Millions of Hindi speakers across India and the rest of the world have a reason to cheer: Google News is now available in Hindi.Google News gathers news stories from the various Hindi news sources on the web and presents a ranked one-page summary with all the links to your favourite news sources in the various sections. One of the interesting challenges we faced in this edition was the fact that not all our Hindi news sources are in UTF-8 format.

Google has already gone on record that India is going to be a country to watch over the next few years. Now it has literally put its money, where its mouth is, and invested in two early stage Indian VC funds, Seedfund and Erasmic.
“While the rush of large amounts of venture capital into India is well-documented, very little of this trickles down to small firms - the early-stage startups

Red Herring reports that Google is using Seedfund.com to spread start up funds to new tech companies in India.

The article can be found here.

The Business Standard of India reported that Yahoo! was opening a research lab in Bangalore, India.

Yahoo is also starting their “Big Thinkers” lectures in India in January 2007.

Leading Indian telco, Bharti Airtel has announced a strategic partnership with Google to offer mobile search in India. Google will incorporate mobile ads through its Adwords platform.

The President of Bharti Airtel Ltd explains,

“In India, mobile is fast outgrowing …

Foxnews reports that an organisation known as “DotAsia Organization Ltd” has had its application to run domain names in asian languages under the top level domain ‘.asia’ approved by the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers.

The domains will cover …

According to the TimesOfIndia, Google is having problems finding the right employees in India.

Middle management seems to be an area Google has troubles finding suitable employees in the India area.

None other than Google CEO, Eric Schmidt, has been reported by Silicon India as saying that India will be the internet’s biggest market in 5 - 10 years. He also believes that Hindi, not Hispanic, could become one of …

The Pew Global Attitudes Project has released a report illustrating the rapid growth of internet use globally. Much of this growth can be put down to more women and over 50’s coming online across Western Europe.

The report also contains …

A new search engine www.terrawiz.com has been launched to search for the websites with contents relevant to India. The search engine has also a directory with about 15 generic subjects and also information related to the individual states of …

Speaking at the eyefortravel Sales and Marketing in Travel Europe conference in Berlin, Jan Oetjen, Travelocity’s managing director Germany, said that the search engine revenues would be cut following the likely consolidation in the travel industry. …

According to a research report published in August 2001 by Gartner’s Dataquest, the country which can expect the highest growth rates in the Asia-Pacific region was India. From 2001 to 2005, Dataquest expected India to enjoy average subscriber growth …

The scale of online business development in India is in no way a great achievement in a country with a 1 billion population - but combined they make India an attractive market for global marketers - with 44 million mobile …

India’s population is exceeding 1 billion out of which Internet Users are nearly 26 million. More than 50% of the users are between age group 20-40.. With the recent reduction in cost and easier availability of Broadband (min 256 kbps) …

Juxt Consult - an Indian research agency - has published a set of 5 reports on the Indian sub-continent - including one which shows that internet use in the sub-continent remains below 5% on average - but that’s still 22.7 …