4 Winners And 3 Losers If Flipkart Eventually Gets Acquired By Walmart
The rumours have been doing the rounds for months now, but now they’ve reached a crescendo — Walmart could be days away from acquiring…
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Xiaomi India MD Manu Kumar Jain Set To Make A Fortune With Company’s $100 Billion IPO
When Xiaomi finally goes public in Hong Kong in the biggest IPO since 2014, an Indian executive will be watching with interest. Xiaomi…
Ola And Mobikwik Announce A Partnership With Some Seriously Lame Rhymes On Twitter
There might be no money or exits in the Indian startup ecosystem at the moment, but at least there are some rhymes. Ola and…
Paytm Mall Ties Up With Filmfare, Lets Users Purchase Clothes By Scanning QR Codes In Magazine
One is a a swashbuckling new startup that’s looking to disrupt how Indians transact, and the other is a half-century old vanguard of…
Amazon Has Made A Formal Offer To Buy 60% Of Flipkart: Reports
After bitterly slugging it out against it in the Indian market for four years, trading barbs between executives, and undercutting each other on discounts…
WhatsApp CEO Jan Koum Quits Facebook, Reportedly Over Differences Around Data Privacy
The rift between WhatsApp’s cofounders and Facebook’s management is now out in the open. Weeks after his WhatsApp cofounder Brian Acton had publicly exhorted…
Softbank Says It’s Open To Offers In Flipkart, 8 Months After Saying It Was Committed To Its Journey
Softbank’s much-heralded investment in Flipkart might last less than a year. After putting in a mega $2.5 billion into Flipkart in August last year, Softbank has…
Swiggy’s CEO On How A 4,000 Km Bicycle Trip From Portugal To Turkey Helped His Startup Journey
You’d think that successful young founders are singularly focused on building their companies, feverishly attending startup conferences and writing business plans while they’re…
Kishore Biyani’s Future Group Ventures Into Grocery Delivery, Customers Can Now Order Via App
The grocery delivery space has seen many startups crash and burn, but a old hand is now throwing its hat into the ring….