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Over 4K Amazon Employees Call On Bezos For Swift Action Over Climate Change
In a rare move, more than 4,500 Amazon employees have written a letter to CEO and founder Jeff Bezos, criticising the ecommerce company’s lack of commitment to battling climate change. The letter,...
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What’s In A Name? $4.7 Bn If It Is Flipkart, Says Walmart
The ink has dried on the blockbuster Walmart-Flipkart’s $16 Bn deal. While the effect of this merger on Flipkart is still under debate, a filing by the US-based retail giant has now thrown up new...
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Exclusive: Reliance Is Acquiring Haptik For Over INR 200 Cr To Build India’s...
Reliance Jio is acquiring chatbot maker, Haptik for over INR 200 Cr, to build its own conversational platform on the lines of Amazon’s Alexa, a source close to the development told Inc42. The...
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OYO Acquires Innov8 For INR 220 Cr In An All Cash Deal
Gurugram-based coworking startup Innov8 has been acquired by hospitality chain OYO in an all-cash deal worth about INR 220 Cr ($31.84 Mn). According to Inc42 sources, the founders and investors of...
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IPL Is Hotstar’s Trump Card, But Game Of Thrones Is The Ace Up Its Sleeve
Hotstar has surged to the top of the Indian on-demand video streaming market over the past few years on the back of live sports and streaming content. Its growth has coincided with the rise of live TV...
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Exclusive: Reliance Is Acquiring Haptik For Over INR 200 Cr To Build India’s...
Reliance Jio is acquiring chatbot maker, Haptik for over INR 200 Cr, to build its own conversational platform on the lines of Amazon’s Alexa, a source close to the development told Inc42. The...
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US Companies May Shift Manufacturing From China To India, But Demand Say In...
About 200 US companies are reportedly planning to shift their manufacturing plants to India after the Lok Sabha Elections, the US-India trade advocacy group, the US-India Strategic and Partnership...
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Paytm’s Brand New Feature Promises To Ease Recurring Payments
Fintech unicorn Paytm has announced a new feature to ease repeated and scheduled payments for its merchant partners. This is likely to help merchants make recurring payments for a wide range of...
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Pesto’s Mission Of Upskilling 5.2 Mn Engineers Gets $2 Mn Funding Boost From...
Currently, there are over half a million open software engineering jobs in the US alone. That number is predicted to be over 1.4 Mn by 2020. On the contrary, there are 5 Mn software engineers in India....
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Ratan Tata Invests In Ola Electric Mobility’s Series A Funding Round
Ratan Tata, chairman emeritus of Tata Sons, has invested an undisclosed amount in Ola Electric Mobility as part of its Series A round. Ratan Tata said, “The electric vehicle ecosystem is evolving...
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When A Dinner Conversation Led To The Founding Of A Natural, Vegan-Friendly...
Indians have always focussed on the use of natural products for personal care and that is visible from the wide use of Ayurveda, Naturopathy, etc. In fact, the country is credited with being the...
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With 3000X Revenue Growth In Three Years, This STEM Toys Startup Could Be...
Ideas can strike you at any point. Like at a kid’s birthday party for Smartivity Labs’ Tushar Amin and Apoorv Gupta. The two noticed how even the most expensive toys could not manage to grab the...
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MobiKwik Looks At Clocking 70,000 Digital Loan Disbursals In May 2019
Technology has touched nearly every aspect of commerce and transaction these days. It’s no different when it comes to borrowing and loans. With Non-Banking Financial Companies (NBFCs) coming to the...
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Facebook Responds To Reports Of Indian Workers Labelling Private User Data
After the Cambridge Analytica scandal and numerous allegations of ignoring user privacy and rampant data collection, Facebook is once again caught in a controversy. This time around, the problem is due...
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How Altizon Is Bringing Data-Driven Smart Manufacturing To India With Its...
Amtrak, the marketing name given to the passenger railroad service run by the National Railroad Passenger Corporation in the US, is one of the most widely-used and busiest transit systems in the...
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Breaking: HealthKart Raises $25 Mn Funding from Sofina
Digital nutrition platform HealthKart has raised $25 Mn from Sofina in a fresh round of financing. HealthKart is an omnichannel healthcare platform, made up of an online portal, over 110 retail stores...
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As Ecommerce Bug Bites Mid-Tier Towns, Demand For Regional Language Customer...
Earlier today Bengaluru-based Frontizo Business Services, a joint venture between ecommerce giant Amazon and the Ashok Patni Group reportedly set up a new facility in Haryana to focus on providing text...
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Exclusive: Social Commerce Startup Wooplr Shuts Down As Merger Talks Fall...
Bengaluru-based social commerce company Wooplr has shut down operations after negotiations for a merger fell through, the company’s former employees said. “The company has shut down after an internal...
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Over 4K Amazon Employees Call On Bezos For Swift Action Over Climate Change
In a rare move, more than 4,500 Amazon employees have written a letter to CEO and founder Jeff Bezos, criticising the ecommerce company’s lack of commitment to battling climate change. The letter,...
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What’s In A Name? $4.7 Bn If It Is Flipkart, Says Walmart
The ink has dried on the blockbuster Walmart-Flipkart’s $16 Bn deal. While the effect of this merger on Flipkart is still under debate, a filing by the US-based retail giant has now thrown up new...
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