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Detailed stories on technology startups, business and economic current affairs.
Detailed stories on technology startups, business and economic current affairs.
The Chinese smartphone maker’s top executive in its second-largest market quietly left last year ahead of a government crackdown.
Last week, a news report by Reuters took many in India by surprise. Xiaomi global vice president Manu Jain, the news agency reported, had been summoned by the Enforcement Directorate in an investigation into foreign exchange compliances.
“The Enforcement Directorate has been probing the company since at least February, and in recent weeks asked Manu Kumar Jain, Xiaomi's former India managing director, to appear before its officers, the sources said,” the report added.
While the summons itself is surprising, what stood out for most in the industry was that Jain is now the former managing director of Xiaomi India. …
China’s expanding influence in the GCC region comes with its own set of opportunities—and constraints shaped by America’s influence in the Gulf.
The Department of Telecommunications’ directive that every smartphone come pre-installed with the app follows a familiar pattern of ‘optional’ tools that turn mandatory in practice.
A mix of favourable policies and high-rolling consumers in the Middle East is drawing a wide array of companies to set up shop in the region
