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Billionaire Ambani taps Google, Meta to build India’s AI backbone

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Mukesh Ambani, India’s richest man and chairman of Reliance Industries, has unveiled an ambitious plan to build the country’s AI backbone through a new subsidiary — starting with strategic partnerships with Google Cloud and Meta. At the company’s 48th annual general meeting on Friday, Ambani launched a new venture called Reliance Intelligence, a subsidiary of […]

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India’s richest man wants to turn every TV into a PC

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Jio Platforms, the digital arm of Indian conglomerate Reliance Industries, has launched a virtual desktop service for set-top box users. This means that India’s richest man, Reliance’s chairman Mukesh Ambani, hopes to turn millions of TVs in the world’s most populous country into PCs. Called JioPC, the service offers a cloud-based PC experience through Jio’s

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India’s Reliance targets 2G users with $13 4G phones offering streaming, payments

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Reliance’s digital arm, Jio Platforms, has launched two new 4G-enabled handsets that offer access to live TV, music and video streaming as well as host the ability to make digital payments – all for a price tag of 1099 rupees ($13). The JioBharat V3 and JioBharat V4, successors to last year’s JioBharat model, feature 1.77-inch

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Jio partners with Taiwan’s MediaTek to tap into two-wheeler EV market

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India conglomerate Jio has partnered with Taiwanese fabless semiconductor giant MediaTek to supply the booming electric scooter market with digital dashboards. The partnership, which was announced Thursday at an industry event in New Delhi, will bring chips supplied by MediaTek and an Android-based operating system along with hardware developed by Jio to electric scooters in

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India clings to cheap feature phones as brands struggle to tap new smartphone buyers

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India, the world’s second-largest smartphone market after China with around 750 million users, is struggling to get new smartphone buyers, as the average person in the country finds it hard to afford a brand-new smartphone. Instead of switching to a new smartphone, millions of Indian consumers prefer to continue with their existing feature phones or

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