October 11th, 2018The festive season in India is arriving and all the companies are gearing up for it. The technology giant Google is also looking to capture the e-commerce market in the country. Google is planning to launch an online storefront for all its branded hardware products in November.
This store will have the electronic devices including its...
February 17th, 2018According to the Boston Consulting Group (BCG)-Google India report, digital consumer spending in India is expected to rise to $100 billion from $40 million by 2020. The report that hit the surface on Thursday, marked the potential of the consumers to spend at a much greater level than they already are.
The report suggests, the...
February 9th, 2018Competition Commission, the statutory body of India, has imposed a fine of Rs 136 crore (around $ 21.1 million) after finding it guilty of abusing its dominant position in India. The amount of penalty charges is equivalent to about 5 percent of Google's revenue from India.
What is the case all about?
The case was filed back...
November 18th, 2017oogle India has crossed $1.11 billion dollar sales mark (turnover of Rs 7,208.9 crore) in the year March, 2017. These figures shows a jump of over 22.1% from the previous year's Rs 5,904 crore.
Sales has witnessed an expansion of 44% this fiscal as per the report by TOI.
Although the local business of Google India grew at...
September 18th, 2017Alphabet Inc's Google has finally forayed into the payments space, by launching its app 'Tez' exclusively in India on Android and iOS. The app is now available on Play Store and App store for the users to download.
Google’s VP for Next Billion Users Caesar Sengupta launched the app at an event in New Delhi in the presence of Finance...
May 25th, 2017Google vice-president for South East Asia and India, Rajan Anandan has been appointed new chairman of Internet and Mobile Association of India (IAMAI). He took over charge from FreeCharges co-founder and chief executive officer Kunal Shah.
MakeMyTrip Chairman & Group CEO Deep Kalra has taken over as vice chairman from music app...
April 28th, 2017Google has expanded support for nine more Indian languages, including Gujarati, Punjabi, Malayalam and Kannada, across various products to ensure more people can access Internet in a language of their choice.
Powered by 'neural machine translation', users will be able to translate between English and nine widely-used Indian languages...
March 8th, 2017After launching Digital Unlocked, a training programme to help small and medium businesses (SMBs) go digital, Google India today announced the launch of SMB Heroes, a nation-wide programme designed to recognise SMBs that have embraced digital platform to grow their business.
A nation-wide programme SMB Heroes will comprise three...
March 6th, 2017Google India and Telangana government have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) aimed at supporting the digitisation efforts of the state.
Google India will provide Google Cloud credits and access to all cloud platform products to eligible startups engaged with Telangana government's T-Hub initiative and through its Developer...
