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YouTube Go Now Available in Beta, an ‘Offline-First’ App for India

5Apr By reutersNo Comments

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YouTube Go Now Available in Beta, an ‘Offline-First’ App for India

Alphabet Inc's Google said on Tuesday it would roll out a mobile YouTube application designed for India, boosting the search company's presence in a burgeoning market with spotty Internet access. Since the fall, Google has been conducting extensive tests in India of YouTube Go, which allows users to save videos to watch offline and monitor their data use. A beta version of the app has been released in the Google Play Store in India, and will be released in other emerging markets later, company executives said in an interview. Analysts have been forecasting a surge in video consumption in India since Reliance Jio, the telecom unit of Reliance Industries Ltd, upended the industry last year with cheap data plans that have prodded rivals to lower prices. Silicon Valley has long regarded In...

Reliance Jio Claim To Have 50 Million Paid Subscribers

30Mar By PriyankaNo Comments

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Reliance Jio Claim To Have 50 Million Paid Subscribers

Reliance Jio, India's newest telecom operator, is closing in on 50 million paid users, days before its free voice, free-data offer ends. Out of 100 million-plus free subscribers, nearly 50 million have signed up for its 'Prime' membership by paying a one-time charge of Rs 99 and buying data packs. A company official said that Jio has already achieved more than 50 per cent of the target set for Jio Prime membership. Jio's promotional Happy New Year plan that offered free voice and data ends on March 31. The company has offered customers Prime membership on payment of one-time fee of Rs 99. Data packs for such members is available for as low as Rs 149 per month. Voice calls on Jio will remain free. The official said daily addition are going up exponentially and actual numbers wil...

Google Acquires Canadian Cloud Specialist Firm AppBridge

14Mar By PriyankaNo Comments

ACQUISITION

Google Acquires Canadian Cloud Specialist Firm AppBridge

Alphabet's Google has announced the acquisition of Canadian technology firm AppBridge that helps companies transfer data to the technology giant's Cloud platform. "We are acquiring Vancouver-based AppBridge that builds connectors to... connect up into Google Cloud," said Prabhakar Raghvan, vice president (apps) Google Cloud at the Cloud Next Conference here. Raghvan, however, did not disclose the details of the deal. The company had yesterday announced the acquisition of start-up firm Kaggle. Google also announced a slew of products and services for both enterprises and individuals including add-ons for Gmail, Hangouts Meet and Hangouts Chat. "Last year, we talked about doubling our enterprise focus for Hangouts and our commitment to building communication tools focused on the ...

Internet Company May Lose Permit if Service Not Started in 1 Year

8Mar By Press Trust of IndiaNo Comments

INDIA

Internet Company May Lose Permit if Service Not Started in 1 Year

Internet companies providing wireless service may lose their permit if they fail to start commercial service within a year of getting spectrum from the Department of Telecom, the regulator Trai said. "For ISP licensees having spectrum assigned from the DoT, a provision should be made in the licensee agreement...that licensee shall offer the commercial service to its subscribers on demand within 12 months from the date of spectrum assignment...failing which spectrum assigned to ISP licensee may be cancelled," Trai said. The suggestions are part of Trai's recommendations on spectrum usage charges and presumptive adjusted gross revenue for internet service providers and commercial VSAT service providers. The regulator provided relief to internet service providers by suggesting to the ...

25Feb By NitishNo Comments

CHINA

China Third Party Mobile Payments Alipay Climbs to USD 5.5 Trillion

Driven by the explosive growth of Internet finance, China is now witnessing a boom on mobile payment market which touched a whopping USD 5.5 trillion last year. Data showed that value of Chinese third-party mobile payments has tripled to 38 trillion yuan (USD 5.5 trillion) in 2016, state-run People's Daily reported on Saturday. With the popularity of mobile payment, Chinese people can enjoy life without cash or cards as what they need is a mobile device, it said. Even the farmers and herdsmen living in the remotest villages in Tibet can now use their cell phones to purchase daily necessities online since local administrative villages have been completely covered by communication signal. A survey by Nieslen, a US-headquartered global information data and measurement company, showed ...

For Mukesh Ambani Right Team and Using Investors Money Carefully is a Path To Success

15Feb By AnkitaNo Comments

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For Mukesh Ambani Right Team and Using Investors Money Carefully is a Path To Success

Reliance Industries chairman Mukesh Ambani, who is betting big on data-driven telecom with his Jio Infocomm, today described the digital play sweeping the world as the fourth industrial revolution and said data is the "new oil". "The foundation of the fourth industrial revolution is connectivity and data. Data is the new natural resource. We are at the beginning of an era where data is the new oil," Ambani said at the opening day of 3-day Nasscom leadership forum here. Salient feature of this revolution is "convergence of the physical biological and digital sciences" and "we are on the verge of an exponential change", he said. Predicting that India will be a key player in this revolution, Ambani said with "our large talent base, we will have a competitive advantage in this era." ...

Indian Police Bust $550 Million Internet Scam That Duped Thousands

4Feb By NitishNo Comments

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Indian Police Bust $550 Million Internet Scam That Duped Thousands

Indian police have busted an internet scam in which around 650,000 people lost a combined 37 billion rupees ($549 million) after sending money to a company that promised they would earn cash by clicking on web links, police said on Friday. Police, who described the pyramid-style scheme as one of India's biggest ever, said they had arrested three ringleaders on the outskirts of New Delhi, the capital, and seized more than 5 billion rupees ($74 million) from bank accounts. "They learned that if you give some money back to members, the investments would go up exponentially," Amit Pathak, head of a police cyber crime unit in India's populous northern state of Uttar Pradesh, told Reuters. The men ran a series of websites that promised would-be subscribers a chance to earn five rupees (...

6Jan By reutersNo Comments

CHINA

China’s ZTE to Slash About 3,000 Jobs: Sources

Chinese telecom equipment maker ZTE, which is facing US trade sanctions that could severely disrupt its supply chain, is slashing about 3,000 jobs, including a fifth of positions in its struggling handset business in China, company sources said. The sources said the Shenzhen-based company, one of the world's biggest telecoms gear makers, is axing about 5 percent of its 60,000 global workforce. Its global handset operations will shed 600 jobs, or 10 percent of the total, with the cuts concentrated in China, where it has been losing market share. "Cuts in the handset business in China will be beyond 20 percent," said a senior executive who has been briefed on the lay-offs, which are scheduled to be completed within the first quarter. A local manager in one of the company's overse...

Sundar Pichai Announced Google Digital Unloack Initiatives For Small, Medium Business

4Jan By AnkitaNo Comments

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Sundar Pichai Announced Google Digital Unloack Initiatives For Small, Medium Business

Technology giant Google today announced a slew of initiatives, including a new app Primer and training modules under its My Business offering, as it looks to further tap the 51-million strong small and medium businesses (SMB) market in India. Making the announcements, Google's India-born CEO Sundar Pichai said the company is working on products for India that can be expanded globally. "When we solve for a place like India, we solve for everyone around the world. That has led us to grow our team here and spend more time and ensure the products are useful for everyone," he said. Google's My Business will help small businesses set up website from their mobile devices and all they need is a smart phone and a few minutes, he said. The company has also launched Digital Unlocked, an educati...

2Jan By AdityaNo Comments

CHINA

A Tweet That Shake Twitter Business in China

Twitter's manager for China, whose appointment just eight months ago sparked controversy, has announced her resignation but welcomed the growing number of Chinese advertisers even though the service is blocked by Beijing. Kathy Chen, appointed in April as general manager for the China region comprising mainland China, Hong Kong, Macau and Taiwan, made the announcement yesterday evening on her own Twitter account. "Now that the Twitter APAC team (Asia-Pacific team in Singapore) is working directly with Chinese advertisers, this is the right time for me to leave the company," she said. Like other Western platforms such as YouTube, Facebook and Instagram, Twitter is inaccessible in mainland China, blocked by the communist regime's vast system of internet censorship. Unable to reach l...

31Dec By Press Trust of IndiaNo Comments

INDIA, News

Apple to Make iPhones in Bengaluru

Apple is all set to start manufacturing its iconic iPhones in India at Bengaluru, as part of efforts to cash in on the world's second largest smartphone market in a big way. Local manufacturing is expected to help Apple price its phones more competitively in India as it currently attracts 12.5 percent additional duty on imports. The phones would be manufactured by Wistron, a Taiwanese OEM maker for Apple, according to top government sources. "Wistron has plans for setting up iPhone manufacturing plant for domestic market in Peenya," top government sources familiar with the developments told Pixr8. Another senior government official said Bengaluru has the talent required for quality high technology products and that was the reason for selecting the city. The official added that Foxcon...

Rs 2000 Cr Cisco Scam: BSNL to Look Into Allegations of Irregularity in Tender

29Dec By Press Trust of IndiaNo Comments

INDIA

Rs 2000 Cr Cisco Scam: BSNL to Look Into Allegations of Irregularity in Tender

State-owned Bharat Sanchar Nigam Ltd (BSNL) today said it will look into allegations of irregularity in award of network equipment tender to US tech giant Cisco in 2014. Reports said BSNL tender norms for procuring IP-MPLS equipment for the Network for Spectrum (NFS) project were allegedly tweaked to so that the Rs 2,000 crore contract went to US giant. "Prima facie there is no substance to the allegations, but since the reports have come we will look into the matter once again. In the past also, these things have come up before I joined, and a proper reply on the subject has been given," BSNL CMD Anupam Shrivastava told. Cisco, in an emailed statement, said the company does not comment on customer relationships or internal processes. "Cisco strives to maintain high standards of et...