Electronics - consumer
Samsung puts Note 7 fiasco behind to focus on S8
29 Oct 2016
And now, Apple’s iPhone 7 allegedly catches fire in Australia
21 Oct 2016
Apple said it is investigating a claim that its iPhone 7 overheated, caught fire, and damaged a car in Australia
Samsung halts production and sale of Galaxy Note 7, asks users to switch off
12 Oct 2016
The move comes after recalling the device and replacing the faulty batteries were undermined as the replacement phones too started malfunctioning
Samsung relaunches Galaxy Note 7 in S Korea with safer batteries
03 Oct 2016
South Korean electronics giant Samsung has resolved the problem with exploding batteries and has relaunched its Galaxy Note 7 smart phone, after a worldwide recall involving millions of handsets
Apple releases iOS 10 for compatible devices
14 Sep 2016
Samsung halts production of Galaxy Note 7 to conduct quality checks
12 Sep 2016
Reports, meanwhile, hinted at possibility of airlines, rather than isolating Note 7s, may decide to ban all Samsung phones given the difficulty of differentiating between models
Samsung sells its printer business to HP for $1.05 billion
12 Sep 2016
The deal, the largest printer acquisition in HP’s history, will help the Silicon Valley company to "disrupt and reinvent" its $55 billion copier industry
DGCA prohibits Samsung Galaxy Note 7 aboard airlines
10 Sep 2016
The DGCA move follows warnings by aviation authorities in the US, Europe and Australia, after Samsung itself last week recalled 2.5 million of its waterproof, iris-scanning smart phones following reports of fires caused by faulty batteries
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The Rise and Rise of HDFC Bank
03 Jul 2023
HDFC, which surged ahead of global majors like HSBC Holdings Plc and Citigroup Inc and left Indian peers like State Bank of India and ICICI Bank in market capitalisation, now ranks fourth largest among the world’s most valuable banks, after JPMorgan Chase & Co, Industrial and Commercial Bank of China Ltd and Bank of America Corp
India’s Millet Revolution To Enrich Global Food Basket
02 Apr 2023
Millets, a healthier and cheaper substitute to wheat and rice, are indigenous to many parts of the world, especially in the semiarid tropics of Asia and Africa, and offers a big scope for expanding production and consumption in the foodgrain deficient African continent
Market predator Hindenburg preys on Adani stock
06 Mar 2023
Almost a month after the damning report of short-seller Hindenburg Research on the Adani Group that claimed that the seven stocks within the group were about 85 per cent overvalued, one of the group's stocks, Adani Total Gas, closed at Rs835 on the BSE, down nearly 79 per cent from its 24 January level, almost close to reaching that valuation
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