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Amazon launches Prime service in India, offering speedy shipping to members

Amazon Prime has arrived in India. Amazon today launched its membership program to customers across more than 100 cities in India, offering free… Read More

Amazon goes Bollywood, plans to spend $300M on original Prime Video content in India, report says

Amazon plans to spend approximately $300 million to fund original movies and series in India, as part of its $3 billion… Read More

Amazon Web Services and Salesforce expanding in India in response to rising cloud demand

Part of the $3 billion that Amazon earlier this week pledged to invest in India will go toward building an AWS data… Read More

Amazon to pour an additional $3B in India operations, bringing total investment to $5B

Amazon is doubling down — even more than that, actually — in India. Reuters reported Tuesday evening that Amazon will invest… Read More

India’s space shuttle prototype executes test flight and makes a splash landing

India’s space agency says it put its winged space shuttle prototype, known as the RLV-TD, through a successful first test flight today.… Read More

How this Twitter VP’s grandmother shaped her perspective on the modern world of tech

Nandini Ramani is vice president of engineering at Twitter, but despite her high-ranking position, she says it hasn’t gotten easier to be… Read More

Amazon voted India’s most trusted web store as retailer readies to vie for market with Alibaba

Consumers in India trust Amazon’s brand more than any other web retailer, according to a survey of 2,500 people there.… Read More

Killed by a meteorite? Indian bus driver V. Kamaraj’s death may be a first

Death by meteorite is a common theme in science-fiction movies, but in real life, the chances of being done in by a falling… Read More

India says Facebook’s Free Basics violates net neutrality rules

India’s government has banned Facebook’s Free Basics plan, saying it violated the country’s view of Net Neutrality, according to the… Read More

Interview: Indian Ambassador to the U.S. talks startups, Amazon, H1B visas, and more

India is becoming a key market for U.S.-based technology companies, while at the same time, Indian companies are investing more… Read More

Microsoft, Google, Facebook and others cater to India’s Prime Minister during Silicon Valley visit

View image | gettyimages.com Silicon Valley tech leaders rolled out the red carpet for Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi this weekend,… Read More

Alibaba and others back Amazon rival Snapdeal to enter India’s growing e-commerce market

Snapdeal reportedly has raised $500 million to take on one of the fastest growing e-commerce markets in the world. The company, which… Read More

Podcast

GeekWire Radio: ‘Geek Heresy’ with former Microsoft researcher Kentaro Toyama

This week on the GeekWire radio show: A conversation with Kentaro Toyama, the author of “Geek Heresy: Rescuing Social Change… Read More

Amazon reportedly in talks to buy Indian retailer Jabong

Amazon has finished its first round of acquisition talks with Jabong, an Indian online lifestyle retail site, according to a… Read More

Jeff Bezos on Amazon’s explosive growth in India, mediocre Fire phone reviews, and drone deliveries

Here’s something you don’t see everyday: Jeff Bezos dressed in full Indian attire, riding around on a truck and waving a $2 billion check in his hand.… Read More

Cray to provide XC30 supercomputers in India

Cray announced today that it will provide the Tata Institute for Fundamental Research in Mumbai with one of its XC30… Read More

Gates Foundation awards grants to Indian researchers to invent better toilets

Six new grantees from India have joined the ranks of people who the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation believes could… Read More

Nokia says Indian tax dispute won’t stop Microsoft deal

While a tax dispute in India over Nokia’s manufacturing plant in Chennai continues to rage, the company says it won’t… Read More

As Amazon enters India, rival Flipkart raises $200 million

Amazon recently stepped into the e-commerce arena in India, and now one of its biggest rivals is raising more cash.… Read More

Amazon opens doors on marketplace in India

People in India searching for books and movies online have a new option available to them. Amazon has quietly launched… Read More

Amazon fulfillment centers planned for India, S. Carolina

Amazon.com is expanding aggressively overseas, and the latest example comes via Reuters which reports that the giant Seattle online retailer… Read More

Next up for Amazon.com … India?

One of the overlooked tidbits in Amazon.com’s recent quarterly earnings report is that North American sales continue to grow at… Read More