The iPhone makers cornered a 70% share of the market's super-premium price band - phones priced above 45,000 rupees ($605)
Asia is the frontrunner in the NFTs craze with Central and Southeast Asia accounting for 35% of the $22 billion in global trade last year.
The app has been downloaded over 2.5m times this year but it can only be used in 10 cities currently, and people still like using Alipay and WeChat Pay for retail purchases
Singapore is popular for crypto companies due to its clear regulatory environment but authorities have also tried to shield the public from trading in digital tokens, saying it is very risky
Attacks targeted investment firms and centralised exchanges, and made use of phishing lures, code exploits, malware and social engineering
The deal includes retail banking and credit card businesses, but excludes the bank’s institutional businesses in all four countries
The crowd-sourced website, Tabelog, is operated by Tokyo-based Kakaku, and initially refused to disclose its algorithm
There is no global payment system that is strong enough to act as an alternative to SWIFT and enable Russia to evade sanctions
The Bitcoin mining ban in China last year had collapsed its crypto markets. Despite that, the country has reemerged as a major bitcoin mining hub, according to research by the UK's University of Cambridge.
The Chinese government is doubling down on incentives for innovation, which it believes to be the cornerstone of its future growth and international position.
Asia is the frontrunner in the NFTs craze with Central and Southeast Asia accounting for 35% of the $22 billion in global trade