{"id":18190,"date":"2018-10-12T17:23:12","date_gmt":"2018-10-12T17:23:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=18190"},"modified":"2018-10-12T17:23:12","modified_gmt":"2018-10-12T17:23:12","slug":"amazon-and-flipkart-spark-a-smartphone-gold-rush-in-india","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=18190","title":{"rendered":"Amazon and Flipkart spark a smartphone gold rush in India"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\"><cite class=\"el-editorial-source\">New Delhi  (CNN Business)<\/cite>The battle for India&#8217;s online shoppers has triggered<strong> <\/strong>a smartphone gold rush.<\/p>\n<div class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\">Flipkart and Amazon are leading an online sales bonanza that will see Indians buy smartphones worth over $1 billion in just five days, according to tech consultancy Counterpoint Research.<\/div>\n<div class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\">Bangalore-based Flipkart said it sold 1 million devices during the first hour of an online phone sale on Thursday that was part of its &#8220;Big Billion Days&#8221; shopping festival. By the end of the day, it had sold more than 3 million phones. <\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New Delhi (CNN Business)The battle for India&#8217;s online shoppers has triggered a smartphone gold rush.Flipkart and Amazon are leading an online sales bonanza that will see Indians buy smartphones worth over $1 billion in just five days, according to tech consultancy Counterpoint Research.Bangalore-based Flipkart said it sold 1 million devices during the first hour of&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":18191,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18190","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world_news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18190","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=18190"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18190\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/18191"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18190"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18190"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18190"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}