The inititiave will see the partners collaborate on developing lower-cost, higher-quality smartphones and deploying Internet access in underserved communities.
Initiative aims to encourage more people to use the Internet.
Social media giant accused of anti-competitive conduct by abusing its market power to create a monopoly and crushing smaller competitors.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi will address the India-US Startup Konnect and share his vision on 'Start up India, Stand up India' as part of his US visit later this month.
The company plans to create a new class of non-voting shares.
Modi won the online readers' poll conducted by Time magazine for Person of the Year 2016, the second time he emerged winner of the reader's choice poll.
Facebook -- which counts India among its largest markets with over 300 million users -- has been in the eye of a storm after a Wall Street Journal (WSJ) report alleged that the social media platform's content policies favoured the ruling party in India. The report had accused Facebook of ignoring posts containing hate speech by BJP MLA Raja Singh. Since then, the ruling BJP and Congress have been trading barbs over the social media giant's alleged political bias.
It is alleged that Cambridge Analytica received data from Global Science Research which employed 'illegal means' of personal data harvesting of Indians using Facebook, they said.
A grouping of Indian and Indian-origin professionals working with tech giants like Google, Uber, Amazon and Facebook have written an open letter against the new religion-based citizenship law and the planned national register of citizens, terming them as "fascist". The letter by 'TechAgainstFascism' on online publishing platform Medium also urged the leaders to refuse to shut off the Internet at the "government's whim" and to ensure that content moderation is not skewing pro-government.
US President Barack Obama leads the popularity chart with over 43 million followers, followed by the Pope Francis, who is followed by over 14 million people on social site Twitter.
Here's a glimpse of all that happened around the world last month, in 14 images.
British data analytics firm Cambridge Analytica is at the centre of a controversy in India, the United States and Britain after two newspapers reported on Sunday that the company harvested personal data about Facebook users beginning in 2014. How does that matter, what does it entail and should you be worried? All these answers and more, explained right here.
So far, there seems to be limited debate about their activities in India, where virtually all FAANG companies have teamed up in different ways with India's most powerful businessman, observes T N Ninan.
He will be in Mumbai for a day to deliver a keynote address at Future Unleashed.
The company is to act as an ISP across rural areas for local entrepreneurs.
India's stand is important against the backdrop of US FCC's decision to roll back its net neutrality rules adopted in 2015
Dhivya Suryadevara, chief finance officer of the US's largest automaker General Motors, comes in at the 4th spot, followed by Vimeo CEO Anjali Sud (14), cofounder and co-CEO of Robinhood, Baiju Bhatt (24) and Female Founders Fund founding partner Anu Duggal (32).
Success mantras of the world's top tech CEOs
FB gave these companies access to information of users and even their friends.
Pune-based entrepreneur's unlisted company is already the largest vaccine manufacturer in the world and the networth has been helped by vaccine distribution and manufacturing potential of his business, it added. Recentrly, Serum struck an agreement with AstraZeneca to manufacture 1 billion doses of coronavirus vaccine being developed by Oxford University.
Internet.org is a Facebook-led initiative
The social media giant promised that news and views will be checked for veracity and pejorative content will be weeded out.
This puts an end to Facebook's Free Basics and Airtel's zero rating plans in India.
Public-interest litigators Arundhati Katju and Menaka Guruswamy, who spearheaded a historic legal battle for LGBTQ rights in India, along with Reliance Industries Chairman Mukesh Ambani are among the Indians who have been named by TIME magazine in its prestigious list of the 100 most influential people in the world. The list also includes Indian-American comedian and TV host Hasan Minhaj.
In the Forbes rich list Mukesh Ambani is ranked 39th.
Duterte had consistently led the Time 100 Reader Poll, an online survey in which the publication had asked its readers to vote for who should be included in this year's Time 100 list of the world's most influential people.
'I am in favour of keeping these talented people here so they can go to work in Silicon Valley.'
Prime Minister Narendra Modi, tennis star Sania Mirza and actor Priyanka Chopra are among the probable contenders named by the Time magazine for its annual list of the most influential people in the world.
Facebook on Thursday announced that it has shut down Free Basics in India.
The comments drew sharp criticism from netizens with some calling Facebook's Free Basics plan as Internet colonialism.
A 14-year-old Muslim boy in the US, who was detained after his homemade clock was mistook to be a bomb, has been applauded and invited by the White House, Facebook and Google for his innovation.
Technology purchases in the People's Republic will reach $136 billion this year, four times more than in India.
It's a honour to welcome Prime Minister Narendra Modi to Silicon Valley, says Sundar Pichai.
Jeff Bezos of Amazon tops the list for the second consecutive year with networth of $147 billion.
India has the third highest number of billionaires in the world after the US and China, according to a new list by the prestigious Forbes magazine, which said Reliance Industries chairman Mukesh Ambani reclaimed his spot as Asia's richest person, dethroning Chinese business tycoon Jack Ma who was the richest person in the region a year ago.
Software developers who tried on an Apple Watch for the first time on Friday predicted a rush of new apps over the next few months.
'Our proactive detection rate for hate speech in India is close to 97 per cent -- which means that of the hate speech content we remove, we detect 97 per cent of it proactively, even before anyone reports it.'
'There is no doubt at all that Jio's disruption of the mobile broadband market was a turning point for India's digital economy.'
Parents should enroll their children in coding classes only as a leisure time activity, that too with strict curbs on screen time.
"I'm going to India next week and we're talking trade. They've been hitting us very hard for many, many years," Trump said at a 'Keep America Great' rally in Colorado on Thursday. Trump told thousands of his supporters that he "really likes" Prime Minister Modi and they would be talking business.
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