Apple Inc (NASDAQ:AAPL) In Talks With Indian Government Over Numerous Exemptions

The stock of Apple Inc (NASDAQ:AAPL) closed at $153.39 after climbing 1.24% in yesterday’s trading session. This company has been seeking out a number of exemptions for setting up a unit to assemble iPhones. The Indian government has been closely looking into the matter. The top bureaucrat in the Department of Industrial Policy and Promotion, Ramesh Abhishek revealed this in a recent press conference.

Apple has gotten in touch with some top federal government officials with the hope of convincing them to implement a number of reforms in tax and policies. If things move as planned, the giant phone maker is optimistic that it will be able to build out its iPhone assembly work in the fast growing country.

The provider has been selling its wide range of products through the Indian resellers. Some time back, India decided to give one of the top Chinese smartphone makers the permission to set up its own single-brand retail stores.

A few years back, Apple almost lost its in business. It does not want to go back to that rut ever again and that best explains why it has since then remained a vibrant company. It has been pretty swift at grasping all the business growth opportunities that come its way .A lot of people will be closely watching to see how the Indian government reacts to the company’s request.

The company’s spokesperson in an interview said that their dream to move to India will present a number of challenges. According to him, the company has already developed ‘shock absorbers’ to guard itself against anything that might show up.

He added that it was a good thing that they had already tried their business in the country through the resellers. The company’s products were performing pretty well and that was one of the reasons behind it considering India an ideal place for the latest project.

The Indian government like any other government might take some time to think about the matter. That is because it will need to consider the impact of letting Apple exact its move among other reasons.

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Alphabet Inc (NASDAQ:GOOG), Waymo Planning To Unveil A Ride-Sharing Service

The stock of Alphabet Inc (NASDAQ:GOOG) closed at $951.68 losing 0.64% in yesterday’s trading session. Its Waymo segment has revealed that it might soon be unveiling a ride-sharing service. However, it will first need to master left turns.

Over a long period of time the self-driving vans have experienced difficulties when it comes to making left turns. At the moment, it is channeling much of its resources towards the resolution of the major software issues.

The provider remains positive that it will soon be able to present strong competition to rival Lyft and Uber. The Chrysler vans will be operating in Arizona, picking up and dropping passengers along the way.

The company has indicated that it will no longer be the “safety” driver monitoring the vans. On the contrary, these vans will be monitored remotely. During those instances when there is no green arrow for left turns, a number of safety issues usually end up stripping up the software found in the cars.

Efforts to improve the cars are already underway and in fact Waymo has come up with a blog demonstrating how simulations have been helping train its cars learn tricky turns. At certain critical corners, some flashing yellow arrows have been set up and they have been helping the vans turn left.

Waymo’s spokesperson opined, “Navigating this type of intersection can be tricky for humans and self-driving cars alike — drivers must carefully move into a five-lane intersection and then find a gap in oncoming traffic. Turning left too soon may cause a driving hazard for oncoming traffic.”

It goes without saying that it would be a matter of a very frustrated driver behind if it happens that the move is made when it already too late.

The spokesperson added that their cars had all it took to make turns in all sorts of intersections. Alphabet happens to be one of the top investors in Uber. However, it is a completely different case when it comes to its attitude towards Lyft. It is clear that it has always held back whenever it gets proposals to invest in it.

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Salesforce.com, inc (NYSE:CRM) Unveils An Impact Investment Fund Worth $50 Million

The stock of salesforce.com, inc (NYSE:CRM) closed at $95.36 gaining 1.51% in yesterday’s trading session. This company has today made an announcement regarding the Salesforce Impact Fund. It hopes that the funds will help much towards fueling the growth of a large number of companies. Salesforce technology is expected to play a central role towards addressing a wide array of challenges across workforce development, sustainability, equality and the social sector.

The EVP of Corporate Development working with Ventures opined, “With the new Salesforce Impact Fund, Salesforce Ventures is investing in companies that are not only creating innovative solutions for customers, but also improving the state of the world.”He went ahead to say that as a company they were happy with the fact that they had succeeded at broadening their focus on impact investing.

Salesforce is one of those companies which believe that with proper planning business can turn out to be remarkable and powerful platforms for sparking change. The provider recently expressed its undying commitment towards ensuring that it is able to serve the interests of all stakeholders. This takes into account all its customers, investors, employees, partners, the environment and the communities as well.

It also takes great pride in the fact that it is currently uniquely positioned and that is the reason why it is able to catalyze the growth of a lot of companies. That is especially in close consideration of those companies that have over the years focused on developing solutions and products targeted at uplifting society across important areas.

It goes without saying that indeed the the Salesforce Impact Fund will move quite a long towards helping drive positive social change. Most of the Salesforce customers are set to benefit from a wide range of unique capabilities that will be delivered by the company’s services.

Business challenges are inevitable in the everyday’s business operations. The provider has been through difficult times in the recent past. However, it has resorted to the right mechanisms every time and thus gotten itself from the ruts.

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Reasons Why There Might Be Fewer Free Articles On Alphabet Inc (NASDAQ:GOOG)

The stock of Alphabet Inc (NASDAQ:GOOG) closed at $953.27 losing 0.61% in yesterday’s trading session. Quite a large number of media companies have raised issues with this company outlining that it has over the years been doing a lot of activities targeted at infuriating them. The “First Click Free,” has been a controversial policy and it forwards the demand that the various publishers give certain number of articles for free to readers so that the articles appear high up in the search results of Google.

Evidently, Publishers have been seen as increasingly moving their products behind the subscription paywalls. That is in opposition to having them entirely rely on digital advertising for the generation of revenues. It goes without saying that indeed this particular policy is turning out to be increasingly troublesome.

For instance, the The Wall Street Journal halted its efforts of giving free tasters of its products at the start of this year. Google takes great pride in its over 90% global search engine market share. It is pretty obvious that such control counts for any publisher.

Richard Gingras , who is Google News chief made an announcement outlining that plans were underway to replace the Click Free with the latest policy called Flexible Sampling. It might be music to the ears of many publishers more so considering that they might reserve the right to set their own number of free monthly samples. The search giant has given its recommendation and it says 10 a month would probably be an idea number.

Gingras opined, “As a first step we’re taking advantage of our existing identity and payment technologies to help people subscribe on a publication’s website with a single click, and then seamlessly access that content anywhere.”

Most of the publishers agree to the fact that giving people access to some free content has a role to play towards getting them to buy the product. Google has given a promise saying that it is willing to collaborate with publishers towards streamlining the process of getting people to subscribe to their articles.

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NVIDIA Corporation (NASDAQ:NVDA) Challenges Apple TV With The Addition Of Google Assistant

The stock of NVIDIA Corporation (NASDAQ:NVDA) closed at $178.77 gaining 1.76% in yesterday’s trading session. This company has over the years remained much aware of the competition posed to it by Apple Inc (NASDAQ:AAPL).

It has recently been doing all within its means to ensure that it beefs up its offering and positioning. It is looking forward to posing strong competition to Apple TV. It sees the addition of Google’s virtual assistant as a major step forward towards ensuring that it upholds its relevance in the market.

The Google Assistant will be added via a hands-free voice control to the company’s streaming box. This together with other features such as the smart-home support will move quite a long way towards helping the provider compete favorably with Apple. The competitor has over a long period of time maintained its position as one of the top providers for streaming media devices. Apple provides capabilities requiring the users to purchase AI speakers in most of the systems.

Using the new Google Assistant-enabled Shield is pretty easy. Users are able to do a number of things including fast-forwarding and requesting Google to mine its databases in a bid to obtain the required information regarding the current running programming.

Google virtual assistant performs a wide range of operations such as checking calendars, shopping on Google’s store as well as ordering ride hailing services. Most probably, the answers in line with Google’s assistant are expected to appear visually on the TV in varying formats. That will be dictated by the requested information and the question as well. The various users will be in a position to command their TVs to display all the slideshows and the display photos they might need from Alphabet Inc (NASDAQ:GOOG).

A top executive working with Google opined, “Google will also offer Shield owners a three-month free trial of its YouTube Red offering, which includes ad-free playback.”

The announcement by NVIDIA has come just a day after Amazon, which happens to be an e-commerce powerhouse launched a number of new Echo devices with major capabilities in controlling smart homes.

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