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The Vodafone case in the Supreme Court related to the Adjusted Gross Revenue (AGR) dues will have some dramatic consequences for the Indian connected car market. Vodafone had indicated that the Supreme Court didn't grant a minimum time of 15 years…
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In 2014, even before he became the CEO of Google, Chennai-born Sundar Pichai had envisioned Google placing big bets on India. Back then he had predicted that the growth in internet user base would make India not only a huge…
Read More Why Has Google Made A $10 Billion Bet On India Now
Google’s chief executive Sundar Pichai pledged to spend $10 billion in India over the next 5-7 years to get more businesses and people online, the internet giant’s biggest bet yet to tap one of the world’s fastest growing internet markets. Sanchit Vir…
Read More Bullish Google Looks To Invest $10 Billion Over 7 Years To Digitize India
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Read More India Bans 59 Chinese Apps – A Bold But Pragmatic Decision
The partnership between Reliance Jio Infocomm Limited and Facebook as well as the reported interest of Google in Vodafone-Idea and Amazon starting early investment talks with Bharti Airtel (although both telecom companies denied the reports), are developments poised to blur…
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Jio Platforms is on a tear. The telecoms and digital arm of the Indian conglomerate Reliance Industries Limited (RIL) has raised $15.2 billion in 11 deals over two months amid a worldwide pandemic. “RIL seems to have mastered [dealmaking] better than…
Read More 11 Deals For $15 Billion In 10 Weeks: Why India’s Jio Platforms Is On An Investment Spree
With everyone clamoring to own a piece of Jio Platforms Ltd., owner of India's largest mobile operator, Jio's parent company may be eyeing an overseas listing. In the next one-to-two years leading up to the IPO, Jio will significantly ramp…
Read More Analysts Tout Benefits Of Possible US IPO For India’s Jio Amid Investment Boom
India’s top telecom companies—Jio Platforms, Bharti Airtel, Vodafone Idea and the state-run BSNL—are in the midst of a phase they have not seen in years. A series of investments flowing into the leading player Reliance Industries Limited’s (RIL) Jio Platforms…
Read More What’s Next In The Jio-Vodafone-Bharti Airtel Rivalry?
Jio Platforms has raised a whopping USD 13.7 billion from global investors in less than eight weeks, a feat probably no other seven-month-old company has ever achieved anywhere in the world. Experts believe that it is Jio Platforms’ ability…
Read More Making Sense of Reliance-Owned Jio Platforms’ Fundraising Spree
Jio Platforms has only been around in its current form since November, yet the digital arm of oil-to-retail giant Reliance Industries – whose chairman Mukesh Ambani is India’s richest man – has attracted almost US$13.5 billion in investment in the past eight weeks…
Read More In India, a Facebook-led investment spree for Mukesh Ambani’s Jio Platforms
India's wealthiest man, Mukesh Ambani, may be successful in listing his four-year-old tech commerce-telecom venture, Jio in foreign exchanges, all thanks to $12.5 billion (Rs 92,202 crore) funding raised in just over one and a half months. “The second…
India’s richest man Mukesh Ambani may soon be successful in listing his four-year-old telecom venture Jio in foreign exchanges thanks to the $12.5 billion (Rs 92,202 crore) funding the company has raised in a little over one and a half…
Read More US Listing And A $100 Billion Valuation For Reliance Jio Likely?
In the past five weeks, amid global economic turmoil, some of the world's largest investors have poured a combined $10 billion into Jio Platforms, an Indian tech company poorly understood outside the country. But why — and why now? Sanchit…
TOKYO -- India's struggle against the coronavirus pandemic has not stopped a dealmaking whirlwind at Reliance Industries. As the country has slowed down, its biggest corporation by sales and market capitalization has only seemed to speed up. Since Facebook said…
Read More Ambani Reshapes Reliance For Digital India With Jio Deals
Google has been reportedly in talks with Vodafone Idea for buying a 5 per cent stake in the second largest telecom operator in India. However, Vodafone Idea on Friday clarified with the Bombay Stock Exchange that it is evaluating various…
Read More Will Google’s Interest In Vodafone Create The Next Big Tech-Telecom Partnership In India?
Smelling opportunity in crisis is, perhaps, an important virtue of the greats and Mukesh Ambani’s fast-growing Jio Platforms is beginning to stand testimony to the same. After attracting investments worth $10 billion (Rs 78,562 crore) in just over a month,…
A potential investment in Vodafone Idea by global technology giant Google will further heat up the race to create the next big connected digital ecosystem in India, analysts feel. Subscribe To Greyhound Digital Digest “While Google and Bharti Airtel have…
Read More Google’s Investment In Vodafone Idea Can Create Next Big Digital Ecosystem
On May 28, 2020, Financial Times reported that Google is exploring a stake in Vodafone Idea Limited (VIL) to further its India presence. This news comes close on heels to the recent spate of investments in Jio Platforms, a wholly-owned…
Read More Google Wants In On The Indian Telecom Sector, Explores Stake With Vodafone Idea
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Read More From Reliance Smart To JioMart: A Move Rather Smart
Jio Mart, Reliance Retail’s answer to Amazon and Grofers, went national Saturday. Given that its success, if it happens, will also depend on sister concern Jio Platforms’ 380 million and growing subscriber base, there are concerns around how privacy and…
Read More Jio Mart’s Policy On Privacy, Data Handling May Need Revisit
Less than a month after starting a WhatsApp Ordering Service in Navi Mumbai, Reliance has rolled out JioMart widely. The ecommece platform, which Reliance calls a "single virtual store", will deliver products in 200 towns and cities in India, including…
Mukesh Ambani’s Reliance Jio platform saw a lot of cash inflow into the company. Unlike its competitors, the telecom giant saw a surge of investors. It is venturing into own operating systems, music, OTT and digital payments. After Facebook‘s $5.7…
Read More A Round-Up Of All Reliance Jio Investments And What Follows
Taking cues from many tech giants, Facebook is now trying to get small businesses to sell directly from its platform. The feature, called Shops, will be rolling out to both Facebook and Instagram and allows pretty much anyone to set…
Read More Facebook Takes Another Shot At eCommerce With Shops Platform
For the past few weeks, speculations are rife in trading circles regarding a mega-investment deal between Microsoft and Reliance Jio. Observers of the stock market foresee a considerable investment by Microsoft in the telecom giant. Before buying stakes in a…
Read More After Facebook, Microsoft Mulling Investment In Reliance Jio
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