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Google’s India AI hub cleared for 2.51GW, not 1GW, the Guardian reports

Google’s $15bn AI datacentre project in Andhra Pradesh has state environmental clearance for 2.51GW of capacity, more than double the 1GW announced, according to clearance papers seen by the Guardian. Hannah Ellis-Petersen and Aakash Hassan reported the story from Tarluvada, one of the villages where the project is being built. The Guardian said 2.51GW is roughly […]

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Amazon to invest $3bn in Indian quick commerce by 2030, Reuters reports

Amazon will spend $3bn to grow its quick-commerce business in India by 2030, Reuters reported on Thursday, citing two people who know the plans directly. Quick commerce is the term for app orders that reach shoppers within minutes. Amazon declined to comment on the figures. It did say, however, that its quick-commerce arm had passed $1bn in annualised […]

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Nexperia will make chips in India with Tata as it splits from Wingtech

“We are thrilled to partner with Nexperia for manufacturing their products at our semiconductor facilities in Dholera and Jagiroad,” said Randhir Thakur, chief executive of Tata Electronics. The Dutch chipmaker and the Indian manufacturer announced a partnership on Thursday covering chip production and packaging in India. They issued the joint statement from Nijmegen and New […]

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Apple Pay is heading to India next month with Axis Bank first, Reuters reports

Apple Pay is expected to launch in India next month, beginning with credit cards issued by Axis Bank, three people familiar with the plans told Reuters. Apple declined to comment. So, in effect, did everybody else. The service will widen to other lenders through separate bank-by-bank agreements, the pattern Apple has followed in other markets, […]

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India’s fraud office recommends a detailed investigation into Xiaomi’s local business

India’s Serious Fraud Investigation Office has recommended a detailed investigation into Xiaomi’s business in the country, according to an internal document examining how money moved through the company’s Indian operations and whether it obtained the approvals required for Chinese investment. The document was drafted in May and reviewed by Reuters, which reported its contents on […]

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Google-backed Pixxel raises $100M in India’s largest space tech round

Pixxel, the Indian company that has spent six years arguing that Earth observation is worth doing in colours the human eye cannot see, has raised $100M in a Series C round led by Singapore’s state investor Temasek and the London-listed Seraphim Space Investment Trust. It is the largest single round any Indian space technology company […]

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Ultrahuman raised $70m to turn its ring into a computer

Ultrahuman announced a $70m funding round at IFA in Berlin last week, with Qualcomm’s venture arm among the backers. The Indian company makes smart rings. What it wants to build next is a ring that stops being a tracker. TechCrunch’s Jagmeet Singh reported the round first, with an interview with founder and chief executive Mohit […]

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Meta removes fraud app ads in India, after being asked twice

Meta removed dozens of advertisements for apps that presented themselves as pornography but actually functioned as banking malware, after the Indian government issued an advisory. Reuters then found at least 39 more of the ads still running and reported on Monday that Meta removed those as well after being asked about them. The sequence is […]

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