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Inflation in driver’s seat likely to stall discretionary spendWhile consumer demand had started improving over the past four months after a prolonged slowdown, rising crude oil prices, supply disruptio...
Apple posts strong growth in India despite global smartphone slowdown: CEO Tim CookApple CEO Tim Cook expressed excitement about India's market. The company achieved strong double-digit growth in India for iPhones, iPadApp...
Trip down memory lane: Module price rise could moderate in H2The new projections counter previous estimates about memory prices continuing to peak every quarter for consumer electronics brands. They f...
Brands focus on leaner product lines amid surging input costsCompanies are reducing product choices to manage rising costs. This strategy focuses on popular, profitable items. Smartphone and TV makers...
Smartphone sales fall 9% on rising memory pricesThe research firm said rising memory costs have led Android handset brands to raise prices on existing models, while new products are also ...
Chips are down for handset companies amid AI boomSmartphone companies are grappling with a shortage of essential parts like memory chips. This is driven by booming demand for AI hardware, ...
Handset companies hike prices of mobile phones on high GST“The rupee has depreciated significantly against the US dollar. Since we maintain less than 5% profit margin for all our hardware products,...
Budget 2015: Mobile phones prices set to riseLava International, which is among the top four handset companies in India by market share, said that the change in duty structure will lea...
Budget 2013 impact: Duty hike may hit consumer shift towards smartphones, says SamsungSamsung said the Budget proposal to increase excise duty on handsets of above Rs 2,000 will push up prices.
Budget 2013: Consumers in India to pay more for mobile handsets priced above Rs 2000Consumers in India will have to pay more for mobile handsets priced above Rs 2000, as companies will be forced to raise prices to offset th...
- Indian handset market grows amid slowdown
According to Gartner, the Indian smartphone market grew by 17%, although, feature phones still dominated the 226 million Indian handset ind...
- Falling Rupee: Computer hardware, mobile phones get dearer
he rupee depreciation is spelling increased troubles for computer hardware manufacturers and mobile handset makers as most of them are opti...
Costly iPhones make Apple taste rancid in IndiaApple has raised price of iPhone 4 by 10% to Rs 37,900. Yet, Indian customers are now getting an 8GB handset, instead of 16 GB handset.
- Nokia, Samsung, LG cut mobile handset prices to check grey market
Vendors have come together to reduce prices by up to 8% to stop customers flocking to grey markets due to higher VAT. Security test of tele...
- Delhi's snazzy mobile retailers reeling under leap in VAT
The hike in value added tax (VAT) on mobile handsets priced over Rs 10,000 from April 1 in Delhi is giving nightmares to large mobile phone...
- Nokia may raise handset price; launches low-cost phones
Nokia said that it is looking at the possibility of hiking the prices of its products globally given the rising input costs even, as it lau...
- Diwali may spark off handset price hike
Handset marketers Spice, Meridian Mobile and HTC have confirmed will take a hike of up to 15% after Diwali.