Journalism of Courage
Google CEO Sundar Pichai on Wednesday underlined the search giant’s intention to push for more internet adoption in India. Read more here (Source: Photo by Renuka Puri)
Google announced free Wi-Fi in 100 railway stations as promised to Prime Minister Narendra Modi on his visit to Silicon Valley earlier this year. Mumbai Central will be the first to get Wi-Fi access. Read more here (Source: Photo by Renuka Puri)
Google CEO also announced plans to launch a “huge new” campus in Hyderabad and to recruit more Indians for business development. Read more here (Source: Photo by Renuka Puri)
Google also announced a special Tap to translate feature for Android, where users will be able to translate using the Translate all from English to Hindi across android on any app. The feature will roll out by early 2016. Read more here (Source: Photo by Renuka Puri)
Google Search VP Tamar Yehoshua said 50 per cent of Indian internet users were on 2G networks, while those on 3G were complaining of 2G-like speeds. It plans to fix that with Google AMP pages. Read more here (Source: Photo by Renuka Puri)
Google will introduce a pause buffer feature allowing users to pause video, leave it to buffer, even leave the app or site and let it continue buffering, said Eyal Manor, Vice-President of Engineering for YouTube. Read more here (Source: Photo by Renuka Puri)
