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NEW DELHI: Alphabet Inc’s Google is set to appoint a producing and policy veteran as its high authorities affairs executive in India to deal with authorized challenges and broaden {hardware} meeting to the nation.
Sreenivasa Reddy, presently a senior engineering executive at Microsoft Corp, is probably going to be a part of Google towards the tip of this yr, individuals conversant in the matter mentioned, asking not to be recognized as the matter is personal. He beforehand labored in senior positions at Apple Inc’s India regulatory workforce and headed authorities relations on the native unit of Swedish telecom-gear maker Ericsson AB, serving to to drive home manufacturing at each corporations.
Reddy’s expertise will turn out to be useful at Google, which is scouting for companions in India to assemble its Pixel vary of smartphones as it seeks to diversify past China. Pixel’s manufacturing in India may lead to the native manufacturing of different Google {hardware} merchandise, such as audio system.
The executive will even assist Google navigate regulatory challenges. The Mountain View, California-based firm is combating antitrust fees in India, with authorities accusing it of abusing its dominant place in cell working programs.
Reddy and representatives for Google in India didn’t reply to requests for remark. Google’s earlier India policy head, Archana Gulati, left the corporate final yr.
Google is amongst world expertise companies viewing India as a key progress market. The firm is including extra native languages to its providers and looking for methods to make its Android smartphones cheaper, keen to win extra customers on the earth’s most populous nation.
The firm plans to open a worldwide monetary-expertise heart in Gujarat International Finance Tech-City — extra generally identified as GIFT City — in Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s dwelling state, Alphabet Chief Executive Officer Sundar Pichai mentioned in the course of the Indian premier’s go to to the US final month.
Sreenivasa Reddy, presently a senior engineering executive at Microsoft Corp, is probably going to be a part of Google towards the tip of this yr, individuals conversant in the matter mentioned, asking not to be recognized as the matter is personal. He beforehand labored in senior positions at Apple Inc’s India regulatory workforce and headed authorities relations on the native unit of Swedish telecom-gear maker Ericsson AB, serving to to drive home manufacturing at each corporations.
Reddy’s expertise will turn out to be useful at Google, which is scouting for companions in India to assemble its Pixel vary of smartphones as it seeks to diversify past China. Pixel’s manufacturing in India may lead to the native manufacturing of different Google {hardware} merchandise, such as audio system.
The executive will even assist Google navigate regulatory challenges. The Mountain View, California-based firm is combating antitrust fees in India, with authorities accusing it of abusing its dominant place in cell working programs.
Reddy and representatives for Google in India didn’t reply to requests for remark. Google’s earlier India policy head, Archana Gulati, left the corporate final yr.
Google is amongst world expertise companies viewing India as a key progress market. The firm is including extra native languages to its providers and looking for methods to make its Android smartphones cheaper, keen to win extra customers on the earth’s most populous nation.
The firm plans to open a worldwide monetary-expertise heart in Gujarat International Finance Tech-City — extra generally identified as GIFT City — in Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s dwelling state, Alphabet Chief Executive Officer Sundar Pichai mentioned in the course of the Indian premier’s go to to the US final month.
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