The merger of Zee Media of India and a local Indian affiliate of Japan’s Sony Group Corp is set to create a television behemoth that would be able to capture more advertising income, according to industry experts, while also posing serious competition to Walt Disney Co in a crucial growing market. Armed with about 75…
Anurag Mehrotra, the Chief Executive Officer of Ford Motor Co. in India, has left the company to seek other possibilities for his career. It was just a few days ago that the United States based car maker had announced its decision to stop all production activities in in eth Indian market as the company also…
In a case involving cartelisation of beer pricing in India, the country’s antitrust watchdog levied a penalty of $102 million on Heineken-controlled beer giant United Breweries and $16 million on the local subsidiary of Denmark’s Carlsberg on Friday. The ruling follows a lengthy inquiry that began in 2018, with the Competition Commission of India (CCI) searching…
according to Elon Musk, CEO of the United States based electric vehicle maker Tesla, stated on Friday that the continuing semiconductor shortage problem being faced throughout the world will be resolved by next year. The tech entrepreneur believes the chip scarcity is a “short-term” issue rather than a long-term one. “There’s a lot of chip fabrication plants that…
Amazon.com Inc introduced eight global and local streaming services on its video platform in India on Friday. With this launch, the company aims to increase paid subscriptions in the huge Indian market for its video streaming services. The decision comes at a time when the firm is facing increased rivalry from both global and domestic…
Nike Inc on Thursday cut its fiscal 2022 sales expectations and said it expects delays during the holiday shopping season, blaming a supply chain crunch that has left it with soaring freight costs and products stuck in transit. Months-long factory closures in Vietnam, where about half of all Nike footwear is manufactured, have piled more…
Airbnb said on Thursday that it plans to house an extra 20,000 Afghan refugees, increasing the total number to 40,000. The charity arm of the home-sharing website offered to house 20,000 migrants last month. Airbnb, on the other hand, stated in a recent blog post that it will have “the potential to go above and…
India’s Ola plans to produce kick scooters, e-bikes, drones and even flying cars under its future mobility scheme to help meet the country’s transport needs, the company’s founder Bhavish Agarwal said in a blogpost on Thursday. Ola, backed by Japan’s Softbank Group, is building what it calls a “New Mobility” ecosystem which will include mobility…
Yum China Holdings, the parent company of KFC, is focusing its outlet development efforts in China on smaller areas, where demand has rebounded far faster from the epidemic than in the country’s larger cities, its CEO said on Thursday. With over 11,000 locations, the owner of the KFC, Pizza Hut, and Taco Bell brands in…
General Motors Co announced on Thursday that it will make an investment of $300 million in the Chinese self-driving startup Momenta for developing self-driving technology for the American company’s future models in China, marking the company’s first such partnership in the world’s largest vehicle market. Momenta is one of the few firms in China with…
