From around 100 employees in 2016, to housing 2000 people in its largest office outside Tokyo, the Indian arm of Rakuten, the Japanese tech...

Google, JAFCO Asia, January Capital, ICMG Partners, Reddy Futures Fund and existing investors Beenext and Surge, the accelerator programme ...

Karkinos has raised funding from marquee investors such Ratan Tata, Venu Srinivasan, Kris Gopalakrishnan, Ronnie Screwvala, Vijay Shekar Sh...

NEC recently set up an Open RAN laboratory in India as a complement to its Center of Excellence (CoE) in the U.K to accelerate development ...

India's fifth-largest IT services provider, Tech Mahindra, has sold its entire stake in US-based Altiostar Networks to Rakuten for $45 mill...

Through the agreement, Tech Mahindra will also provide managed IT, security and network services to Rakuten Mobile in Japan, and there are ...

“We bring to the table our ability to design, to plan, to integrate and deploy and then to manage the entire suite of network capabilities,...

The investment is part of a larger Series-C round and while company executives declined to specify the exact size of the ongoing capital ra...

Experts say the growing importance of technology is driving the growth of investment in third-party centres.

Amazon has had executives working on global product development for more than 12 years in India, long before the 2013 launch of its marketp...

Fear of Jeff Bezos helps explain why Walmart has in recent years forged alliances with Google, Microsoft, China’s JD.com and other tech pla...

eBay, however, maintains that it is looking at a relaunch in India for the cross-border trade play while declining to comment on strategic ...

The India arm serves as a research and development centre for the Japanese company and is crucial to several of its strategic initiatives.

Kreditech gives long-duration, large-ticket loans to consumers with lower purchasing power and uses its own technology to underwrite loans.l

Sachin Dalal, cofounder of BSE-listed ecommerce firm Infibeam, will spearhead Japanese ecommerce giant Rakuten’s thrust into Indian shores.

Promising as the Indian ecommerce market seems, it would be challenging for Rakuten or any other newcomer to establish itself in the space.

If Alibaba enters the Indian online retail space by aligning with Snapdeal, it will be competing directly against market leader Flipkart an...