India
The world’s second-largest mobile operator has been hit hard by the constraints on consumer spending in its big European markets.
Facebook wants to get the world onto the Internet -- but whose Internet exactly?
A possible hardware platform to bring Alibaba’s services to India’s massive mobile market.
Online activists in India are concerned over Facebook’s control over all data accessed on the service.
Plus an NPR hit on India’s exploding tech scene.
The deal is likely to bolster the Chinese phone maker’s presence in the world’s third-largest smartphone market.
WhatsApp’s influence, super-cheap Uber rides and fear of the b-word.
A group of India’s leading technology and Internet firms has pulled out of Facebook’s flagship effort to get billions more people online.
Efforts were focused on government and commercial sources of key political, economic and military information.
The hire of Peeyush Ranjan comes shortly after Flipkart hired another Google exec, Punit Soni, as its chief product officer.
The companies have held discussions, but the talks did not involve a deal anywhere close in size to the $1 billion number reported elsewhere.
“They are more focused on succeeding in India than trying to turn around China,” said a person familiar with Amazon’s thinking.
21.6 million smartphones were sold in India in Q4 2014, a 90 percent surge from a year earlier.
The victim claims the company failed to maintain basic safety procedures.
The status of the taxi-hailing app is unclear, with conflicting reports.
Twitter acquired India’s ZipDial to help bring in new users.
So we’re all rich, right?
A cloud-based initiative is steering rag pickers away from scavenging, and providing them with tools as micro-entrepreneurs.
Do the two global powers build, buy or partner?
Xiaomi had been asked to suspend selling its smartphones in a case related to patent infringements.
An Uber driver raped a passenger in India, according to authorities.
Indian police on Sunday arrested an Uber driver suspected of raping a female passenger.
The 4G Redmi will be around $160, with an even less expensive 3G version to follow.
Plus, Android One’s slow start in India, a Lyft investor happily slags Uber and He-Man’s best one-liners.
At Code/Mobile, the Yahoo vet talked about what Silicon Valley companies can learn from developing markets.
The strategy: Roll out 4G networks, get users hooked on apps and help customers “visualize” the data they are using.
Plus, Facebook looks to share the anonymity market, Steve Ballmer ranks his regrets and Google launches camel-cam.
An ongoing tax dispute with the Indian government kept the plant out of the Microsoft deal.
Fulfillment centers and “sortation centers” around the globe.
Snapdeal says 60 percent of its transactions now occur on mobile phones.
The number of Internet users and smartphone owners is booming in the world’s second-most populous country.
The longtime veteran was chosen earlier this year as the software giant’s third leader in its history.
A mobile exec gets a chance to see India and its vastly growing pool of mobile and broadband users.
In emerging markets, hundreds of millions of consumers leapfrogged the PC era altogether.
Six teams win a Gates Foundation contest in India to reinvent toilets for developing countries.
In a best-case scenario, eBay will eventually acquire the Indian marketplace, an exec said.
Time to say hello to the new leader of the software giant.