{"id":117603,"date":"2020-12-24T20:23:08","date_gmt":"2020-12-25T04:23:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/12\/google-helps-birth-two-social-media-unicorns-in-rapid-succession"},"modified":"2020-12-24T20:23:08","modified_gmt":"2020-12-25T04:23:08","slug":"google-helps-birth-two-social-media-unicorns-in-rapid-succession","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/12\/google-helps-birth-two-social-media-unicorns-in-rapid-succession","title":{"rendered":"Google Helps Birth Two Social Media Unicorns in Rapid Succession"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/google-helps-birth-two-social-media-unicorns-in-rapid-succession2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Google and its American internet peers are steadily amping up their investment in India, latching onto the only other country with a billion-plus population after getting shut out of China. From <a href=\"http:\/\/Amazon.com\">Amazon.com<\/a> Inc. to Facebook Inc., they\u2019re hoping to get in on the ground floor of what they envision as a smartphone and online commerce boom that could eventually create a market to rival the world\u2019s No. 2 economy.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Google investments helped create India\u2019s two youngest technology unicorns: a pair of startups that feed personalized news and entertainment to the world\u2019s fastest-growing smartphone population.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Google and its American internet peers are steadily amping up their investment in India, latching onto the only other country with a billion-plus population after getting shut out of China. From Amazon.com Inc. to Facebook Inc., they\u2019re hoping to get in on the ground floor of what they envision as a smartphone and online commerce [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":417,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,1512],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-117603","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics","category-mobile-phones"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117603","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/417"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=117603"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117603\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=117603"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=117603"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=117603"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}