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Google launches health cards with Apollo Hospitals

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Google has launched health cards in India today in collaboration with Apollo Hospitals . Now, information on over 400 health conditions can be searched quickly and easily in Hindi as well as English languages. In the long run, Google plans to launch it in Indic languages too. These Health Cards have been integrated into the Google Knowledge graph which powers the search experience in India. The heath cards will be available on Google search on android, iOS phones and tablets, mobiles and desktop browsers. Google worked with Apollo Hospitals, Columbia Asia Hospital and many other hospitals to review the content.  Also, it consulted AIIMS and ASHAs to ensure the information on the cards is useful and accessible.... See More

Google and TechHub collaborate, Indian start-ups to benefit

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To bring opportunities to more than 700 start-ups of TechHub across the globe, Google and TechHub have announced their global partnership. David Grunwald, Google for Entrepreneurs’ Head of EMEA Partnerships, said, “We are excited to expand our work with TechHub beyond Google for Entrepreneurs’s Campus network, where we have collaborated successfully over a number of years. TechHub’s ‘community first’ values and their focus on supporting founders and start-ups with education and programmes align perfectly with the goals of Google for Entrepreneurs.”... See More

Google eyeing to open ‪Internet‬ for everyone in India

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At “Google for   India ”, CEO Sundar Pichai discussed about providing more access to the Internet, making Google tools work for more people, and empowering Indians to build the Internet they need. He has also announced RailTel   Wi-Fi   launch date of January 2016, an expanded Hyderabad campus, and training of two million new Android developers over the next three years that make it easier for Indian developers to build solutions to local problems. “Mobile has proven to be a great equalizer, giving access to computing to a billion more people and counting , with an idea open Internet for everyone,” Pichai laid out Google’s three-step approach   to promoting the Internet in India, and his team, many of them visiting from the U.S, talked to the concrete steps Google has taken to help solve the current challenges. First, Google aims to give people in India and other developing countries better access to the full Internet through better connectivity and high-...

Silicon Valley eyes India with keen interest

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Touted as the first-ever visit by an Indian Prime Minster to the Facebook Headquarters, Modi’s visit has raised quite an eyebrow. The fact that top tech bosses of the Silicon Valley are taking keen interest in meeting Prime Minister Narendra Modi and discussing about his Digital India initiative is something that is being talked about. The key Indian entrepreneurs and academicians from the USA cite several reasons as to why this sudden spotlight on Modi has garnered so much interest. One of the entrepreneurs warned that the Indian telecom companies might be staring at trouble if companies such as Google and Facebook succeed in their ambitious projects to provide Internet access all over the world, including India. The tech industry has learned from mistakes made by taxi-hailing company Uber and wants to make sure governments don’t turn in adversaries when traditional industries are disrupted, he furthe...