India

Breaking down the barriers to the next billion [Wired 2013]

Day two of the Wired Conference kicked off with the lofty task of “bringing the next billion online” and included missives from those who…

Unseating Samsung: who has the stones to depose mobile’s current king?

On its relatively speedy ascent to the position as the world’s biggest phone maker, Samsung has crushed practically every incumbent and all new comers….

Free internet can fix education issues in developing countries [T4A]

There are many issues facing the emerging markets and most will argue that technology and access to the internet can help solve those problems….

Windows Phone overtakes iOS in India but Android still massively dominant

While the Windows Phone devices grabbing all the headlines tend to be at the top of the range — the Lumia 925 and 1020…

Samsung could soon slip from top smartphone spot in India

This is interesting. Samsung’s aggressive smartphone strategy, tied with a range that aims to please every pocket, has seen it leap to the top…

China’s UC browser overtakes Opera Mini in India

This is potentially big. China’s UC Browser has overtaken Opera Mini as the most used mobile browser in India. As The Next Web reports,…

Eric Schmidt tells India to stop policing internet, focus on innovation

Google chairman Eric Schmidt has told India that it needs to stop censoring the web and instead make innovation a priority. In an editorial…

India: Apple’s next big market?

Apple is trying to crack the Indian market for the iPhone in a bid to challenge Samsung’s dominance in the emerging market giant. It…

Amazon meets with Indian officials in bid to relax strict ecommerce laws

Representatives from Amazon have met with Indian officials in a bid to get them to relax strict laws which stop foreign ecommerce companies entering…

Google gets crowdsourcing with Indian mapathon

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…

Did BlackBerry miss a trick with the launch of BB10?

BlackBerry might just have missed a trick with the recent launch of BlackBerry 10. No not with the devices — those were largely well-received…

WAYN: social travel platform partners with India media group in multi-million dollar deal

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…

SA broadband doubles in two years as mobile data costs plummet

In any emerging market country, getting people online is vital. Studies by the likes of Ericsson have concluded that for every 10 percentage point…

Meeker files: emerging markets own web growth, mobile on top

People around the globe are still coming online on the for the first time in their millions. That much of that growth comes from…

‘Spotify of Bollywood’ launches English-language service

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…

Smartphones dominate Indian web use, tablets on the rise

Smartphones are clearly gaining serious traction in India. People in that country now spend far more time online using their smartphones than desktops or…

The 15 most valuable emerging market technology companies on Wall Street

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….

The new Aakash: Can India’s student tablet really make an impact again?

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….

India mobile sales to hit 250m in 2013, will be 326m by 2016

India is a mobile country. Earleir this year, it became the first country on the planet to have more people access the web via…

Chinese online travel to be worth $48bn by 2016, Indian growth set to explode

A new report from eMarketer reckons that China’s well-established online travel sector will hit US$32.51-billion in sales for the year 2012 — but by…

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