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Apple will launch the iPhone 6S in India on Friday, and thanks to a strong dollar and weak rupee, the cheapest model will be $300 more expensive than in the U.S.

A senior Facebook official defended the company's controversial Internet.org program in India, saying it wasn't exclusive, according to the Times of India.

India's smartphone-led Internet penetration is allowing consumers to increasingly transact online.

Ridesharing is a hotly contested business in Asia where SoftBank-backed local competitors are taking on California's Uber.

Despite India's physical infrastructure woes, no one wants to be left out of a potential opportunity offered up by the country's fast-growing economy.

India's efforts to connect its remotest villages through mobile phones and broadband Internet is under way.

India's potential as a market across sectors, from smartphones to solar energy, is drawing global investors.

Online access could change the lives of millions in India, but supporters of an independent Internet there say large companies are seeking to control it.

Chinese vendors like Xiaomi and Lenovo are targeting the subcontinent with slick, low-cost handsets.

"It's one more step towards connecting the whole world,” Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg wrote in an online post.

U.S. heavyweights take opposing views on how the Internet should evolve in one of the world's fastest-growing, but most impoverished, tech markets.

The country's wireless carriers are expected to roll out a host of new services, but prices for the average consumer could increase sharply.

Demand for smartphones and better data services in emerging markets is driving sales at companies such as China's Huawei Technology.

Huawei's growing global business might be powered by software from India where the company just opened its biggest overseas R&D facility.

As one of the world's fastest-growing smartphone markets, Africa is seeing a rise in demand for gray-market smartphones.

India's rapidly growing smartphone market is seeing China's handset makers compete more aggressively than ever, with 4G handsets.

More Indians than ever before are likely to tap into the Internet in 2015, with the help of their smartphones.

Sequoia Capital, one of Silicon Valley's best-known venture capital firms, is one of the investors in the online mobile-recharge provider.

HIke, India's rival to Facebook's Whatsapp, has raised $65 million from Tiger Global, Bharti Softbank

Narendra Modi, in his first Independence Day Speech, raised social issues ailing the country such as rural sanitation and female education.

Facebook's free Internet project, while helping struggling African communities, also hopes to enlist new users.