Ola drawing up a route map to join quick commerce partyWith Ola Electric preparing to list on the bourses later this week, CEO Bhavish Aggarwal is simultaneously sharpening his focus on the cab-...
08 Aug, 2024, 10.00 AM IST
Ola eyes grocery and fashion foray on ONDCOla expands e-commerce via ONDC, adding groceries and fashion. Uber may use ONDC for diversification. Ola sees profitability with Rs 250 cr...
15 Apr, 2024, 06.01 AM IST
Ola joins ONDC with food-delivery pluginThe Bengaluru-based startup has begun piloting with ONDC since August with an ‘ONDC Food’ feature newly embedded within the Ola app, multip...
01 Sep, 2023, 07.46 PM IST
Ola’s valuation slashed 35% to $4.8 billion by US investor VanguardThe development comes on the back of Ola exiting verticals like food and grocery delivery and second-hand car sales, to focus on its mainst...
11 May, 2023, 01.11 AM IST
2022 Year in Review | Quick commerce returns to realityBut as the year progressed, quick commerce companies slowly returned to reality as investors turned bearish amid rising inflation, followed...
30 Dec, 2022, 06.43 PM IST
Ola scales down food business, looks to integrate it with 10-minute grocery deliveryOla’s cloud-kitchen business under Ola Foods has nixed its expansion plans as it looks to sell most of its kitchen equipment at up to 30-50...
19 May, 2022, 05.02 PM IST
Ola’s top engineering honcho Dinesh Radhakrishnan quitsRadhakrishnan was chief technology officer of Ola Electric when he left the company, as per his LinkedIn profile. His departure only highli...
08 May, 2022, 11.34 PM IST
Ola begins pilot of quick grocery delivery serviceOla is starting a pilot of its 'Ola Store' in Bengaluru starting off with a few key localities, and then expanding across major cities in I...
05 Nov, 2021, 05.28 PM IST
Ola begins pilot of quick grocery delivery service: SourcesThe sources said the service is available within the Ola app and is rolling out to select consumers in Bengaluru..
05 Nov, 2021, 04.11 PM IST
Amazon to use Prime Now for food delivery launchPrime Now will serve as a platform focusing on high-frequency use cases of both food and grocery delivery, as Amazon looks to capture a big...
19 Aug, 2019, 10.49 AM IST
Demonetisation sets the cash registers ringing for e-tailers & aggregatorsThese on-demand service providers are making the most of the cash crunch caused by the currency recall, employing a few timely business hac...
12 Dec, 2016, 08.12 AM IST
Indonesia’s GO-JEK acquires Bengaluru-based healthcare startup PiantaFounded in 2010, GO-JEK has over two-lakh motorbike taxis, known as “ojeks” in its fleet. Since then, the company has diversified into food...
27 Sep, 2016, 09.16 AM IST
Abraaj, others put $150 million in the BigBasketOnline grocer BigBasket has raised $150 million (about Rs 1,000 crore) in funding led by Dubai’s Abraaj Group, as it seeks to establish.
23 Mar, 2016, 01.29 PM IST
Ola completes $500 million fundraise as race with Uber gains tractionOla, which recently also ventured into grocery delivery and electronic payments, is now valued at $5 billion, a top executive of the compan...
19 Nov, 2015, 06.50 AM IST
Ola wallet can now be used on platforms like Oyo Rooms, Lenskart and SaavanWith over 20 million customers on its platform, Ola Money is already one of the top three mobile wallets in the country by transaction volu...
25 Aug, 2015, 05.05 AM IST
We won't compete with Ola & Uber: Samar Singla, Jugnoo.comHaving a cut and dried business model helps in making decisions. Jugnoo decided not to compete against Ola and Uber despite acquiring BookM...
09 Aug, 2015, 04.50 AM IST
Ola planning to tie-up with retailers for grocery collection and delivery“Ola wants the retailer to do the packaging and picking of the orders and only focus on the delivery,” said an on-demand grocer familiar.
09 Apr, 2015, 04.57 AM IST