BRITISH RETAILERS OBJECT TO POTENTIAL ONLINE SALES TAX

HIGHLIGHTS

• A new online sales tax proposed in British Parliament has irked the retail lobby group.
• Rishi Sunak wants a levy to protect high street shops from increasing competition.
• The British Retail Consortium says that the new tax will i...

RELIANCE: WORLD’S NEW SECOND MOST VALUABLE ENERGY COMPANY

After jumping to the 46th spot in the list of world’s most valuable companies thanks to its market capitalisation of more than Rs 14 lakh crore, Reliance Industries Limited has now displaced ExxonMobil to become the world’s second most valuable energy company. 
Few days ba...

AN ANTITRUST PANEL WILL RELEASE PROBE REPORTS ON AMERICA’S FOUR LARGEST TECH COMPANIES

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• An antitrust panel will release probe reports on America’s four largest tech companies.
• The antitrust committee has received 1.3 million documents from the teach companies.
• CEOs of Facebook Inc., Amazon, Googl...

APPLE AND AMAZON LOCAL OFFICES IN ITALY SEARCHED BY EU ANTITRUST AUTHORITIES

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• Apple and Amazon are being probed by the European Antitrust authorities 
• Local offices in Italy searched 

The EU anti-trust body has been tightening its noose around the American corporate Amazon and Apple Inc. The latest ...

AMAZON INTERESTED IN BUYING STAKE WORTH 9.9% IN RELIANCE RETAIL

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• Reliance Retail has not confirmed anything about its talks with Amazon 
• Amazon also declined any comment  

Global giant Amazon is eying a 9.9% stake in Reliance Retail, the largest Indian retail chain. According to a ...

KOREAN STOCKS HAS LESSER VALUE THAN AMAZON OR APPLE

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• South Korea is a center of the global supply chain for technology and electronics.
• The market capitalization of Apple Inc., Microsoft Corp., or Amazon.com Inc. each exceeds the combined capitalization of all...

WITH JioMart, RELIANCE SET TO BATTLE DIRECTLY WITH AMAZON AND WALMART

After witnessing some historic investments and making it to the list of world's top 10 richest people, Asia’s richest man is now looking forward to rule the e-commerce sector across the globe. With JioMart, Reliance is directly battling with Jeff Bezos’ Amazon and the biggest reta...

HERE IS HOW INDIA’S PUBLISHING SECTOR SURVIVED COVID-19 IMPACT

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• India’s book publishing sector is worth $8 billion and has successfully managed to sustain in the pandemic

• Arrival of audiobooks, podcasts along with e-book has enormously helped the book publishing sector

• Despite lockdown, the p...

NOSTALGIC NOKIA 5310 XPRESSMUSIC LAUNCHED IN INDIA

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• Nokia 5310 will available for purchase on Amazon.in and Nokia India website

• Priced at Rs 3,399, Nokia 5310 arrives in two colours and is built to deliver supreme quality musical experience

• After four weeks, Nokia 5310 will be available...

TCS AND IBM JOIN HANDS FOR ENTERPRISE TRANSFORMATION

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• This partnership between TCS and IBM is in line with TCS's mission towards helping enterprises that have adopted Business 4.0 journey

• TCS and IBM aim to co-create accelerators and other assets for enterprise transformation

• Indian I...

AMAZON’S US STORE TRIED TO SELL T-SHIRTS WITH GEORGE FLOYD’S FACE, HIS LAST WORDS & CHAUVIN’S FACE

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• The t-shirts on Amazon’s US stores tried to optimize on the George Floyd killing

• The t-shirts are now off the shelves

Opportunists will never lucrative chance go and this is precisely what earned Ama...

XIAOMI BRINGS IN MI NOTEBOOK 14, MI NOTEBOOK 14 HORIZON EDITION IN INDIA

The much awaited Mi Notebook 14 and Mi Notebook 14 Horizon Edition have officially been launched today by Xiaomi in the Indian market. These are the first laptops from Xiaomi in India. Both the Xiaomi Mi laptops are powered with 10th-generation Intel Core processors along with optional graphic ca...

AMAZON TO TEST ALL ITS WORKERS ONCE IN EVERY 2 WEEKS: WILL INVEST $4 MILLION

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• Amazon CEO’s commitment to getting every worker in Amazon tested is being planned and ramped up
• Investments into Amazon’s Covid response is in line too

When the pandemic forced shuttering down of businesses, online businesses ...

NEW LAW IN JAPAN SPELLS TOUGH REGULATIONS FOR TECH GIANTS

HIGHLIGHTS

• The new law from Japanese Parliament is meant to ensure transparency among tech giants.
• Now tech giants would have to face tougher regulations.
• E-Commerce giants would have to share information about their business practices to t...

OnePlus 8 SPECIAL LIMITED SALE IN INDIA IS LIVE NOW

Highlights

• The newly launched OnePlus 8 arrives in three variants

• OnePlus 8 6GB + 128GB variant is priced at Rs 41,999 and is available in Glacial Green

• OnePlus 8 Pro will be launched soon, though no specific date has been given by the company

RELIANCE’S JioMart: INDIA’S NEWEST ONLINE GROCERY SERVICE

Highlights

• Reliance’s JioMart is catering to Tier I and Tier II cities in the country

• All the products listed are directly sourced from the registered farmers and company aims to help them out of this pandemic

• JioMart will face competition ...

TOP10VPN REPORT: CHINESE AI FIRMS BLACKLISTED BY THE US HELPED BY US FIRMS LIKE GOOGLE & AMAZON

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• Many Chinese firms were blacklisted by the US way back in October 2019 are being provided services by US firms
• The report by Top10VPN names major players like Google, Amazon, Facebook, Twitter, Microsoft and many more.

In the wake of Chin...

‘AMAZON FOOD' THE NEWEST ONLINE FOOD DELIVERY SERVICE IN INDIA

Highlights

• Amazon India’s app is showing that the service is live in selected areas in the Bengaluru

• Amazon has partnered with Box8, Faasos, Mad Over Donuts, Paradise Biryani and Fresh Menu

• Amazon Food aims at contactless delivery from hygi...

ENTERTAINMENT INDUSTRY ALL SET TO LOSE $160 BILLION OVER 5 YEARS

According to the reports, numerous research firms have stated that the global entertainment sector will be losing estimated amount of $160 billion over the period of next five years courtesy of the COVID-19 pandemic.
The experts have already stated that the year 2020 and 2021 will bring in...

MICROSOFT EYES HEALTHCARE INDUSTRY WITH NEW CLOUD OFFERING

Highlights

• Microsoft Cloud for Healthcare is currently available to the customers in public preview with a free trial of six months

• Azure is competing with Amazon Web Services and Google Cloud

• Google Cloud is also targeting the healthcare sector ...