Google has announced two new offers for Indian businesses and startups to use their services. The company says it will offer credits worth $20,000 for Google Cloud Services for 1,000 Indian startups in 2016. "Over the last few years, we have gained tremendous momentum in helping companies go Google in India and we’re confident that with these new initiatives, we will further bring down the barriers for companies to make the switch to Google Apps," Google India said in a blog post. There are some caveats and Google says that the startup must be less than five years old, have less than $5 million funding and will have to generate $500,000 in annual revenue. Google will also give the companies selected free consultation and training for the Google Cloud Platform. It looks like Google is trying to take on Amazon Web Services and Microsoft and get more users to shift to their platform. Amazon Web Services reported in the quarter ended September 30,2015 sales of $2.085 billion, a growth of 78.35% when compared to the same quarter last year. While Microsoft's revenues in Intelligent Cloud grew by 8% to $5.9 billion with the company claiming to have more than doubled its customer based YoY for Enterprise Mobility solutions in the quarter ended September. In addition, Google also said it would cover the fees of Google Apps for any business locked into an enterprise agreement (EA) with another provider until its contract runs out. Google will also chip in with some of the deployment costs to set…
