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Companies

ShareChat finds its niche with local languages

ShareChat has the potential to do well given the Indic language content gap on social media

12 min read3 May 2017
Tech-news

Apple’s Siri learns Shanghainese as voice assistants race to cover languages

There is at least one thing Apple's Siri can do and other assistants cannot: speak 21 languages localized for 36 countries

3 min read9 Mar 2017
Politics

Aspirations driving India’s Internet user base

Easy, cheaper access to smartphones is fuelling a shift in India's Internet user base towards the rural demography

3 min read13 May 2015
Industry

Giving the Internet a local language flavour

Sensing a business opportunity, start-ups have begun providing software solutions to help firms and individuals access content in local languages

5 min read4 Mar 2015
Companies

Verse Innovation raises over Rs100 crore from Sequoia and others

Verse Innovation CEO Virendra Gupta says the funds will be used for product development, to build engineering teams and for tools for monetizing its products

1 min read22 Sep 2014
Industry

E-tailers look to advertise in local languages

With a significant chunk of sales coming from non-metros, retailers tap potential customers via vernacular media

4 min read12 Aug 2014
Opinion

Need more local language content for Internet to bloom in India

While local languages could hold the key to the growth in numbers, the task is easier said than done

3 min read10 Mar 2014

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