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India shows potential for chip makers
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These 10 cities have the worst air pollution in the world, and it is up to 15...
Air pollution already kills 3.3 million people a year.And that number could double by 2050.The most harmful pollutant to human health is called PM 2.5, short for particle matter that's less than 2.5...
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India scraps its proposal for a completely bonkers encryption law that...
The government of India has scrapped a proposal for a new law on encryption that would have required all citizens to maintain a plain-text version of their encrypted information for 90 days.The Times...
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14-year-old wins Google Science Fair award with genius way to use corn cobs
As a small girl, Lalita Prasida Sripada Srisai enjoyed long walks through her home country of India. She enjoyed seeing how the cultures varied between villages.During her travels, she often...
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Google plans to bring free Wi-Fi to 400 train stations in India (GOOG)
Google just announced plans to bring free Wi-fi to 400 train stations across India in the next several years.Partnering with India's largest railway network and a major fiber internet company, Google...
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Google and Microsoft have a plan to get all of India onto the internet (FB,...
This weekend, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi met with the biggest tech companies in Silicon Valley. Google, Facebook, and Tesla were among those jostling for the Asian premier's attention, and a...
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Amazon is building an army of 'cowboys' and 'Jeff bots' in India (AMZN)
Winning market share in India is one of Amazon's biggest challenges right now. It hit $1 billion in sales there faster than it has in any other geography, but continues to face huge hurdles and growing...
View ArticleThis is what it looks like when blind people see for the first time
Some types of blindness are curable. Anita and Sonia were both born blind, in poor villages in India. They had their blindness cured with a quick surgery from the nonprofit 20/20/20, which aims to...
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Massive earthquake strikes Afghanistan
A magnitude 7.7 earthquake hit Afghanistan Monday morning, affecting nearby India and Pakistan, according to the United States Geological Survey.The Associated Press reports that tremors were felt in...
View ArticleThis lake in India is so polluted it froths and catches on fire
Lake Bellandur in Bangalore, India froths and catches fire due to massive pollution.Produced by Emmanuel OcbazghiFollow BI Video: On Facebook Join the conversation about this story »
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This is the world's most polluted city
Delhi is the world's most polluted city because it is a "toxic pollutant punchbowl" with a wide variety of factors giving it its notorious title, a study has found.By assessing the megacity's...
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'It seems like we are living in a gas chamber': India's capital has an...
NEW DELHI — The Delhi government announced an emergency plan Friday to curb the capital's pollution levels, among the worst in the world, by limiting drivers to alternate days beginning next month.From...
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A food delivery company is advertising on porn sites in India
An India-based restaurant search service has literally put food and porn together mimicking the popular internet epithet "food porn." Zomato has gone a step further in aiming to tap the potential of...
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India is temporarily banning Facebook's plan to provide free internet to the...
Facebook's plan to provide free internet to the developing world just hit another hurdle: The Indian regulator is ordering a temporary ban on the service, called Free Basics, reports The Times of...
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An ex-Google employee explains the biggest challenges facing the company in...
Despite having over 90% smartphone market share in India, Google is lacking a big consumer app in the country.Facebook has WhatsApp (and Messenger), both of which are massive in India, and Google is...
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Amazon has its sights set on a 'trillion-dollar market' — and is using...
Amazon has its sights set on India, the next "trillion-dollar market," according to Fortune. Diego Piacentini, the Amazon executive in charge of the company's operations in Asia and Europe, told...
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An ex-Google employee explains the biggest challenges facing the company in...
Despite having over 90% smartphone market share in India, Google is lacking a big consumer app in the country.Facebook has WhatsApp (and Messenger), both of which are massive in India, and Google seems...
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Microsoft's plan to use TV to bring internet to India could have hit a...
Microsoft's plan to bring the internet to India using TV airwaves may have hit a roadblock, according to a report from The Economic Times. White Space, the name Microsoft has given the project, uses...
View ArticleDozens of whales have mysteriously washed up on the shores of India
Potentially more than 100 whales have washed up in Southern India and scientists are baffled at what could have caused it.Produced By Matt Johnston. Video courtesy of Associated Press and Caters News....
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Why India is the next 'ecommerce battleground'
A handful of major US tech companies will be abuzz about India this year. Facebook will persist in battling net neutrality debates to continue its "Free Basics" internet program there. Google will try...
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