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India awards apps that offer citizens Microsoft and Google alternatives

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India has named apps that it thinks citizens could do worse that adopt in the spirt of the nation’s self-reliance push, and the list includes competitors to software from global giants like Microsoft and Google. The apps were named at the conclusion of an “App Innovation Challenge that Indian prime minister pitched a means “to evolve Apps which can satisfy our market as well as compete with the world.” The winners of that competition were announced late last week and among the anointed apps were Zoho’s Workplace, Cliq and Invoices apps, respectively a personal productivity suite, Slack-like realt-time comms tool and a personal and SME finance management tool.

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