YouTube’s Neal Mohan is the newest Indian-origin CEO in the tech worldFrom Google and Microsoft to Cognizant and Adobe, a growing number of technology-focused firms are today led by Indian-origin chief executi...
18 Feb, 2023, 07.24 AM IST
Cloudtail’s closure begins; Reliance aims to be quick-grocery giantCloudtail, which at one point accounted for more than half of all sales on Amazon in India, is now in its final days.
28 Mar, 2022, 10.10 AM IST
JioMart taps WhatsApp to deliver groceries, vegetablesA new 'tap and chat' option allows users to order groceries through WhatsApp. Delivery is free and there is no minimum order value. Custome...
15 Dec, 2021, 07.18 PM IST
Amazon vows ‘zero tolerance’ for graft after India probe reportThe U.S. company started a probe into its legal representatives’ conduct in India, the Morning Context, a two-year-old media site that typi...
20 Sep, 2021, 12.42 PM IST
Reliance goes shopping again, discovers Just Dial, acquires controlling stake in $700-million dealJust Dial will also be making a preferential allotment to Reliance Retail at Rs 1022.25 share to infuse Rs 2164.88 crore into the company, ...
16 Jul, 2021, 08.40 PM IST
Reliance, Google deepen partnershipIn today's ETtech Morning Dispatch: Reliance and Google have unveiled a JioPhone Next smartphone, a tie-up for 5G in India and collaboratio...
25 Jun, 2021, 08.30 AM IST
Ambani announces JioPhone Next, the 'most affordable smartphone in the world'; powered by Google"Our vision was to bring affordable access to information for Indians in their own language, to build new products and services for India’s...
24 Jun, 2021, 06.18 PM IST
Shut shopMaharashtra’s harsh lockdown has crippled e-commerce in the state but the industry is booming elsewhere, with the demand for delivery agent...
14 Apr, 2021, 07.43 PM IST
‘No exclusive tieup between WhatsApp and JioMart’Despite Facebook’s stake in Jio Patforms, JioMart wouldn’t have special access to WhatsApp’s ordering system, say industry executives.
19 Jan, 2021, 06.02 AM IST
WhatsApp unlikely to have exclusive partnership with any retailer or organisationWhatsApp has been in the news recently over changes in their privacy policies on sharing user data whose implementation has been delayed by...
18 Jan, 2021, 07.14 PM IST
Reliance terms reports of stake sale to Amazon speculativeAmazon was an investor in Future Group, whose retail business was acquired by Reliance late last month for Rs 24,713 crore. On September 9,...
10 Sep, 2020, 10.49 PM IST
Market experts laud RIL’s future plan; say Jio can be Rs 10L cr co in 2 yearsAnalysts lauded the strategic investment the company managed to get from Google.
15 Jul, 2020, 07.05 PM IST
Focus on Google investment, retail arm at Reliance AGM: Centrum Broking'Reliance could now talk about outlining the next phase of big value unlocking.'
15 Jul, 2020, 10.24 AM IST
How Facebook’s Reliance deal upends a $1 trillion digital arenaReliance and Facebook know a friction-less payments service is key to successful online commerce — but so are mom and pop shops. JioMart an...
30 Apr, 2020, 09.51 AM IST
Facebook-Jio deal: A high price for the American Social giantAccording to both Facebook and Jio, the playbook is the ecommerce opportunity in India. Some of this will come from linking the Whats-App p...
24 Apr, 2020, 09.16 PM IST
View: Only time will tell if Jio-Facebook deal is beneficial for IndiaThis deal gets Jio easier access to hundreds of millions of users across WhatsApp, Facebook and Instagram.
23 Apr, 2020, 11.13 PM IST
Can Facebook and Mukesh Ambani be really happy together?Ambani’s strategy has three connected elements: carriage, content and commerce.
22 Apr, 2020, 05.23 PM IST