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VCC Startups Weekly Wrap: Ola buys Foodpanda; Quikr picks up HDFC Realty
Cab aggregator Ola was the newsmaker of the week as it opened up a new battle front against global rival ......
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Ola to acquire Foodpanda India, invest $200 mn
Homegrown cab-hailing major Ola has agreed to acquire the Indian business of food delivery platform Foodpanda from its Germany-based parent ......
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India competition watchdog approves SoftBank-Flipkart, Alibaba-BigBasket deals
The Competition Commission of India (CCI) has cleared SoftBank Group Corp’s purchase of a minority holding in Flipkart and Alibaba ......
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VCC Startups weekly wrap: Google backs dunzo; Paytm to merge Little and Nearbuy
Google’s investment in daily tasks management app dunzo was one of the key highlights of the week as it marked ......
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Ola appoints PayU India co-founder Nitin Gupta as head of Ola Money
Bangalore-based ANI Technologies Pvt. Ltd, which owns cab-hailing app Ola, has appointed Nitin Gupta, co-founder and former chief executive of ......
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Chinese bicycle sharing unicorn Ofo enters India
Alibaba-backed Chinese bicycle sharing unicorn Ofo has entered India, likely intensifying competition in a market where three homegrown companies have ......
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Mumbai Uber, Ola drivers call for strike over falling income, rise in suicides
Drivers and car partners of app-based taxi aggregators Uber and Ola in Mumbai have called for an indefinite strike to ......
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VCC Startups weekly wrap: SoftBank in focus; Ola turns to bicycle; Nazara gets funds
Japanese investor SoftBank was in focus this week as it moved ahead on its share purchase of Indian e-tailer Flipkart ......
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From hunter to gatherer: Why part-exiting Flipkart, Ola is a prudent move by Tiger
New York-based investment firm Tiger Global has seen all seasons of startup investing in India—a full-of-promise spring in 2005-10, a ......
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Ola to launch bicycle sharing, runs pilot on IIT Kanpur campus
Under its ambitious plan of covering a wide spectrum of transportation services, cab-aggregator Ola plans to launch bicycle sharing, and ......
