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SoftBank, Saudi sovereign fund plan robotic initiative
Saudi Arabia’s main sovereign wealth investment fund and Japan’s Softbank Group plan to jointly study how robots can be used ......
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Ibibo Group founder and MakeMyTrip president Ashish Kashyap resigns
Online travel services provider MakeMyTrip Ltd’s president Ashish Kashyap has resigned from the company, the Nasdaq-listed firm said on Wednesday.Kashyap’s ......
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Can Alibaba help Zomato take on rivals?
Online food ordering and restaurant discovery firm Zomato is reportedly in talks to raise up to $200 million from Alibaba. ......
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Star India injects $192 mn into digital content arm
Star India, a media company backed by Twenty-First Century Fox, has injected 12.33 billion rupees ($192.04 million) into its digital ......
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SEBI suggests ‘calibrated system' to manage foreign inflows
A senior official at India’s capital markets regulator warned on Wednesday about the impact of “huge” foreign investments on the ......
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Facebook ad reach figures exceed US census data: Analyst
Figures Facebook Inc gives advertisers about its potential reach differ from U.S. census data, an investment analyst said on Tuesday, ......
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IIFL Asset Management chief Prashasta Seth joins Uniphore board
Prashasta Seth, chief executive of IIFL Asset Management Company, has joined the board of directors at speech-recognition startup Uniphore Software ......
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Facebook testing features to monetise WhatsApp
Facebook Inc is gearing up to make money from WhatsApp, the messaging service used by more than a billion people ......
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Govt freezes bank accounts of over 2 lakh suspected shell companies
India has frozen the bank accounts of 209,032 suspected shell companies as part of a crackdown on illegal transactions and ......
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Phoenix Legal hires former Seth Dua & Associates partner Vasanth Rajasekaran
Vasanth Rajasekaran, former equity partner of Seth Dua & Associates, is joining mid-sized full-service law firm Phoenix Legal as partner.Two ......