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Ola Cabs Aims Profitability by 2019
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Ola — the first name that usually comes to your mind when you step out for office. This company has become well-renowned for its service and affordability among the Indian household. A journey which started by Bhavesh Aggarwal and Ankit Bhati to provide seamless cab service at an affordable price

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Another Rs 5,000 Crore Investment Plan By Paytm
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The online payment app is trying to invest over the span of three years The country’s largest online payments and mobile wallet company Paytm is going to invest again. The startup will invest Rs 5,000 crore in the business over the next three years. Vijay Shekhar, founder of the company,

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Ola To Receive Big Investment From Softbank
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Softbank’s Strategic Moves To Enhance Its Indian Portfolio If the speculations are to be believed, Japanese internet and telecom company, SoftBank, will be making an investment of about $300 million into India’s leading taxi aggregator startup, Ola. Although, no one from either of the companies have confirmed the reports, it

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OYO Rooms Raises $62 Million from SoftBank
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OYO Rooms getting bigger and better! Founded in 2013 by Ritesh Agarwal, OYO Rooms raised a whopping $62mn from its existing investor- Japan’s SoftBank Group Corp. with no participation from other existing investors including Greenoaks Capital, Sequoia Capital, and Lightspeed Venture Partners. Gurugram-based budget hotel aggregator OYO Rooms is India’s

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Taiwan Welcomes SoftBank’s Humanoid Robot, Pepper
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Pepper’s Global Adventure Begins Today Meet Pepper Pepper is your friendly robot; just like those you have often seen in sci-fi films. No, we are not referring to the evil Skynet. In fact, Pepper is a far cry from that. It seems kind and intelligent. SoftBank developed Pepper some time

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What Lead Softbank’s Nikesh Arora to Quit Suddenly?
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From Being SoftBank’s Future CEO to Becoming an Outsider The one tag we had started associating with Nikesh Arora was ‘Future CEO of SoftBank’. Famously flamboyant, hard-working and once world’s third richest executive, one would expect that Nikesh has the world at his beck and call. But in a recent

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