Apple Inc., has started the assembly of the iPhone 12 in India, via its partner Foxconn in Tamil Nadu, as the company ramps up manufacturing operations in the world’s second-biggest smartphone market. "We are proud to be starting production of iPhone 12 in India for our local customers," Apple said,...
Amazon Announces Manufacturing Line in India
Via Foxconn-owned Cloud Network Technology, an India-based subsidiary of the Taiwanese electronics giant, Amazon is poised to commence manufacturing in Chennai, India. The Chennai line will be capable of producing hundreds of thousands of devices every year, starting with the Fire TV line of streaming devices. Amit Agarwal, Amazon’s global...
India's Telcos to Install 57,000 Mobile Towers in Rural Areas
Ravi Shankar Prasad, India's minister for communications, said that telecom companies in the country planned to set up 57,559 towers for mobile services in the rural areas by 2020. "The reasons for not having mobile services in all villages include remote and tough terrain, areas diversely located with a scattered...
Ravi Shankar Prasad: Minister for Law, Communications, Electronics, India, 2019
Ravi Shankar Prasad was born on August 30, 1954 in Patna the capital city of the northern state of Bihar. He has post graduate degrees in Political Science as well as Law. In 1995, Prasad became a member of the National Executive Committee of the Bharatiya Janata Party. Later, he...
WhatsApp Partners with eTailers in India
With a 200 million plus user base that communicates in 10 Indian languages to generate 50 billion messages a day, Facebook-owned WhatsApp is turning toward businesses in India to monetize the platform. It has already partnered with travel portals MakeMyTrip and Goibibo, and is now planning to add Flipkart, utility...
Rolls-Royce to Increase R&D Headcount in India
Rolls-Royce plans to increase its workforce to three times its current number at its research and development center in Bangalore, India, by end of this year. Rolls-Royce Director Benjamin Robert Story and Rolls-Royce India President Kishore Jayaraman met Federal Minister for IT Ravi Shankar Prasad to express their interest in...