Moody's Ratings has slashed India's economic growth projections for the current fiscal to 6%, from 6.8% earlier. The credit ratings agency said the US-Israeli war against Iran and its impact on the global energy market will weigh on India's growth momentum and heighten inflation risks.
Thousands of Oracle employees in India have received layoff notices as part of what the company described as a 'reduction in force and other terminations.' Indian outlets said between 10,000 and 12,000 employees in the country could be affected.
The UK digital entertainment sector hit £13.5 billion in revenue in 2025, reflecting a 7.1% year-over-year growth, significantly outpacing the general economy's growth rate of 1.3%.
The banking services on the Fi app will soon be discontinued; however, your Savings Account with Federal Bank remains active and fully operational. Your funds remain completely safe and accessible at all times. The company said in the email, reviewed by TechCrunch.
We had not onboarded Google because we first wanted RCS messages to be routed through the Airtel spam filter. Under the partnership, Airtel's network intelligence will be combined with Google's RCS platform to enable real-time checks on business messaging, including sender verification, spam detection, and enforcement of users' do-not-disturb preferences.
Pandemic-driven lockdowns exposed many people in India to PCs for the first time, expanding the country's PC userbase and creating demand for upgrades as those devices age. Growing digitization, rising PC adoption among startups and small businesses, and wider availability of devices in smaller cities have also supported demand.
Inspired by '70s assembly lines and workshops, the duo-floor space offers personalized service to the brand's range of smartphones and audio products, and comes with studio space for social media content creators. It also features a community hangout zone with vending machines, claw games and conveyor belt displays, and a coffee shop in collaboration with Practically SoBar. The brand said the store will also host meetups and collaborations with local creators in the future, and offer Nothing brand merch.
Speaking on the sidelines of the World Economic Forum 2026, India's IT Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw is now claiming that the country will soon have its own smartphone brand (or brands, plural), and promises the Indian government has done all the "homework" required for such an endeavor. This brand (or these brands, it's unclear if we're talking about one or more) will be launched within the next 12 to 18 months and will be "global".
The company today issued a brief release stating that it will soon be opening its first global flagship store, which will be located in India. Aside from that, there is no mention of date and exact location for this store. The only other information in this release is a somewhat cryptic image of what looks like it could be a blade sign placed outside the store. The sign shows a blue damselfly, which points to a return to using bugs as mascots by the company.
India became the world's largest market for generative AI app downloads in 2025, according to market intelligence firm Sensor Tower, widening its lead over the U.S. as installs jumped 207% year-over-year. Companies including OpenAI, Google, and Perplexity rolled out extended free premium offers to accelerate user growth in the price sensitive market.
We wanted to create a fun space. It is kind of inspired by all the parts that are related to the brand. For instance, the factory: if you buy a product, there's like a production line where the product comes out. We also show machines where phones go through testing, like USB port testing or water resistance testing. So we just wanted to bring that world together,
With an eye toward luring more AI investment to the country, India is hosting a four-day AI Impact Summit this week that will be attended by executives from major AI labs and Big Tech, including OpenAI, Anthropic, Nvidia, Microsoft, Google, and Cloudflare, as well as heads of state. The event, which expects 250,000 visitors, will see Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei, Reliance Chairman Mukesh Ambani, and Google DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis in attendance.
As the global race to build AI infrastructure accelerates, India has offered foreign cloud providers zero taxes through 2047 on services sold outside the country if they run those workloads from Indian data centers - a bid to attract the next wave of AI computing investment, even as power shortages and water stress threaten expansion in the South Asian nation.
Jio launched its mobile network in 2016 and within half a year won 100 million subscribers by offering plans that included unlimited data at prices that significantly undercut competitors. It later introduced its own handsets, some that cost around $12, which helped it to become India's number one telco three years after launch. It later cemented its position with a $27 smartphone created with help from Google, a rapid 5G rollout, and cheap subscriptions that bundle streamed content with carriage.
It's gonna be something like 10 times the impact of the Industrial Revolution, but happening at 10 times the speed, probably unfolding in a matter of a decade rather than a century,
Now platforms have three hours to remove content requested by authorities. Previously, they had a 36-hour window to take down such content. Under India's IT rules, authorities can order the removal of content deemed illegal under any of its laws, including those related to national security and public order. India's new rules require labelling of AI content It will also be mandatory for platforms like Instagram, TikTok, Facebook and YouTube to clearly label what the government calls "synthetically generated information."
