One-Third of Total Product Revenue
In an interview with the Times of India, Amit Phadnis, president engineering and India site leader of Cisco, discussed the progress the company's Globalization Center in Bangalore has made. Excerpts from the interaction: On the extent of innovation taking place at Cisco's R&D center in Bangalore Phadnis: We have developed...