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India: Google, Facebook remove ‘offensive’ web pages

By Asian Correspondent Tue, Feb 07, 2012 11:56AM UTC View Comments

NEW DELHI (AP) — Google India has removed web pages deemed offensive to Indian political and religious leaders to comply with a court case that has raised censorship fears in the world’s largest democracy, media reported Monday. The action follows weeks of intense government pressure for 22 Internet giants to remove photographs, videos or text...

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Social Media in India [infographic]

By Sriram Vadlamani Fri, Aug 26, 2011 6:42AM UTC View Comments

India is taking to social media like bees to honey. More than 33 million Indian users are using different social media sites with 45,000 new users added every day. Facebook has seen a meteoric rise in the past six months with a 50% growth. Orkut still has 28 million users in India. India was the...

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Does India love Google too much?

By Sriram Vadlamani Mon, Aug 01, 2011 6:27PM UTC View Comments

Google has a strong presence in India. It is the default search engine everywhere and is extremely popular in India. Google’s YouTube is India’s new multiplex. Google’s new social networking site, Google+, is India’s newest and hottest HangOut. Google’s Gmail is the online nervous system for more than half of India’s Internet users. Does that mean,...

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India: Use Google+ with just SMS

By Sriram Vadlamani Tue, Jul 12, 2011 12:10PM UTC View Comments

Google+, the new social phenomenon from Google which already has 4.5 million users hooked, just got niftier. In addition to its extremely usable website, a mobile website, and Android app, Google+ has gone one step further and introduced text messaging (SMS) integration. SMS integration works for folks in the US and India. Tell you what,...

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