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Google’s $15B India AI Bet: First-Ever AI Hub Launched in Vizag – Market Reacts & Experts Weigh In

Google’s Record AI Investment and India Hub On Oct 14, 2025, Google Cloud CEO Thomas Kurian and Indian officials unveiled Google’s first AI hub in India – a massive investment of about $15 billion over five years blog.google investing.com. Google calls it its “largest investment in India to date” blog.google. The centerpiece is a 1‑gigawatt data center campus in Visakhapatnam, planned to scale to multiple gigawatts. This will be backed by new power lines, clean energy plants, and a major subsea cable landing station. In Kurian’s words, this will be “the largest AI hub that we are going to be investing

14 October 2025

HMD Touch 4G: Tiny ‘Hybrid Phone’ Blends Nokia-Era Simplicity With 4G Smarts in India

Bridging Feature Phones and Smartphones HMD is marketing the Touch 4G as a bridge between basic phones and full smartphones – hence the “hybrid” label gadgets360.com gadgets360.com. In practice, it means users get some smartphone-like functionality (touchscreen UI, internet apps, video calling) while retaining the simplicity, affordability, and stamina of a classic feature phone. “The line between smartphone and feature phone just got a bit smudgy,” HMD quips in its promo, highlighting that Touch 4G “combines the best of both worlds” hmd.com hmd.com. Crucially, the Touch 4G does not run Android or support the vast app ecosystems of Google or Apple. Instead, it

7 October 2025

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India’s ‘Swadeshi’ Chat App Arattai Soars to #1, Leaves WhatsApp Reeling – Can It Keep the Momentum?

India Today reports that Arattai “raced to the top spot in app stores, surpassing WhatsApp” indiatoday.in. In late September 2025 the Chennai‑based Zoho quietly saw its years‑old chat app shoot up the Google and Apple rankings, driven by a wave of patriotic downloads and social media buzz. As Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan noted on X (formerly Twitter), Arattai is “free, easy-to-use, secure, [and] safe” and fully developed in India hindustantimes.com – echoing Prime Minister Modi’s call to back “Swadeshi” tech. Pradhan’s post explicitly urged citizens to switch to Indian messaging tools hindustantimes.com economictimes.indiatimes.com, giving Arattai a major visibility boost. Even

28 September 2025

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