Youtube Gaming now lets Indian gamers stream their play live

Google has launched the YouTube Gaming mobile app on Android and iOS in India. YouTube Gaming is an app that seeks to keep gamers connected to the games, players, and culture with videos, live streams, and the community. Globally, video games are quite a spectator sport unlike in India where they are mostly a living room […]

Google Project Ara to soon release modular smartphone, not tablet; could surprise on price

Google could release one of world’s first truly modular mobile device — one with user-replaceable parts — as early as next month and it won’t be a tablet, but a smartphone, according to person close to the company’s Project Ara unit. “People are saying it’s a tablet because a benchmarking site said the screen size was […]

Why Google’s takeover of Twitter is inevitable

When I started using social media about 8-9 years ago, Facebook and Twitter were largely equal in their cool factor. In fact, while it was not obvious what Facebook was (a more intrusive form of Orkut, anyone?), the possibilities of Twitter seemed as limitless as the places where your ‘contacts’ lived. Over the next nine years, Facebook […]

COLUMN: The True Price of Facebook’s ‘Free Internet’ program

Facebook, the world’s biggest social network, is prompting its users to send a submission to the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India to save its ‘Free Basics’ program, urging them to fight the “small, vocal group” of net neutrality activists. “A small, vocal group of critics are lobbying to have Free Basics banned on the basis […]

Google ends the Great Online Shopping Festival in India

Google India has cancelled its three-year-old annual shopping event – the Great Online Shopping Festival, taking a step back to let the big giants like Flipkart and Amazon do their own thing. As Google pointed out, back in 2012, when it launched Great Online Shopping Festival to rival USA’s Cyber Monday, the total online shopping Industry […]

Lava Pixel V1: Android One challenges Lenovo K3 Note and Yu Yureka Plus

It was written off for dead, but Google’s Android One program is back, and with it, hopefully, the fortunes of smaller Indian brands like Lava. The new range of Android One phones, starting off with Lava Pixel V1, will have three key differences compared to their earlier brethren – they’ll all have 4G, they’ll have […]

Flipkart hires Google veteran to head product development at Myntra

Myntra, part of Flipkart, appointed Ambarish Kenghe as Senior Vice President and Head of Product. Ambarish will start working at Myntra’s Bengaluru headquarters by the end of this month and will report to CEO, Mukesh Bansal to scale up Myntra’s product road map. His task at the app-based retailer will include “leveraging the mobile smartphone […]

Google, Tata Trusts launch ‘Internet Carts’ for rural women in India

  Tata Trusts and Google India today announced the launch of a special program called “Internet Saathi” to help rural women use the Internet and benefit from it in their daily lives. “The joint initiative is aimed at bridging the technology gender divide, which currently puts women in rural India at further risk of getting […]

Google, Magicbricks to launch Great Online Home Festival

After the Great Online Shopping Festival, it’s the Great Online Home Festival or GOHF. The ten day long online event, organized by Magicbricks, GroupM and Google – will be held from 18th July till 27th July, 2015. Property stock worth upto Rs. 3000 cr will be available for customers to choose from, Magicbricks said in […]

Youtube censors movie cleared by India’s Censor Board

All India Bakchod (AIB) fans may be raving against remarks by Censor Board member on the content of their ‘roast’, but Google’s Youtube has just showed that it can play a bigger censor. According to ‘Kerala Freethinkers Forum’, Youtube has blocked a movie that they uploaded for “violation of Youtube guidelines”. According to The Hindu, […]

Banned in India, Bangladesh goes virtual with Google Street View

It may be banned in India, but that has not prevented India’s neighbour Bangladesh from going online in a big way with Google’s Street View. The service allows users to virtually walk along any street using their computer or mobile phone using the Google Maps app. Globally, 65 countries are on Google Street View. Google […]

Google Nexus 6 to start shipping in India on Christmas date, release price 44k

Google Nexus 6, arguably the most sought after high-end phone in India right now, will start shipping in the next two days from Flipkart in India, according to a source in the e-commerce firm. The online retailer had opened the Google Nexus 6 for preorder on Nov 18, more than a month ago, but had […]

Samsung Galaxy Note 4 availability from Tuesday in India, release date 21

The Samsung Galaxy Note 4 will start selling and be available in stores in India on Tuesday, a week after its official release date. UPDATE: The phone is now available online. While e-stores like Flipkart, Snapdeal and Amazon are yet to start selling the Note 4, a relatively unknown site called theelectronicstore.in has started making […]

Google signs agreement with AP Government for ‘Digital AP’ project

The Government of Andhra Pradesh and Google India signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) today to support Chief Minister N. Chandrababu Naidu’s vision of transforming the state of Andhra Pradesh to “Digital AP.” To realise this vision, Google India – in collaboration with the Andhra Pradesh state government – will launch a number of initiatives […]

Lenovo A328 – the best Google Android One alternative?

So you’re excited about the Google Android One platform, and want to buy one the three phones launched by Micromax, Karbonn and Spice. But just before that, you want to check out other options. Here’s a low down of the alternatives to Google One in the market, all of which have the same quad-core processor, […]

Intex Aqua 4X – Cheapest Android phone in India at Rs 2.7k

Priced at just Rs 2,700, it had the potential to upset the apple cart for many people, including Google and its Google One platform and even Mozilla. But Intex’s Aqua 4X Android phone, unfortunately, comes with a key drawback – it is fitted with Android 4.2 Jelly Bean. The 4-inch phone is the cheapest Android […]

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