Sale 2023

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  Chatbot Vs National Security: Why China's DeepSeek Is Raising Concerns Across Nations

  DeepSeek says it uses less-advanced H800 chips -- permitted for sale to China until 2023 under US export controls -- to power its large learning model.

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  Apple Reportedly Enters List of Top Five Smartphone Brands in India for the First Time

  Apple has reportedly entered India's top five smartphone brands for the first time since launching iPhones in the country. The release of the iPhone 16 series last year, along with the growing popularity of the iPhone 15 and iPhone 13, and aggressive trade-in offers, have boosted Apple's sales in India.

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  Nothing Said to Raise Funding, Crosses $1 Billion in Lifetime Sales

  Nothing is seeking to raise at least $100 million in funding to expand its operations, according to people with knowledge of the matter. The startup is run by Carl Pei, one of the creators of OnePlus, a popular China-based phone maker.

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  Top Deals on Smartwatches, Fitness Trackers During Amazon Great Republic Day Sale 2025

  Amazon Great Republic Day Sale 2025 began earlier this week, offering discounts on consumer tech and electronics. Deals on wearables, including smartwatches and fitness trackers from brands like Apple, Samsung, Garmin, Amazfit, Redmi, and OnePlus, are available. You can use credit card and EMI offers to further reduce your purchase costs.

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  SEBI Warns Ola Electric for Disclosure Lapses

  SEBI has issued a warning to Ola Electric for not providing "equal and timely access" to its investors of information about a planned store expansion.

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  NXP Semiconductors Could Make Upto 10 Percent Revenue from India by 2030, Executive Says

  NXP Semiconductors could generate between eight percent and 10 percent of its revenue from India over the next three to five years. India's growing automotive and industrial sectors are expected to boost the company's sales in the region, NXP India head Hitesh Garg said on the sidelines of an industry event in the tech hub of Bengaluru.

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  OnePlus Open at Under Rs. 1 Lakh on Amazon Is a Deal Worth Checking Out

  OnePlus Open was launched in India in 2023 as the company’s first-ever foldable smartphone. While its launch price was North of Rs. 1 lakh, Amazon India has rolled out exciting offers on the handset, enabling buyers to purchase it at a price below the aforementioned amount. With its offer, the e-commerce giant offers customers an avenue to purcha...

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  Apple's Affordable Vision Pro Delayed Beyond 2027, to Get an M5 Upgrade Next Year: Ming-Chi Kuo

  Apple has been rumoured to unveil an affordable version of the Vision Pro mixed reality headset sometime next year. Now, reputed Apple analyst Ming-Chi Kuo has suggested that Apple has postponed its plans to unveil the budget Vision Pro successor beyond 2027. The Cupertino, California-based company is instead said to be planning to refresh the Visi...

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  iPhone 16 Sales Soar 20 Percent in China Debut as Demand Returns

  Apple’s newest iPhones in China are up 20 percent in their first three weeks compared with 2023’s model. As pointed out by Counterpoint Research, Consumers continue to shift to the pricier models, and sales of the top-end Pro and Pro Max models gained 44 percent compared with last year’s equivalents.

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  Sony Pulse Explore Wireless Earbuds, Elite Wireless Headset With Planar Magnetic Drivers Launched in India

  Sony launched the Pulse Explore wireless earbuds and the Pulse Elite wireless headset in India on Tuesday. The earphones, which are geared towards gaming audio, were first announced at PlayStation Showcase in May 2023, and were initially launched in the US.

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  Square Enix Wants to Release Final Fantasy 16 on Xbox After PC Port

  Final Fantasy XVI released exclusively on the PS5 in 2023, and the game finally made it to PC last month. The action-RPG is still not available on Xbox, with no confirmed launch plans on Microsoft’s console. Now, publisher Square Enix has provided an update over Final Fantasy 16’s potential release on Xbox Series S/X.

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  Karnataka Plans Tax Waivers for Hybrid Cars, Incentives for EVs

  Karnataka plans to cut levies and offer financial incentives to companies in the clean mobility sector, including a steep tax cut for hybrid cars. The move could make the state, home to the tech hub of Bengaluru, the second after northern Uttar Pradesh to provide tax breaks to hybrid cars, for which Toyota has lobbied New Delhi.

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  Future Apple Vision Pro Models May Come With Lenses That Can Be Tuned for Vision Correction

  Apple Vision Pro debuted at the Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC) 2023 as the company’s first-ever mixed reality (MR) headset. However, its sales haven’t been what the Cupertino-based tech giant may have been expecting. However, that seems to have had little effect on Apple’s ambitions, as evident by a newly filed patent by the company f...

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  Smartphone Shipments in India Grew 7 Percent YoY in H1 2024: IDC Report

  Smartphone shipments in India grew 7.2 percent year-over-year (YoY) in the first half (H1) of 2024 where 69 million units were shipped, according to a report by a market research firm. The second quarter (Q2) of the year saw 35 million smartphones being shipped, which was a 3.2 percent YoY rise over Q2 2023 shipments. The report added that the ...

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  Dell To Layoff Workers In Sales Team Reorganization With New AI-Focused Unit

  Dell previously announced a major workforce reduction in early 2023, shedding 13,000 jobs in that fiscal year.