Nokia Money in India acquired by Fino
In an all-cash deal, Fino India will acquire Nokia Money.
In an all-cash deal, Fino India will acquire Nokia Money.
Nokia might not be doing well as of now but given their three services around location, mobile commerce and coupons, the OEM can make a come back with an ecosystem of services around mobile for its customers.
In exchange for mobile presence in India, RIM, Nokia and Apple have allegedly provided backdoor access for the Indian intelligence to spy on communication.
Capgemini and Microsoft have come together to deploy Windows Azure based solutions in 22 countries and setup a dedicated Center of Excellence in Mumbai.
I’m one of the several million frustrated Indian citizens, angry at the government for their lack of effort and at the companies who come up with newer ways of providing us with service that only gets worse. There are specific examples that make me believe that the problem has a lot to do with the wrong people at the jobs, either that or they simply lack the willingness to improve things in India.
Nokia will be exiting the service in India, issue refunds, and hand over the service to their partner banks (YES and Union Bank).
tl;dr: "No comment. But we don't provide backdoor access." --Apple & Nokia.
The Security and Exchange Board of India and some other government sites have been defaced by hackers from Bangladesh, while Microsoft India's web store has been attacked by hackers from China.
Microsoft's Zune marketplace, the app store for Windows Phone 7 is now available in India. With the marketplace ready, Microsoft should be announcing the devices officially in India soon.
Nokia India is working on a location based recommendation service for places near you. The feature is called Search and will compete with other similar services like Yelp and Foursquare.