Emerging Markets Will Lead Smartphone Growth Next Year

Smartphone makers would be wise to concentrate their efforts on developing nations in the future, according to a new report showing that emerging markets will overtake wealthier countries in technology growth by value next year.

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Daimler to Use India as Source of Trucks for Emerging Markets

Daimler AG is targeting emerging markets with an unusual weapon: a line of stripped-down trucks it produces not in Germany, but in India.  Daimler is the world's largest truck maker by sales, with dominant positions in the Americas and Europe. But the German company faces growing competition from Chinese manufacturers, who are using their leading positions in China, the world's biggest commercial-vehicle market, to expand in emerging economies.

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Google Unveils $105 Smartphone for Emerging Markets

 

Google on Monday unveiled a new line of low-cost smartphones in New Delhi, hoping to persuade more people in India and other emerging markets to upgrade their handsets.  The new phones will cost around $105 and will be the first to use Google's Android One platform, which was designed to give developing economy users a reliable and affordable way to get online.  "The pace at which users are adopting the Internet is unprecedented," Sundar Pichai, senior vice president at Google who oversees Android, told reporters in India's capital. "Almost all of this growth that is happening in India and the world is due to mobile (phones)."

 

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Five Ways to Save the World’s Rarest Species

Can you imagine a world without butterflies and pandas?  Soon, we might not have to. The number of monarch butterflies has dropped 97 percent since the mid-1990s. Only 1,600 pandas are left in the wild. Several other species are on the brink of extinction because of habitat loss, climate change, and other events caused by human activities.  But there’s hope. Thanks to the work of conservationists, species such as the lion-tailed macaque and the California condor have recovered. Sept. 4 is National Wildlife Day, so we celebrate five of the most innovative efforts to rescue the world’s imperiled animals.

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What It Takes To Be An Emerging Markets Investor

You took a trip to faraway lands and bought the T-shirts, but as a do-it-yourself investor, should you also invest in those emerging markets?  Probably not if you’re a novice. Unlike buying, say, an ETF based on a Canadian or U.S. index you know reasonably well, you really should know what you’re doing, the experts say.

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19 Tech Startups in Emerging Markets

Seedstars World just sent me a list of 19 emerging markets startups that have won its competitions around the world. The Geneva-based company holds competitions for startups; the competitions culminate in an innovation conference in February in Switzerland.  Seedstars World is affiliated with Seedstars, a venture firm. All the companies that make it through the global competitions — this year, there will probably be about 35 companies — and  receive an invitation to the conference, get exposure to European and U.S. financiers. The overall winner gets a $500,000 investment from Seedstars.

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