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India’s Modi spoofed over doctored photos of Chennai flood visit

December 4, 2015 publisher against-privacy, became-the-butt, from-expressing, india, jeremy-wagstaff, kong-based, militant-groups, narendra-modi, nsa, peering-through, press, prime-minister, speaks-during, strongest

Prime Minister Narendra Modi became the butt of online jokes on Friday when it turned out an official photo showing him surveying flood damage in southern India through a helicopter window had been doctored. The picture showed Modi peering through the round window at a dramatic view of flooded city streets in Chennai, capital of Tamil Nadu state, after the strongest rains in a century there killed more than 280 people in a month and displaced thousands of residents. Social media lit up with users accusing the official Press Information Bureau (PIB) of faking the scene.

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Internet gap hinders small firms in poor countries, study shows

October 14, 2015 admin india, internet, internet-cable, its-advertisers, miles, monthly-average, new-advertising, organization, picture, revenue-per, san, server-room, united, united-nations, world-trade

By Tom Miles GENEVA (Reuters) – A study of small and medium-sized businesses around the world has found that one of the main reasons they underperform – especially in poorer countries – is that they make too little use of the Internet. Small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in Brazil are three times less productive than big firms there while those in India are 10 times less productive

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Crowd chants ‘Modi, Modi’ as India PM winds up Silicon Valley tour

September 28, 2015September 29, 2015 admin contained-horse, formats-tracked, india, mobile, san, silicon, took-the-stage, two-frozen

By Yasmeen Abutaleb SAN JOSE, California (Reuters) – Lights flashed and chants of “Modi, Modi” filled the 18,000-seat sports arena in San Jose, California, on Sunday as the Indian premier took the stage for the final event of his Silicon Valley tour, marked by sporadic protests over his human rights record.

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Facebook, eyeing TV dollars, rolls out new ad products

September 28, 2015September 29, 2015 creative better-spent, dollars, india, million-active, new-advertising, san, silicon, spent-on-mobile, sunday, time-on-their, took-the-stage, user-social

By Yasmeen Abutaleb SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – Facebook Inc introduced a slate of new advertising products on Sunday, most of which are aimed at luring television advertisers onto the 1.5-billion user social network. Facebook is trying to convince advertisers, especially those who use video, that their dollars will be better spent on mobile platforms rather than on TV as users, especially millennials, spend more time on their phones than watching television

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Dutch website says it will trigger referendum on EU-Ukraine ties

September 27, 2015September 29, 2015 publisher dutch, europe, held-during, india, netherlands, time-on-their, user-social, website-said

By Thomas Escritt AMSTERDAM (Reuters) – A Dutch website said on Sunday it had garnered enough signatures to force the Netherlands to hold a non-binding referendum on the EU’s association agreement with Ukraine, in a move meant to signal popular dissatisfaction with Dutch European policy. “YOU did it, out of love for democracy in the Netherlands and Europe, and to send a signal to The Hague and Brussels,” the website told its readers in a post on Sunday evening. Any referendum is likely to be held during the Dutch presidency of the European Union, which starts in January.

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India’s Modi set to woo tech companies in Silicon Valley

September 26, 2015September 29, 2015 publisher apple, commission, felony-charge, florida, india, mayor-michael, prime-minister, silicon-valley, stephanie-moore, united, united-states, usa, wildlife

By Yasmeen Abutaleb SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi has documented his push to bring U.S. investments and jobs back to India on his Facebook and Twitter pages since landing in the United States this week, posting photos with the likes of former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg and group shots with Fortune 500 CEOs.

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BlackBerry devices future rides on fortunes of new Android phone: CEO

September 25, 2015September 29, 2015 publisher also-reported, apple, commission, felony-charge, florida, india, said-on-friday, silicon-valley, wildlife

By Euan Rocha WATERLOO, Ontario (Reuters) – BlackBerry Ltd’s decision to roll out a smartphone powered by Google’s Android platform was hotly debated internally but the gamble is necessary to test whether the company’s handset business is viable, Chief Executive John Chen said on Friday. Waterloo, Ontario-based BlackBerry confirmed it planned to introduce an Android smartphone later this year, even as it also reported weaker-than-expected quarterly results.

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Instagram opens up to advertisers worldwide

September 9, 2015 admin china, eight-countries, impact-on-sales, india, instagram, major-selling, negative-impact, photo, spain, zhejiang

By Yasmeen Abutaleb SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – Instagram opened its platform to most advertisers across the globe on Wednesday as the photo-sharing app seeks to make more money and compete with popular rivals such as Snapchat.

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U.S. presidential hopeful’s ‘done with Indian-American’ remark prompts Twitter storm

June 25, 2015 creative alibaba-group, campaign, dislikes-being, his-campaign, illustration, india, jindal, kenner, origin, remained-little, stock-exchange, their-origin, warner, wednesday

Louisiana Governor and U.S. presidential candidate Bobby Jindal caused a Twitter storm of jokes and insults in India on Thursday after he said he dislikes being called an Indian-American. Republican Jindal is the first person of Indian origin to join the U.S

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India IT behemoths revamp culture to attract young talent, battle start-ups

June 17, 2015 creative 147-billion, 1990s, binary-code, code-on-man, holding-coding, india, indian, man-holding, outsourcing, the-outsourcing, treasury, twitter

By Nivedita Bhattacharjee MUMBAI (Reuters) – India’s oldest and most distinguished IT firms are doing what would have been almost sacrilegious a few years ago – holding coding marathons to develop innovative fixes and deploying “commando” units to resolve clients’ IT woes within hours. Infosys , Wipro and other Indian IT giants, which rose to prominence during the outsourcing boom in the 1990s and 2000s, have struggled to keep pace with mushrooming start-ups. Client demands are similarly changing in India’s $147 billion IT outsourcing industry.

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