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After China, can Xiaomi rule the Indian market too?

It already sells 50,000 to 100,000 smartphones every week in the country; with a mega IPO lined up, it can up the ante

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Xiaomi executed a major coup in August 2013 when it hired Hugo Barra, one of Google's top Android executives, to be its global vice-president. He made it clear that Xiaomi's primary targets were not the affluent countries of the West, but "places like India, Russia, Indonesia, Latin A
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First Published: Mar 10 2015 | 8:57 PM IST

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