BENGALURU: Amazon founder Jeff Bezos may have lost the tag of the 'world’s richest man' he held briefly for a few hours on Thursday, following the company’s second quarter results, in which net income plummeted to $197 million from $857 million in second quarter 2016.But Indian users had reason to cheer as the company again indicated that India will be its biggest focus outside North America and also talked of investments in Echo devices and the Alexa platform for India.International losses, fuelled by Amazon’s aggressive India growth, grew to $724 million from $481 million in Q1 and $135 million in the second quarter of 2016.One of the large spends in India came from video content, with Prime Video also launching its first Indian Amazon Original, Inside Edge, the first of 18 Indian Original Series. The web series was mentioned by Bezos in the financial results."We continue to invest in India. We're very hopeful with the progress we've made with sellers and customers alike in India and we see great momentum and success there, so we continue to invest and we have some of our best people in that business," Chief Financial Officer Brian Olsavsky said when asked about rank order in terms of geographies and category expansion with respect to international margins.Overall for the first six months of the year, the losses from the international business were $1.206 billion as compared to $255 million in 2016 during the same period."A lot of the investments we're making in North America we're also making in international," he said.The company is also pushing investments in Echo devices and Alexa platform in India."The year-over-year difference is primarily driven by investments, what we were within the guidance range and we continue to invest in, as I said, fulfillment capacity and logistics services, digital video, our Echo and Alexa, Echo devices and Alexa platform India, the buildup at the AWS infrastructure, as well as Prime Now and Amazon Fresh and Prime benefits," Olsavsky said.Operating income decreased 51% to $628 million in the second quarter, compared with operating income of $1.3 billion in second quarter 2016. International sales were at $11.4 billion in Q2, up from $9.8 billion in the same quarter of 2016.Last year, Amazon announced it would pump in $3 billion more in India over its initial commitment of $2 billion. Earlier this month, Amazon invested another Rs 1,680 crore in its Indian unit, and a more recent investment of Rs 1,382 crore in to its data and cloud service business here.