India is the second-largest wearable market after China. At times, it has also been the largest smartwatch market. However, in Q2, wearable shipments in the country declined 10% year-on-year to 29.5 million units. The first half of the year, meanwhile, fell 4.7% to 55.1 million units, analyst firm IDC reported this week. Market analysts believe […]
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WhatsApp’s massive 500 million user in India has supercharged Meta’s AI ambitions. Meta CFO Susan Li said Wednesday that India is the largest market in terms of Meta AI usage, a notable milestone considering the product launched in India just a few months ago. Li said during Meta’s second-quarter earnings call that people have used
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Qualcomm Tuesday announced the Snapdragon 4s Gen 2. The entry-level chip aims to make 5G accessible to 2.8 billion smartphone users in price-sensitive markets, including India and Latin America. Manufacturers lately have struggled to attract feature phone buyers in India, the world’s second-biggest smartphone market, primarily due to a lack of 5G models in the
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Uber is rolling out concurrent rides in India, a feature that allows users to book up to three trips for any of their contacts, TechCrunch has exclusively learned and confirmed with the company. The concurrent rides feature is the latest example of Uber developing products that will capture more customers, including those who don’t have
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Bike-taxi startup Rapido has become the latest Indian startup to become a unicorn, or reach $1 billion in valuation. The eight-year-old firm has raised $120 million in a new funding round led by WestBridge Capital, according to a regulatory filing. The new capital, a Series E infusion, underscores Rapido’s growing prominence in India’s mobility sector
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Zapp Electric Vehicles wants to turn its London-based electric two-wheeler brand into a global EV company. And India will be one of its launchpads, TechCrunch has exclusively learned. The company will launch its first product — an urban electric two-wheeler called the i300 — in the UK as early as next month, followed by Thailand.
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Indian cryptocurrency exchange WazirX announced on Saturday a controversial plan to “socialize” the $230 million loss from its recent security breach among all its customers, a move that has sent shockwaves through the local crypto community. The Mumbai-based firm, which suspended all trading activities on its platform last week following the cyber attack that compromised
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Apple has reduced prices of its iPhone models in India by 3-4% following a cut in import duties in the South Asian market. The price cuts range from 300 rupees ($3.6) for models like the iPhone 13, 14 and 15, and to up to 6,000 rupees ($71.7) for the iPhone 15 Pro and Pro Max
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Google Maps is rolling out new features in India using AI to help drivers navigate easily through flyovers and narrow roads in the world’s most populous country, with enormous roads with obstructions and several flyovers to deal with traffic congestion. On Thursday, Google announced that it had built an AI model specifically for Indian roads
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India conglomerate Jio has partnered with Taiwanese fabless semiconductor giant MediaTek to supply the booming electric scooter market with digital dashboards. The partnership, which was announced Thursday at an industry event in New Delhi, will bring chips supplied by MediaTek and an Android-based operating system along with hardware developed by Jio to electric scooters in
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