this is the Technology Report.Two large Internet companies Facebook and Googlerecently purchased two India-based technology start-up companies.India is home to tens of thousands of computer software engineersand a growing information technology industry.The sales of the start-up companiesare expected to influence othersto launch businesses in the country.Facebook closed its deal to buy Little Eye Labs in early January.Four engineers in Bangalore launched Little Eye Labsabout a year and a half ago.The company builds mobile application software tools,the deal is set to be worth between 10 and 15 million dollars.It is the first time Facebook has purchased an Indian start-up company.Google bought the cyber security company Imperium.Imperium has offices in Bangalore and California.Media reports set the value of the deal at about $9 million.The two deals are considered small but important.Experts say they will help increase interest in Indian start-upsamong phone technology companies,such businesses often buy small companieseither for the technology they develop or the ability of their creators.Rutvik Doshi is with Inventus Capital Partners,an investment company in Bangalore."Till date none of these large U.S. companieshad ever acquired anything in India to write home about.If they both turn out to be successful for these respective companies,they will start looking at India more seriously,in terms of there is more talent, there is more technology,and entrepreneurship happening here,” said Doshi.Indian software engineers have gained recognition around the world.Most of the engineers work for big Indian technology companies,but the number of Indian technology start-up companies is on the rise.Rising money for the start ups is not always easy.Rajesh Sawhney help to create a company called GSF Accelerator,it provided financial support for Little Eye Labs.Mr Sawhney says most of the start-ups in Indiahave worked on developing products for the home market.But he says the recent deals with Facebook and Googlewill lead investors and business people to widen their efforts."The time now is to encourage these start upsto start thinking global and that is what internet allows today.We need to encourage our bright,young talent in India to start building products for world marketslike Israelis have done or like U.S. start-ups do,” said Sawhney.Bangalore’s successful technology services and outsourcing industrymostly does back office work for Western companies.But this work has put India on the technology map, the successthat the industry has created will help open the door to future growth.And that is the Technology Report from VOA Learning English.更多听力请访问 51voa.com