Biz April 30, 2014 by Jatinder Singh Comments(0) Post a Comment Print | Reprint | | Email This | RSS Rate this item (0 votes)
Canada-based tablet manufacturer Datawind plans to increase its manpower in the country to go aggressive with its tablet offerings. Sources close to the developments revealed that the company is on a hiring spree and plans to hire around 100-125 people across various roles in key metros, according to industry sources. "Majority of the hiring is happening in the sales function where the company is recruiting talent to spearhead its sales pitches," according to the sources. Datawind, the former supplier of Government's Aakash tablet seems to be gearing up to tap into India's mushrooming low cost tablet market. (See: Could Aakash Rise From The Ashes.)
Apart from Aakash, Datawind also offers tablets in the commercial market under the Ubislate brand. It is understood that with a larger sales presence in India, the company will be better placed to increase the reach of Ubislate devices across its targeted customer segments. In the past, Datawind has been in the news for all the wrong reasons. The use of some Chinese parts in the final product led to a major controversy about two years ago. Datawind announced the completion of 100,000 Aakash low-cost computing access devices for IIT-Bombay last year.
