Google Considers India Mobile Market

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Acknowledging India as a major IT hub in the world, Google has decided to undertake major research works in the country. Speaking to the IIT Kanpur alumnus Umang Gupta, Google CEO Eric Schmidt, asserted the US-based searching company would scale up research in India in the coming years.

Explaining mobiles phones are the biggest opportunity for the company, Schmidt commented, "Every analysis had shown that the mobile phone was the 'simplest, biggest space for us' because prices were falling dramatically, people were carrying them all the time, and there’s so much one could do with a cellphone. We are trying to find out what are the applications you can put on the phones—there’s gaming, e-commerce."

He continued, "The potential was endless. In this context, India is a very important market because there’s a huge usage of mobile phones.”

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Google, Yahoo! Line Up For Research In India » Unofficial SEO Blog - Search Engine Information, much before it’s official. Says:
December 29th, 2006 at 02:48
[...] We reported yesterday that Google is looking forward to carry out major research work in India. So how can Yahoo! sit silent. According to Business Standard, Yahoo! is setting up a research lab in Bangalore, the leading IT hub of India. Confirming this, Prabhakar Raghavan, head of Yahoo! Research notes, "The researchers currently we have are extremely talented and work on state-of-the-art technologies. The scientists we are looking to hire are the ones who define start-of-the-art next generation technologies." Yahoo!, with strong base in India and a R&D center in Bangalore, started the preliminary works for the establishment of hie-tech lab in the city. The company is now looking for talented researchers. It would be Yahoo!'s seventh international lab. [...]