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- Google will acquire a 7.7% stake in Jio Platforms worth Rs 33,737 crore.
- For Google, this is the “first and biggest investment” from the recently announced $10-billion India fund by its CEO Sundar Pichai.
- The two companies will jointly develop an operating system for an entry-level smartphone that will support 5G and target India’s 350 million feature-phone users.