India

Google's had a penchant for crowdsourcing elements of mapping service for some time now. Its Map Maker volunteers even made North Korea a little less mysterious. In India though, it looks like El Goog's trying to take things to the next level.According to an official post on the internet ...

BlackBerry might just have missed a trick with the recent launch of BlackBerry 10. No not with the devices -- those were largely well-received -- but with the countries it chose to hold the launch in.The launch event represented a new start for the company that once ...

Travel and lifestyle social media platform WAYN (Where are you now), has announced a multi-million dollar deal with India Today Group (ITG), a large Indian media conglomerate.WAYN claims to be the largest platform of its kind with over 21 million members, while ITG claims to engage with nearly 100-million ...

In any emerging market country, getting people online is vital. Studies by the likes of Ericsson have concluded that for every 10 percentage point increase in broadband penetration GDP increases by one percent.That's why news that broadband access in South African has more than doubled in the past two years ...

People around the globe are still coming online on the for the first time in their millions. That much of that growth comes from emerging markets is to be expected. More surprising is that some of the highest rates of internet adoption come from authoritarian states.Most famously, China has ...

Indian digital music platform Saavn, which bills itself at the "Spotify of Bollywood", has launched an English-language service incorporating a quarter of a million songs into its database of Bollywood and South Asian content.The new service will bring songs from the likes of Jay-Z, Pitbull, Shakira, and Michael Jackson ...

Smartphones are clearly gaining serious traction in India. People in that country now spend far more time online using their smartphones than desktops or tablets.That's hardly surprising though. India was, after all, the first country where mobile internet access overtook desktop usage. Add in the much lower barrier to ...

Wall Street, home to Gordon Gecko, the Smurfs ringing the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) bell and eye-wateringly large initial public offering (IPO) valuations. It is home to the two largest bourses in the world by capitalisation, the NYSE and Nasdaq respectively.Unsurprisingly, the 20 most valuable emerging market technology companies ...

News recently dropped that the new version of the Aakash, India’s “student” version of a tablet computer, will launch on 11 November this year. The slate will be priced around US$42 for now, until the numbers scale up enough to pull the tag below US$35. The question is – does ...

India is a mobile country. Earleir this year, it became the first country on the planet to have more people access the web via mobile than desktop. That's because mobile phones entail a much lower barrier to entry than desktop computers do, which helps explain why they've become so prolific ...