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Why Your Kitchen Sponge Might Be Making Everything Smell WorseYour kitchen sponge, a cleaning essential, harbors billions of bacteria. Research reveals these porous tools become microbial hotspots, bre...
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Microsoft plans $1 billion investment in Thailand: governmentMicrosoft plans to invest $1 billion in Thailand over the next two years in cloud services and AI, the Thai government said in a statem...
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Dongles drop out as 4G phones, public WiFi find a connect4G dongles, once popular for providing fast internet connectivity, are now becoming obsolete. The rise of 4G smartphones with WiFi hotspots...
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Essential supplies severely impacted in hotspotsWhile shops are completely closed in the hotspots, companies said even ecommerce deliveries have been stopped in most such areas. With auth...
12 Apr, 2020, 09.34 PM IST
Government working on staggered easing of lockdownAll the empowered groups constituted by the government are frantically attempting to build post-lockdown strategies and ‘unlockdown’ measur...
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Spice Hotspot ties up with e-commerce firm Rocking Deals for selling refurbished electronic gadgetsThis will also mark the entry of Spice Hotspot into the office automation and refurbished space.
23 Jan, 2019, 06.50 PM IST
Spice to now exit ‘Non-core’ cellphone retailing businessMohanty, who was part of Hotspot’s founding team and is also its chief financial officer, refused to divulge the name of the private equity...
25 Dec, 2017, 01.32 AM IST
Essar Group mulls selling stake in The Mobile Store to strategic investorThe Mobile Store has shut 400-odd stores in the past 18 months and several brands have stopped supplies to it due to outstanding payments.
26 Jan, 2017, 12.42 AM IST
Dubai’s Jumbo Electronics to say goodbye to IndiaJumbo, which has already informed its 145-odd staff in India to look for a change, will move out by March this year, shutting its 16 stores.
22 Jan, 2017, 11.10 PM IST
Mobile Store and UniverCell to deliver phones in 4 hours, offer buybacks and data transfersTo beat rivals such as Flipkart, they will also offer buybacks, data transfers and help online customers get their devices fully operationa...
01 Jun, 2015, 10.35 AM IST
Google brings Android Nation store to India to spice up its retail marketLike other such stores in Indonesia, Android Nation store will promote and sell Android smartphones and tablets across multiple brands.
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- HotSpot to spend Rs 200 crore on expansion
Spice Group's mobile retailing arm HotSpot will spend Rs 200 crore on acquisitions and expansion of its operations across the country.
17 May, 2009, 01.04 PM IST
- HotSpot to sport Spice brand soon
India’s second-largest mobile phone retail chain Spice Group’s HotSpot will soon go for a brand change.
02 May, 2009, 12.30 AM IST
- Spice buys Cellucom's India arm in share-swap deal
Cellucom will take 26% stake in Spice Group’s mobile retail venture HotSpot while Spice Corp will buy 100% shares in Cellucom.
02 Feb, 2009, 01.23 AM IST
- Corner stores next hot spot for mobiles
Mobile retailers like HotSpot and Mobile NXT have found new way to deal with competition. New iPhone I Porsche's new phone I Smart phones &...
26 Jul, 2008, 06.30 AM IST
- VSNL in Wi-Fi pact with NTT
Over the next six months, the company intends to open up its extensive Wi-Fi network to millions of customers of international telecom oper...
18 Oct, 2007, 09.00 PM IST