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India’s top 20 social media brands

By Sriram Vadlamani Sun, Feb 19, 2012 7:57PM UTC View Comments

Social media will become more mainstream as more and more Indians get online. The more they share, the greater the need for brands to track. Social media itself is still in its infancy, and the tools to track are in a neo-natal stage. Nielsen-McKinsey’s NM Incite has a tool to track social media. It has an...

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India: What Nokia needs to learn from Micromax

By Sriram Vadlamani Tue, Dec 20, 2011 11:55AM UTC View Comments

Nokia is staging a comeback in India. It is peppering Indian consumers with advertisements and is trying desperately to occupy their mind space. Nokia has unleashed new phones which are targeting the low-end of the market and the high-end of the market. Its Asha series phone are entry level dual SIM phones and its Lumia...

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BlackBerry continues to dominate in Indonesia – but for how long?

By Jon Russell Mon, Jul 25, 2011 11:30AM UTC View Comments

Android is often heralded as the mobile device operating system best placed to find mass popularity in developing regions like Asia thanks to the sheer level of support across the mobile phone industry, which gives the platform a wide range of devices to suit all budgets. While Android has established itself as the most popular...

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Nokia abandons Japan market

By AP News Wed, Jul 06, 2011 6:45PM UTC View Comments

A Nokia staff member shows off the new Nokia N9 phone on the sidelines of CommunicAsia 2011, an international communications and information technology exhibition and conference held on Tuesday, June 21, 2011 in Singapore. Pic:AP.

TOKYO (AP) — Nokia Corp., battered by the popularity of smartphones, is abandoning the Japanese market, after a brief foray with luxury cell phones costing as much as 20 million yen ($250,000). The Finnish handset maker is closing by the end of July its last store selling high-end Vertu cell phones in Ginza. Previously, it...

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Rumour: Apple to target Asia with Sept budget iPhone launch

By Jon Russell Tue, Jun 28, 2011 12:00PM UTC View Comments

The much-speculated launch of the new generation Apple iPhone may include a ‘budget’ (iPhone 4S) version of its current flagship device alongside a new fifth generation (iPhone 5) smartphone in September, according to a note from Deutsche Bank. The bank’s analyst, Chris Whitmore, believes that the speculated dual model launch is specifically targeted at growing...

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