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Chinese mobile game firms witness overseas business expansion

Opportunity India Desk Aug 03, 2018 - 2 min read

China’s mobile game makers witnessed immense growth in overseas markets in the first half of this year with a steady surge in gamers online, an industry report showed Monday. During the half year period, revenue for mobile games on the iOS App Store and Google Play in overseas markets reached about 2.6 billion U.S. dollars ...

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MoMagic Technologies revamps services, to focus more on AI

Opportunity India Desk Aug 02, 2018 - 2 min read

The company that started with the idea of offering R&D driven software differentiation enhancement service to handset and phone manufacturers and aimed to bring in content driven value added offerings to the end user, in the earlier days of 2011, is today a recognized key partner for brands, OEMs, startups and Ad agencies for Digital ...

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Airtel broadband speeds up expansion to fight Reliance Jio's GigaFiber

Opportunity India Desk Jul 30, 2018 - 3 min read

Bharti Airtel, India’s largest telecom company by revenue, said it will increase the pace of expansion of its wired broadband service by four times this year as it responds to the launch of GigaFiber, the new pan-India fiber service from rival Reliance Jio. Speaking after announcing Airtel’s quarterly results, company officials said they would bring ...

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Altair Engg sets up design centre in Hubbali university

Opportunity India Desk Jul 26, 2018 - 1 min read

Altair Engineering India has partnered with KLE University to set up the Altair Design Innovation Center (ADIC) at KLE University's Hubbali campus. "Collaboration with Altair will help us expose our students to industry relevant technologies and tools," said Ashok Shettar, Vice-Chancellor, KLE Technological University. The objective is to develop and facilitate competency on commercial FEM ...

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H&M launches interactive mirrored stores in US

Opportunity India Desk Jul 23, 2018 - 1 min read

Swedish clothing brand H&M has introduced an interactive mirror with speech and face recognition features that kicks into gear automatically as a customer walks up to it. It has been developed by Microsoft. The mirror is programmed to take selfies if directed and interact with customers. “For starters, you can talk to it and it’ll ...

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Asus to expand 100 new stores by March, plans market share to grow by 7%

Opportunity India Desk Jul 19, 2018 - 1 min read

Taiwanese tech major Asus is planning to open 100 new exclusive stores in the country by March next year, and increase its market share in the personal computers space to 7 per cent, a top company executive said. This would take its total number of stores in the country to up to 200 by March, ...

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40,000 Kerala school classrooms turn hi-tech

Opportunity India Desk Jul 16, 2018 - 3 min read

Kerala schools are fast becoming digital with hi-tech classrooms equipped with advanced gadgets, including laptops and multi-media projectors, coming up in over 40,000 classrooms in the state. As part of the ambitious 'Hi-Tech school' project of the state government, the Kerala Infrastructure and Technology for Education (KITE) has enabled 40,083 classrooms in selected state-run and ...

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Reliance Jio promises to bring optical fibre to 1,100 towns across India

Opportunity India Desk Jul 09, 2018 - 2 min read

Reliance Industries has proposed to bring optical fibre to the home in 1,100 towns. This is good news that promises to unleash new creativity across urban India, creating new businesses, enhancing the quality and quantity of education and healthcare, and creating new possibilities in entertainment. At the same time, such a massive expansion of operations ...

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Netflix to disable all online reviews from August

Opportunity India Desk Jul 07, 2018 - 1 min read

Video streaming platform Netflix will discontinue a feature that allows users to read and write reviews of various movies and TV shows from August. The shutdown of the desktop-only feature is coming in stages. People will no longer be able to write their feedback on a show, and in mid-August, they will no longer be ...

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Xiaomi appoints ex Jabong executive Muralikrishnan B as India COO

Opportunity India Desk Jul 07, 2018 - 1 min read

Chinese smartphone maker Xiaomi has appointed former eBay India country manager Muralikrishnan B as its chief operating officer (COO) for India. Muralikrishnan has previously served as the COO of Flipkart-owned online fashion store Jabong for nearly two years. He's also worked as senior vice president of Myntra for five months, as per his LinkedIn profile. ...

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