{"id":56025,"date":"2022-01-31T18:33:55","date_gmt":"2022-01-31T10:33:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/bloomberg-google-invests-700m-in-bharti-airtel\/"},"modified":"2022-01-31T18:33:55","modified_gmt":"2022-01-31T10:33:55","slug":"bloomberg-google-invests-700m-in-bharti-airtel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/bloomberg-google-invests-700m-in-bharti-airtel\/","title":{"rendered":"Bloomberg: Google Invests $700M in Bharti Airtel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Google&nbsp;will invest as much as $1 billion in India\u2019s second-largest mobile phone operator, as firms race to offer inexpensive data and digital offerings in the only billion-people-plus market still open to foreign companies.<\/p>\n<p>Alphabet Inc., which owns the Google search engine, will pay $700 million for a 1.28% stake in&nbsp;Bharti Airtel Ltd., the New Delhi-based company said in an exchange filing Friday. Another $300 million is part of a corpus that will be invested over five years in the areas of devices, network and cloud technologies, Gopal Vittal, Bharti\u2019s chief executive officer for India and South Asia, said in a media call later in the day.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><em>Read more at Bloomberg.com&gt;&gt;&gt;<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Google&nbsp;will invest as much as $1 billion in India\u2019s second-largest mobile phone operator, as firms race to offer inexpensive data and digital offerings in the only billion-people-plus market still open to foreign companies. Alphabet Inc., which owns the Google search engine, will pay $700 million for a 1.28% stake in&nbsp;Bharti Airtel Ltd., the New Delhi-based [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":55159,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-56025","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56025"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=56025"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56025\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/55159"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=56025"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=56025"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=56025"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}