Google shortlisted four startups from India for its fifth mentorship program Launchpad Accelerator that will begin on January 29, 2018, at the Google Developers Launchpad Space in San Francisco. Launchpad Accelerator is a six-month program from Google that includes an intensive two-week bootcamp in San Francisco and mentoring from more...
Twitter Goes Lite in India
San Francisco-based Twitter launched a lighter version of its platform -- Twitter Lite -- in India. The browser-based product which uses 70 percent less data and loads 30 percent faster than the app, will also be available in Indonesia and Philippines soon. "India is a critical market for us....
SFO International Film Fest to Honor India's Shah Rukh Khan
The San Francisco International Film Festival, to be held April 5-19 at various venues throughout San Francisco and Berkeley, Calif., will pay a special tribute to Bollywood star Shah Rukh Khan. This event will take place April 14 at 8:30 p.m. at the Castro Theater in San Francisco, and will...
Cisco Teams up with India's Reliance Jio for Converged Networks
San Francisco-based Cisco will collaborate with India's Reliance Jio to build an All-IP services platform. Cisco's Open Network Architecture and Cloud Scale Networking technologies featuring IP/MPLS, spanning areas, including data center, Wi-Fi, security and contact center solutions will form the base infrastructure of this concept. Cisco will build a simplified,...
AliveCor Partners with Apollo Hospitals, India; Offers Smartphone Heart Monitoring
AliveCor, Inc., headquartered in San Francisco, and maker of the first FDA-approved smartphone device, has teamed up with Apollo Hospitals in India to provide heart monitoring capabilities for people affected by arrhythmia. The collaboration is part of an effort to improve the ability to detect atrial fibrillation and prevent strokes,...
Stanford Inspired Mental Health App Tested in India
The Los Angeles Times reports that in a three-month pilot project this year, about 200 students at the Hyderabad campus of the Birla Institute of Technology and Science, and another city university used a cellphone app to monitor their mental health and communicate with counselors by phone and text. The...