Prime Minister Narendra Modi, speaking at the India Mobile Congress in New Delhi on Friday reeled out statistics to show how India has turned into an exporter of mobile phones from being an importer and how big tech companies -- from Apple to Google -- are lining up to become manufacturers in the country. He said after the fastest rollout of 5G mobile telephony services, India will lead the world on 6G. Recalling the launch of 5G technology in the country on October 1, 2022, he remarked that within a year there are about 5 lakh 5G base stations across the country.
Internet search major Google is likely to pick up a 5 per cent stake in media giant Time Warner's AOL for about $1 billion, the Wall Street Journal has reported.
The US launched an investigation, focusing on whether the tax in India and other countries discriminated against American companies, were retroactive, and reflected unreasonable tax policy.
The search giant's music streaming service in India is priced a third lower than the iPhone maker's subscription fee.
Amit Singhal had joined Uber in January as senior vice president of engineering after working for 15 years at Google, where he oversaw the internet giant's search efforts.
Walmart-owned fintech firm PhonePe said it has crossed 500 million lifetime registered users on its platform. With this milestone, 1 in 3 Indians are now on PhonePe. The company said it is the first Indian internet company to have reached this scale globally. This milestone has been achieved in just over 7 years since the PhonePe UPI (Unified Payments Interface) payments launched in August 2016.
On Wednesday, a search for Top 10 criminals in India, yielded an image of PM Modi.
'The whole narrative will change from TV is dying to TV-plus-digital is the future.'
'When Bad Newz was given to me to direct, the first thing I did was go back to my childhood.' 'It's an ode to Hindi cinema.'
"We are proud of what is happening in India and share Prime Minister's vision of digital India," Pichai said.
Two Indian engineers, who missed chances twice to buy Google nearly 10 years ago, have now raked in funds for their own site to rival the search engine giant. The Indian duo have received funds worth $20 million from media and entertainment conglomerate Time Warner for their search site -- Kosmix.
Fast paced growth in computer literacy and greater use of data on mobiles will help India's Internet economy grow to $200 billion or 5 per cent of the GDP by 2020.
Indian-American Pichai was awarded the Padma Bhushan for 2022 in the Trade and Industry category.
In these times of credit crisis, Santa Claus is ringing in gifts for employees at Google, with the search engine giant doling out the G1 -- an iPhone version from its own stable -- instead of Christmas cash bonus.
Pichai and Page may prove to be a great partnership - one an ace executor and other a tech visionary
Indians have always been there working for the company.
Google's comments echo figures released recently by AT&T and O2, which carry the iPhone exclusively in the US and UK respectively.
Web users in China are having a harrowing time specially to use search engine Google and login into its mail service 'Gmail' as Internet speed has been drastically reduced coinciding with a key week-long meet of the ruling Communist Party.
An individual might not be able to put together the data and number-crunching resources that institutional traders employ.
Interent is a flourishing business in India.
"We are delighted to welcome Google as a strategic investor in Jio Platforms. We have signed a binding partnership and an investment agreement under which Google will invest Rs 33,737 crores for a 7.7 per cent stake in Jio Platforms," Mukesh Ambani said at the company's annual general meeting.
Google Inc opened its first two data centres in Asia on Wednesday to cater to the world's fastest growing consumer technology markets, but the company has no plans to open one in China or India.
Weather updates at the start of the day of or traffic movement during the office hours are some of the information that most of the users look for daily, Kentaro Tokusei, Product Management Director (Japan) said at the company event in Taipei on Tuesday.
... And it's not just fear of job losses, says Ajit Balakrishnan.
The innovation will be on its South Indian channels on September 23-24.
Earlier in the day, Pichai announced Google would work with the Indian Railways
Popular Internet search engine Google's chief executive Eric Schmidt and founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin were offered a raise in their salaries, which they declined to accept saying they would continue taking the token amount of $1 annually.
Internet giant Google Inc is 'experimenting' with a service that will enable web surfers to block out all advertising for a small monthly fee of $3 or below.
The online population forms a brand new market that cuts across borders, it added.
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The company wants to put Android handset in every hand.
'We went from zero to about 10 million users in three months. Paytm came out with the wallet play and we came out with the UPI play.'
Google has partnered with cab operators Ola and Uber, and a user can seamlessly book a cab with just one tap. This service is available in 27 cities across India
The device supports a host of India-specific apps and the more you use it, the better it gets.
Under Nikesh Arora's leadership, SoftBank has made several investments in India in a short span.
TRAI said that Internet service providers would not be allowed to discriminate on pricing of data access for different web services.
'The focus needs to shift towards the ability to collect payments, particularly in tier-3 to tier-4 areas where acceptance is still lacking.'
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