For these Indian kids, coding is child's play.

For these Indian kids, coding is child's play.
Over the past few years, there has been a sharp increase in the number of kids taking to coding while still in school.
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There has been a sharp increase in the number of kids taking to coding while still in school
Parents are now comfortable with technology and end up exposing their children to it

Most tech cos have a slew of competitions to get children interested in science, technology, engineering and maths globally.

When 12-year-old Tanmay Bakshi from Toronto, Canada, addresses over 10,000 coders at IBM 's biggest-ever developer meet in Bengaluru on Thursday, he will join a growing list of Indian-origin kids making their presence felt across the global developer stage.
Earlier this week, nine-year-old Anvitha Vijay — who has several iOS applications to her credit — was invited as the youngest-ever participant at tech giant Apple's Worldwide Developers Conference in San Francisco.

Your search for Bollywood news on Google just got better.

India is a nation of movie buffs with 1 out of 10 mobile searches in the country being related to cinema, technology giant Google said today.
The US-based company has now developed a "rich, immersive experience" for its 'search' product to cater to user's queries related to Bollywood and Tollywood, including links to videos and movie screening timings.
"Google Search now gives local cinema enthusiasts an easy way to discover and explore everything they want to know about their favourite movies, stars, music, dialogues, actors and more," Google India marketing head Sapna Chadha said.
She added that the move was influenced by the huge number of queries Google receives in India on its platform related to cinema.
While Chadha did not disclose the number of queries, she said 1 in 10 searches in India through mobile devices are about cinema.
Google offers a similar search experience for cricket in India.

"Google has a long history of building products for India, and we wanted to make sure that when these millions of Indian cinema fans ask Google about their favourite films, actors or songs, they get a delightful, local experience," Chadha said.
Satyajeet Salgar, product manager (Search) at Google said when users search for a cinema-related topic on the search engine, they will get answers to their queries through carousels powered by the Knowledge Graph, movie showtime and featured snippets.

4G on the rise in India, with close to 16 million devices imported in first quarter of 2016.

Over 15.8 million 4G/LTE devices were imported in the first quarter of 2016 in India, a report said on Friday. Of these, 97.9% were smartphones followed by internet data cards at 1.5% and the remaining 0.6% were tablet PCs.
This amounts to 63% of the cellular devices shipped through the quarter, said the report by market research company CyberMedia Research (CMR) "Quarterly India LTE Devices" report.

"The smartphone industry was the first to bank upon the 4G wave. Now as the services go live with multiple operators, it is the time for other devices to ride on the growth path," said Faisal Kawoosa, Lead Analyst (Telecoms) at CMR in a statement.