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Bharti acquires 49% stake in Qualcomm, to roll out 4G in more Indian locations

Bharti Airtel, the international telecomms company, and Qualcomm, the firm known for its next-gen mobile tech, have announced an agreement for Bharti to acquire an stake in Qualcomm Asia Pacific’s…

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Dhingana Reveals 10.5M Users, Pushes Claim as 'India's Spotify'

Indian on-demand music service Dhingana has revealed that it saw 10.5 million visitors last month, a figure that, the Bollywood specialist says, makes it the largest legal streaming music site…

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Google Launches its Business Photos Service in India

Google has introduced Business Photos in India, extending the global reach of the service that helps retailers attract customers by posting panoramic photos of their store or shop-front to the Web….

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Spuul Brings Bollywood and Other India Movies to the iPad and iPhone

Fans of Bollywood and other Indian films have a new option for watching movies on the go after streaming service Spuul launched an iOS app, bringing its catalogue of content from the…

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Indian ISP Airtel is Reporting Blocking Sites Due to a Court Order

We recently reported that Indian Internet service provides (ISP) Reliance Communication had begun blocking video sites like Vimeo and certain torrent services , and now rival Airtel is now doing the same,…

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India Tipped to Become the World's Biggest Facebook User by 2015

It has just seen Brazil overtake it to become Facebook’s largest overseas market, but India is being tipped to overtake the US and the Latin American country to become the…

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China's UC Targets 100 Million Mobile Users in India by 2015

India’s mobile Web market is growing impressively, to the point that it will overtake fixed-line Internet usage this year, and Chinese browser maker UC is among the companies keen to take advantage…

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Media.net Will Soon Employ 500 People To Challenge Google

You’ve probably never heard of Divyank ‘Div’ Turakhia, and that’s a shame. Turakhia is an amazing India-born serial entrepreneur who started his first business when he was 14 years old,…

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India Probes Google's AdWords Following Complaint

Fresh from revealing it is under investigation in Argentina and Korea, Google’s search business is set to face a new probe with India’s Competition Commission of India (CCI) ready to put…

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This Week in Media

One week after our conference in Amsterdam, we are now back with our weekly media roundup. From World Press Freedom Day to Guardian Activate Summit in New York, the last…

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Facebook, Google Face Wait on Indian Web Content Case

Google and Facebook must wait until August before they are able to challenge an Indian legal case accusing them of failing to adequately remove objectionable content in the country, the…

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Indian ISPs Reportedly Blocking Vimeo

According to numerous sources around Twitter and elsewhere, the Department of Telecom in India appears to be blocking popular video-sharing site Vimeo, as well as various torrent-related websites. The blocking…

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Guardian Activate Summit Expands to India

The next Guardian Activate Summit will take place in India in October, the British media outlet officially confirmed today during Activate New York, which we will be covering all day….

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India: Mobile Web to Overtake PC Access by the end of 2012

Use of the mobile Web is set to overtake fixed-line Internet in India by the end of the year, as the country’s mobile revolution continues at full speed. Statistics from…

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25 Year Old Indian Bags MBA Place With a Tweet

A 25 year-old Indian man has won a place on the University of Iowa’s Tippie MBA program thanks to Twitter, after his tweet-entry saw him selected as the sole recipient…