IT & broadcasting majors eye Asia-Pacific markets through new launches
The Dollar Business Bureau More than 1,000 industry leaders and professionals gathered at CommunicAsia2015 Summit, BroacastAsia2015 International Conference and the Creative Content Production Conference to discuss latest ICT trends, fundamental shifts in broadcasting economics, and digital media challenges. Sony, Samsung, Dell and Panasonic, renowned brands for their consumer electronics announced major product launches aimed at the Asia Pacific markets at a infocomm technology and broadcasting industry event in Singapore. Panasonic, announced seven new business technology products and solutions at CommunicAsia and BroadcastAsia. These include the Toughpad FX-X1, a fully-rugged 5-inch tablet, the new AG-DVX200, the world’s first 4K integrated zoom lens camcorder and the world’s lightest 4K+ 3-Chip DLPTM Laser Projector alongside the latest in mobile surveillance technology, blu-ray data ...
Incentivise exports to increase demand for consumer electronics: FICCI
Jayarama Emani | The Dollar Business The Government has to develop the export base for creating the push for increasing manufacturing base to meet the new exports demand in the consumer electronics manufacturing segment, a policy recommendations document by FICCI and EY (Ernst & Young) said. The document also recommended expanding trade agreements with export attractive regions such as Africa and Bangladesh thus driving the government’s ‘Make in India’ agenda. Suggesting that the status of “deemed export” should be granted to products/components manufactured and sold in India, the report said that such a move will enable the benefits of drawback, advance authorization and refund of output excise duty paid by manufacturers by availing credit of input taxes paid on components ...
