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The Dollar Business Bureau The government has levied a customs duty of 10% on the imports of static converter for cellular mobile phones such as USB cables. Until now, these goods were exempted from the purview of basic customs duty. The term 'static converter for cellular mobile phones' is used for phone charging cables that can be used for accessing and transferring handset data to a laptop, computer, tablet or TV. The Revenue Department, in a notification (no.67/2017-Customs, dated July 14, 2017), said, “The Central Government, on being satisfied that it is necessary in the public interest so to do, hereby amends that……exempt goods would include “static converters for automatic data processing machines and units thereof, and telecommunication apparatus, other than static converters ...

The Dollar Business Bureau  Andhra Pradesh will create about two lakh jobs in the field of electronics manufacturing and information technology (IT) sector in the coming two years, said the state’s IT minister Nara Lokesh. “In order to fulfil the target, the focus will be on manufacturing medical devices, in addition to the manufacturing of consumer durables and mobile phones” Lokesh, who is the son of Chief Minister N Chandrababu Naidu and holds the portfolio of Panchayati Raj said. He met Ravi Shankar Prasad, Union Minister for Information Technology on Wednesday and asked for his assistance in a variety of IT-related projects which are in the pipeline and have the possibility to create jobs. “The Union minister assured us help as Andhra Pradesh is growing fast in both the ...

PTI Microsoft's India-born chief Satya Nadella on Wednesday attempted to allay concerns over the increasing use of technology in public life and said building trust was crucial to its utilisation as a tool to "empower" people. Nadella, the chief executive officer of Microsoft, also urged software developers to use technology to bring in "more and more people" within the global technological network. "Building trust in technology is crucial... Ensure that there is more trust in technology each day. We have to capture the essence of the timeless value," Nadella told the annual Microsoft developer's conference 'Build 2017' here. His remarks gain significance amid concerns raised about the use of technology both in the United States and India. The ...

Interview by Manishika Miglani India has several domestic mobile brands which are trying to compete with the international companies flooding the handset market in the country. Zen Mobile is one such home-grown mobile manufacturer which is a pioneer in bringing affordable devices to the Indian shores while currently holding 4-5% market share in the feature phone segment. In an interview with The Dollar Business, Sanjay Kalirona, Chief Executive Officer, Zen Mobile, talks about the expansion plans of the company including its vision to start exporting and consolidating the 4G product portfolio. TDB: Zen Mobile currently has a 4-5% market share in feature phones in the Indian market. What is your growth forecast for 2017-18 in terms of expanding this share? Sanjay Kalirona (SK): We are growing at a fast ...

PTI The government wants iPhone maker Apple to consider a new manufacturing scheme offering duty benefits to set up its plants in the country. "Apple had asked for a set of concessions. For a period of 15 years all the components that Apple imports, they want them to be free of duty. We have a phased manufacturing programme (PMP) because we want more and more value addition to come to the country. We want them to understand how this PMP will work and how they can dove tail into that," Ministry of Electronics and IT Secretary Aruna Sundararajan told reporters on Saturday. She was speaking on the sidelines of the annual session of the Confederation of Indian Industry (CII). ...

The Dollar Business Bureau The Department of Telecom on Wednesday relaxed mobile phone importing norms and allowed shipments of cell phones without a panic button or emergency calling feature till February 28. “It has been decided by the competent authority that the import of mobile phone handsets without panic button/emergency call button feature prescribed as per ‘Panic Button and Global Positioning System Facility’ in all mobile phone handsets Rules 2016, shall be allowed till February 28, 2017 wef January 1, 2017,” DoT said in a statement. Last April, the government had mandated that all mobile phones must have a panic button installed from January 1, 2017. According to the order, pressing the panic button will connect the users to a single emergency ...

The Dollar Business Bureau In order to extend its offline distribution network in India, Xiaomi has tied-up with Innocomm and Just Buy Live. With this partnership, the phones of the Chinese company will be available in more than 5,000 offline stores all over India, the second biggest market for the company in the world after China. “Just Buy Live is one of the early E-distributors, enabling retailers, shopkeepers and big corporates to purchase directly from their platform via an e-commerce model,” the company said in a statement on Monday. The format ensures that the Chinese company reduces various distributors in between the network. On the other hand, Innocomm is the distributor arm of Foxconn, which gives much emphasis to the model of direct-to-retail distribution. ...

Sharath Chowdary  Sweden based proximity aware solution provider TerraNet Lund is targeting India to market its offline tethering app — Meshmedia. This proximal connectivity app will be officially launched in January 2017. Recently, the company completed a survey on the product and is now planning to deploy Meshmedia in the country, TerraNet India Managing Director Y R Rao told the Dollar Business Bureau.  As per the survey done by market research firm YouGov, there is a huge response in India for both premium and free version of Meshmedia. Meshmedia enables sharing of content freely to unlimited number of users without any internet connection. This unique feature has garnered tremendous interest in the market, to download or buy the app. “Around 2 billion people use ...