Internet giant Google recently said that it would spend around $10bn in India over the next five to seven years through equity investments and tie-ups, marking its biggest commitment to a key growth market. The investments will be done through a digitization fund, highlighting Google’s focus on the rapid pace of growth of apps and…
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T-Hub, MeitY and Digital India partner to lead a program for Hardware startups in India
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•T-Hub, which leads India’s pioneering innovation ecosystem, announced its partnership with the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY) and Digital India. As part of the partnership, T-Hub will lead Digital India’s Scale Up program for hardware and IoT startups across India. MeitY, Digital India’s aim is to provide scale up opportunities to the startups…
CSC, Coca-Cola India ink MoU to boost outreach in rural India
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•Common Services Centers under the aegis of the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology, announced partnership with Coca-Cola India to list Coca Cola products on its Grameen eStore platform. The move will promote availability of consumer products at doorsteps in rural India through local entrepreneurs and e-kirana stores. The partnership will make available affordable essential…
India becoming a Silicon Valley of its own
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•India has been long known as the world’s outsourcing destination. From housing BPOs for the world’s biggest tech companies to moving forward as a manufacturing hub for the world, India has come a long way. The country is aggressively reinventing itself as an innovation hub and boasts of 27 home-grown unicorns who are leading the…
Mr. Prasad unveils new initiatives to mark first MeitY Start-up Summit
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•Shri Ravi Shankar Prasad, Union Minister of Law & Justice, Communications and Electronics & Information Technology, has unveiled a series of new initiatives by the Ministry of Electronics & Information (MeitY) in the first MeitY Start-up Summit held today at New Delhi. Speaking on the occasion Shri Ravi Shakar Prasad stressed that there is great…