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GOOGLE sees a "tremendous opportunity" to grow its business in Singapore and to showcase the city-state as a centre for innovation, according to a top official of the California-based tech giant.

Speaking to The Business Times, Caesar Sengupta, Google's vice-president for the Next Billion Users team, added that this was one of the reasons the company had set up a new engineering group here earlier this year to lead product development for the region.

"We're not only creating products for Asia and the world, but we're also committed to helping Singapore nurture the next generation of tech innovators," Mr Sengupta said.

Highlighting some of the initiatives being taken by Google, Mr Sengupta announced on Thursday it is bringing Code in the Com…