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What Google got right in India, and how Facebook's plan went awry

Google keeps making mega announcements in the country, while Facebook stumbles, reports Tech in Asia

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Sundar Pichai

Nivedita Bhattacharjee
That Google loves India has been obvious over and over in the past few years. If love is too strong a word, the company certainly sees the world’s fastest growing economy as a huge investment opportunity.

The latest Mary Meeker’s Internet Trends report says the number of internet users in India grew 40 percent in 2015 to 277 million. It is the only country where the growth rate of internet users in 2015 was higher than that in the previous year. 

Those stats make it is easy to see why every major tech company in the world, including the other giant, Facebook,

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