If you’re addicted to Pokemon Go, that’s great — for your health, according to a study presented to the American Heart Association on Wednesday. The study — which tracked 167 players — found that people walked an average of almost 2,000 additional steps every day after embarking on Niantic’s location-based monster-hunting game. This translates to …

Can’t get enough of Netflix? Neither can people in India, where Netflix is growing fast after launching early last year. To reciprocate the love, Netflix will set up an office in Mumbai and invest more in creating TV shows and movies specifically for India, company CEO Reed Hastings said, according to the Economic Times. Netflix will work to eliminate buffering …

When it comes to selling phones in India, Apple has a conundrum: Indians need inexpensive phones, but Apple’s products are all premium. To solve this problem, the company has resurrected the iPhone 6 in the country, selling a 32GB variant of the 2014 phone through online retailers. This follows the model being discontinued in the country with the iPhone 7’s …

India is becoming a bigger, more important market every day, and now it’s getting its own trade show from the brains behind Mobile World Congress. Named the Indian Mobile Congress (IMC), it’ll be organised by the Cellular Operators Association of India (COAI) and backed by GSM Association, the groups that run the original Mobile World Congress, reports The Economic Times. …

You may not have heard of it, but Line is one of the world’s biggest messaging apps. Now the Japanese company is getting into the AI game. Line is teaming up with parent-company Naver, a South Korean search giant, to create an artificial intelligence platform called Clova. The company announced its plans at the Mobile World Congress conference in Barcelona. …

India’s tech growth has been advancing quickly, and it doesn’t look like it’s going to stop. The number of internet users in the country is expected to cross 450 million by midyear, according to The Economic Times, citing a report by the Internet and Mobile Association of India (IAMAI). That’s an increase of about 30 million people in six months, …

There are a few companies working to make bike-sharing as ubiquitous as ride-hailing, and one Chinese company just got a step closer. Bike-sharing app Ofo raised $450 million in its latest round of funding, reports Bloomberg. That raises its valuation to over $1 billion. The service, targeting those tired of congested roads and public transport, allows users to locate a …

You’re driving around the family’s favorite restaurant looking for a parking spot. The kids are whining in the back seat and everyone is starving, but there’s not a parking spot in sight. Sound familiar? Japanese company Rakuten feels your pain and wants to solve that nightmare for you. Last week, the e-commerce company launched Rakupa, a parking-space sharing service that …

Baidu is China’s equivalent of Google, but hundreds of millions of questions went unanswered when the mobile version of the search engine broke down for 18 minutes last night, reports SCMP. Almost two hours after service was resumed, the company behind China’s largest internet search engine apologised (for the third time) on its official Weibo account. “We missed more than …

It looks like Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s move to take a chunk of the country’s cash off the streets has done tremendous good for digital wallet apps — and especially PayTM. The company’s CEO Vijay Shekhar announced on Twitter that it crossed the 200 million users milestone on Monday, adding that he hopes to reach 500 million by 2020. …