The Apollo Tyres stock plummeted 20.87 per cent to Rs 72.80 in the late morning trade on Thursday on the BSE after the company announced that it will acquire the US-based Cooper Tire & Rubber Company in an all-cash transaction of around Rs 14,500 crore ($2.5 billion). A consortium of four banks — Morgan Stanley, Deutsche Bank, Goldman Sachs and Standard Chartered — will raise $2.5 billion of new debt to fund what is one of the largest overseas acquisitions by an Indian company.
Under the terms of the deal, which has been unanimously approved by the boards of directors of both companies, Cooper stockholders will [...]
We are in Singapore for the launch of the new HTC Windows Phone 8 Devices, including the Windows Phone 8X and the 8S alongside Android devices like the HTC One X Plus. We will get you cover by cover so stay tuned to iGyaan and expect updates on Twitter ( @iGyaan) and Facebook as they happen.
HTC Windows Phone 8X will Be HTC’s flagship running Windows Phone 8 operating system, which was officially released on the 29th of October. It features a completely new approach to Windows Phone 8 Devices with a new polycarbonate unibody design and a list of new bright colors. The HTC [...]
HTC has launched their new flagship phone, this time for Windows Phone 8, its called ironically the Windows Phone 8X. Remember the One X ? well this takes the same unibody shell and slaps it with a lot of colour, adds 4.3-inch 1280 x 720 Super LCD 2 display with Gorilla Glass 2 coating, dual-core 1.5GHz Snapdragon S4 processor buffered by 1GB RAM, 16GB of internal storage, WiFi a/b/g/n, NFC and an integrated 1,800mAh Li-ion battery. There’s also quadband radio support for GSM/GPRS/EDGE, HSPA/WCDMA (850, 900, 1900, 2100MHz) and, LTE for the US Version.
HTC sets itself apart from the crowd of Windows Phone 8 [...]
OneMobileRing got a hands-on with the Curve 9360 looks like an update to the existing curve lineup with the obvious addition of OS7. The trackpad seems to have a backlit setting / or is it a chrome bezel?
Either way looks like RIM is in for a major overhaul in its 9 Mobile phone Releases this year.
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RIM has got an exciting lineup of phones coming this year. The Curve “Apollo” however, may not be the very ‘exciting’ category. The still-unannounced smartphone popped up on Tinh te, with a Vietnamese tech showcasing the phone, it is practically impossible to understand a word he is saying (Hindi being native and all)
The new Curve :
11mm thick 800Mhz Marvell Tavor CPU MG-1 processor 480 x 360 screen.With a hardware prototype on display at Mobile World Congress 2011, phone manufacturing company Umeox has announced ‘Apollo’, the first solar-powered android smartphone. With few features but an expected price point below 100 USD, the phone is designed primarily for developing markets. the 3.2″ touch screen is backed with Android 2.3, and uses Dutch energy developer Intivation’s efficient sunboost technology for its solar panel.
One hour of full sunlight provides sixteen minutes of talk time, and the company estimates that approximately 2.5 hours of light exposure is sufficient for daily use. [...]
Apart from the revamped versions of the Blackberry curve for 2011 the Apollo(GSM) and Sedona (CDMA) the company is said to be working on a full touchscreen Curve, appropriately dubbed the Curve Touch. The device pictured above is said to be the Orlando , which looks like the Sedona/Apollo but has a touchscreen, instead of an regular lcd display.
Whether or not the above image is real or not, all we know is that there is an impressive lineup of devices coming from Blackberry this year.
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