<story><title>Google to Invest $10B in India</title><url>https://techcrunch.com/2020/07/13/google-to-invest-10-billion-in-india/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>amrrs</author><text>There&amp;#x27;s been a recent surge in American companies investing in India primarily through Reliance Jio (owned by Mukhesh Ambani who&amp;#x27;s got a good connect with the current ruling Government). It&amp;#x27;s been spiking since the Anti-China sentiment led Buy and Use &amp;#x27;Made in India&amp;#x27; cries. Government has even asked eCom Flipkart and Amazon to display Country of Origin for each product.&lt;p&gt;With all these, This investment from Google seems another strategic move by an American company to say that we&amp;#x27;re truly concerned about Indian growth. So that their development centers here or products made for India don&amp;#x27;t get flagged as American.&lt;p&gt;Reference - Foxconn, Intel, Qualcomm, Facebook&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;economictimes.indiatimes.com&amp;#x2F;tech&amp;#x2F;hardware&amp;#x2F;apple-supplier-foxconn-to-invest-1-billion-in-india-sources&amp;#x2F;articleshow&amp;#x2F;76931415.cms&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;economictimes.indiatimes.com&amp;#x2F;tech&amp;#x2F;hardware&amp;#x2F;apple-sup...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;techcrunch.com&amp;#x2F;2020&amp;#x2F;07&amp;#x2F;12&amp;#x2F;qualcomm-to-invest-97-million-in-indias-reliance-jio-platforms&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;techcrunch.com&amp;#x2F;2020&amp;#x2F;07&amp;#x2F;12&amp;#x2F;qualcomm-to-invest-97-mill...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.cnet.com&amp;#x2F;news&amp;#x2F;after-facebook-intel-invests-into-indias-largest-telecom-jio&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.cnet.com&amp;#x2F;news&amp;#x2F;after-facebook-intel-invests-into-...&lt;/a&gt;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>screye</author><text>&amp;gt; Mukhesh Ambani who&amp;#x27;s got a good connect with the current ruling Government&lt;p&gt;To be fair, Mukesh has got good connections everywhere. He is India&amp;#x27;s most powerful person.&lt;p&gt;Amitabh and the Shahrukh (some of the world&amp;#x27;s richest actors, both half billionaires) both volunteered as servers at his daughters wedding as a show of appreciation. If a man can command the most powerful of his country to such level of willful subservience, then every Govt. will try to curry favor with him.&lt;p&gt;I will add, that while his intentions might be entirely selfish, the pace at which Jio was able to bring affordable 4G to the whole country is incredibly empowering for rural &amp;#x2F; small town India.&lt;p&gt;That being said, adding money to the pool of what is quickly becoming a monopoly is not a &amp;quot;fund to digitize America&amp;quot; as Pichai put it.</text></comment>
<story><title>Google to Invest $10B in India</title><url>https://techcrunch.com/2020/07/13/google-to-invest-10-billion-in-india/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>amrrs</author><text>There&amp;#x27;s been a recent surge in American companies investing in India primarily through Reliance Jio (owned by Mukhesh Ambani who&amp;#x27;s got a good connect with the current ruling Government). It&amp;#x27;s been spiking since the Anti-China sentiment led Buy and Use &amp;#x27;Made in India&amp;#x27; cries. Government has even asked eCom Flipkart and Amazon to display Country of Origin for each product.&lt;p&gt;With all these, This investment from Google seems another strategic move by an American company to say that we&amp;#x27;re truly concerned about Indian growth. So that their development centers here or products made for India don&amp;#x27;t get flagged as American.&lt;p&gt;Reference - Foxconn, Intel, Qualcomm, Facebook&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;economictimes.indiatimes.com&amp;#x2F;tech&amp;#x2F;hardware&amp;#x2F;apple-supplier-foxconn-to-invest-1-billion-in-india-sources&amp;#x2F;articleshow&amp;#x2F;76931415.cms&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;economictimes.indiatimes.com&amp;#x2F;tech&amp;#x2F;hardware&amp;#x2F;apple-sup...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;techcrunch.com&amp;#x2F;2020&amp;#x2F;07&amp;#x2F;12&amp;#x2F;qualcomm-to-invest-97-million-in-indias-reliance-jio-platforms&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;techcrunch.com&amp;#x2F;2020&amp;#x2F;07&amp;#x2F;12&amp;#x2F;qualcomm-to-invest-97-mill...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.cnet.com&amp;#x2F;news&amp;#x2F;after-facebook-intel-invests-into-indias-largest-telecom-jio&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.cnet.com&amp;#x2F;news&amp;#x2F;after-facebook-intel-invests-into-...&lt;/a&gt;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>frequentnapper</author><text>I don&amp;#x27;t see how it&amp;#x27;s not alarming for Indians that one key person&amp;#x2F;company connected to the govt is the sole beneficiary of incoming businesses into India.</text></comment>