U.S.-based firms Microsoft, LinkedIn, Oracle, Facebook, and Google are increasing their engineering staff in India. These companies are seeking engineers from India to work on technologies similar to their global counterparts to build competence in niche technology areas. A report from Washington-DC based Bain & Company published last month said...
9 U.S. Companies among Top 25 Best Workplaces in India
Based on LinkedIn's study of actions, nine American companies are listed among the 25 most desirable companies for employees in India. At #2 is Amazon: With more than 10,000 employees in India Amazon is rapidly expanding its Prime Video offerings in the country, investing $5 billion in 2016 with plans to...
Google to Help a Billion Indians Go Online
How, did you ask? Google has enabled nine Indian languages to work on the new AI-enabled Google Translate, and it has doubled the number of Indian languages on Gboard, its custom mobile keyboard, to 22. These new additions will allow millions of Indian users to type and search for emojis and...
Software as a Service Booms in India
Forbes reports that according to a joint research report by Google and Accel Partners, by 2025, companies in India are likely to command 8% share of the global SaaS market which could be worth $10 billion annualy. Tracxn, a startup intelligence and market research platform, says that since 2010 India's...
India's Indus Creates a Localized Smartphone OS
Rakesh Deshmukh, Sudhir Bangarambandi and Akash Dongre, alumni of the Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay and co-founders of Mumbai-based Indus have customized Android to build a regional mobile operating system called Indus OS for smartphones sold across the diverse landscape of India. The operating system was built on the following...
Google India Encourages Small Businesses to Go Online
A joint study by Google and KPMG titled Impact of internet and digitization on Small and Medium Businesses in India pointed out that 32% of digital businesses cater to customers outside their city, and employ five times as many people as do businesses that are offline; and profits of digitally...