india

India (official name: the Republic of India; Hindi: Bhārat Gaṇarājya) is a country in South Asia. It is the seventh-largest country by area, the second-most populous country, and the most populous democracy in the world. Bounded by the Indian Ocean on the south, the Arabian Sea on the southwest, and the Bay of Bengal on the southeast, it shares land borders with Pakistan to the west; China, Nepal, and Bhutan to the north; and Bangladesh and Myanmar to the east. In the Indian Ocean, India is in the vicinity of Sri Lanka and the Maldives; its Andaman and Nicobar Islands share a maritime border with Thailand and Indonesia.

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Paytm Tops 100M Downloads
Paytm Tops 100M Downloads
December 28, 2017  |  Payment Methods

India-based digital payments company Paytm announced Wednesday (Dec. 27) that it had surpassed the 100 million downloads mark on the Google Play Store. In a company blog...

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Bitcoin Daily: Regulators Ask Questions While Merchants Seize The Hype
Bitcoin Daily: Regulators Ask Questions While Merchants Seize The Hype
December 14, 2017  |  Bitcoin

Cryptocurrency bitcoin has had a whirlwind couple of months. It finished trading on Wednesday (Dec. 13) at a value of $16,835 per bitcoin, but agencies...

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India’s Bigbasket Getting Even Bigger With Alibaba Investment
India’s Bigbasket Getting Even Bigger With Alibaba Investment
December 08, 2017  |  Investments

India’s biggest online supermarket Bigbasket is about to get even bigger. Chinese eCommerce giant Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. has said it will invest $200 million...

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Indifi Targets B2B Payments Lag With New Financing Tool For Startups
Indifi Targets B2B Payments Lag With New Financing Tool For Startups
December 06, 2017  |  B2B Payments

India-based alternative lender Indifi Technologies is targeting B2B startups with its latest financing service. According to news from Business Standard on Tuesday (Dec. 5), Indifi is...

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Eyeing India’s Connectivity, And The Next Billion Users, Google Gets Go-ing
Eyeing India’s Connectivity, And The Next Billion Users, Google Gets Go-ing
December 05, 2017  |  Google

In a world where data and the internet go hand in hand — where commerce is done increasingly via mobile means — Google unveiled its plan to...

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Muted Activity Marks Chinese Investment Into November’s End
Muted Activity Marks Chinese Investment Into November’s End
December 01, 2017  |  International

Through the end of Thanksgiving week in the United States, investment activity in China was marked by a few headlines tied to deals of a...

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Infosys Finacle Offers Blockchain Trade Finance Tool To India FIs
Infosys Finacle Offers Blockchain Trade Finance Tool To India FIs
November 30, 2017  |  B2B Payments

Infosys Finacle is rolling out a blockchain-based solution for bank clients — the latest in a string of distributed ledger technology solutions launching in the...

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Paytm Says On Track To Be World’s Biggest Digital Bank
Paytm Says On Track To Be World’s Biggest Digital Bank
November 29, 2017  |  Banking

India-based Paytm Payments Bank not only wants to become the world’s largest digital bank, but also to evolve into a financial services company providing a...

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Axis Bank Launches Global, Real-Time Payment Service With Ripple
Axis Bank Launches Global, Real-Time Payment Service With Ripple
November 28, 2017  |  B2B Payments

India’s Axis Bank has launched its instant, cross-border payments solution less than a year after announcing a collaboration with blockchain technology firm Ripple. The bank...

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