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COMPANY NEWS:  SonicWall, a global leader delivering Boundless Cybersecurity, today announced the Asia-Pacific and Japan (APJ) regional winners for the SonicWall Partner Awards for the fiscal year 2022. The award honours SonicWall’s top-performing distributors and partners that have made outstanding contributions to drive the company’s most successful year yet.

Supply constraints have kept the Indian smartphone market to just 2% growth in the first quarter of the year, the technology analyst firm Canalys reports, adding that 38.0 million smartphones were shipped.

A report accusing China of conducting attacks on India's power grid has been attributed to a cyber-security firm named Insikt Group, by the British website, The Register.

The PC market in India grew at 45% year-on-year in 2021, its fastest rate in a decade, with 18.6 million desktops, notebooks and tablets shipped.

Every year, on International Women's Day, there is a spate of articles about how good it is to have women in various professions and the extent of their contribution to various industries. The next day everything is back to normal: the men dominate the coverage.

Apple has underlined its dominance of the global mobile market despite being well behind its Android competitors in overall sales, grabbing seven of the 10 top spots for top-selling models in 2021.

Bharti Airtel, one of India’s communications solutions providers, and Google announced that they will partner on a long-term, multi-year agreement to accelerate the growth of India’s digital ecosystem. Together, they will work to bring best-in-class end-to-end products to serve customer needs, provide quality customer experience, and bring their expertise to solve problems of affordability, access, and digital inclusion.

The Indian smartphone market shipped 162 million units in 2021, a rise of 12% year-on-year, the technology analyst firm Canalys says, adding that there was a strong comeback in the third and fourth quarters after a tough start to the year.

The Twitter account of Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi was briefly taken over on the weekend and a message about bitcoin being distributed to the entire country posted on it.

COMPANY NEWS: Videonetics, world’s first AI & DL powered unified video computing platform (UVCP) development company, today announced that it has signed a distribution agreement with Inflow Technologies, one of the India’s largest distribution companies, providing value added distribution of electronic security products, IT, cyber security, unified communications and collaboration to name a few.

Indian retail outlet Future Retail has released details of dealings with global retail giant Amazon in a bid to break off a deal between the two companies.

Israeli-based agritech company SupPlant was deemed as one of the Best Inventions by Time magazine.

Local brands have grabbed three-quarters of the smartwatch market in India during the third quarter, with the three-month period recording the highest ever number of shipments.

India's second biggest retail outlet, Future Retail, has been asked to submit details of a deal with Amazon to the Enforcement Directorate, an Indian law enforcement agency.

Smartphone sales in China increased by 3% quarter-on-quarter in the third quarter of 2021 but this represented a drop of 9% year-on-year, the technology analyst firm Counterpoint Research says.

Smartphone shipments to India have fallen during the third quarter, by 5% year-on-year, to 47.5 million units, in keeping with the global trend, the technology analyst firm Canalys reports.

Online retail giant Amazon has been accused of misleading the government's Committee on the Judiciary about its business practices, in the wake of a Reuters report that the company was copying Indian products and manipulating search results to favour its own products over private Indian brands.

Online retail giant Amazon has been accused of copying Indian products and manipulating search results to favour its own products over private Indian brands, according to a Reuters investigation. Amazon has denied the claims.

Ninety-five percent of 80 million ransomware samples detected by VirusTotal, a Google-owned database where samples can be uploaded to see which anti-virus engines can detect them, were Windows-based executables or dynamic link libraries [DLLs], a study shows.

Apple and Google have come under scrutiny in Japan, with the country's Fair Trade Commission set to investigate whether the two companies are using their dominance of mobile operating systems to cut out competition.