With China’s Didi Chuxing Technology Co, launching its operations in Mexico in April 2018, Uber is under pressure to consolidate and expand its footprint in the remaining 11 Mexican states where regulations are not exactly friendly to ride-hailing services. In a move that marks Uber Technologies’ commitments to Mexico, the ride services firm disclosed it…
The ongoing battle between Comcast Corp and Walt Disney Co over control of Tata Sky, an Indian pay TV network, as part of their fight for Twenty-First Century Fox Inc, is indicative of the growth potential of the country’s more than 1 billion viewers. Upping the stakes against its peer, Amazon Prime, Netflix Inc premiered…
By 2022, India aims to increase its solar energy capacity by 5 times to 20GW. On Friday, Japanese public broadcaster NHK reported, without citing sources, SoftBank Group Corp has decided to invest $60 billion to $100 billion in the solar industry in India. A formal agreement is expected to be signed soon between the Indian…
The nenewable energy market in the Asia Pacific region is to boom with utility-scale batteries replacing expensive power grids. In a strategic move, Japan’s JERA, is set to collaborate with a U.S.-German joint venture along with an Australian firm in order to develop battery projects in the Asia-Pacific region. The move targets a market expected…
The deal essentially acts as a point of entry for Wal-Mart into India’s highly competitive e-commerce market. Flipkart and Wal-Mart can finally level the playing field against Amazon.com, the world’s biggest online retailer. On Friday, as per a Bloomberg report citing anonymous sources, Indian e-commerce giant Flipkart has agreed to sell an a 75% equity…
Flipkart is likely to provide Wal-Mart the leverage it needs to fight Amazon.com in India and globally, making the purchase of a stake in Flipkart very strategic. On Wednesday, sources familiar with the matter at hand have told CNBC-TV18 that Amazon.com Inc has made a formal offer to purchase a 60% stake in Indian online…
Founded by former Amazon employees Binny Bansal and Sachin Bansal in 2007, Flipkart controls almost 40% of India’s online retail market, as per Forrester, a research firm. Indian local news daily, Mint has reported citing sources familiar with the matter at hand, Amazon.com Inc is likely to place an offer to acquire its Indian peer…
Softbank Group has spread its investment across major players in India’s burgeoning e-commerce market, including in home-grown Flipkart, Snapdeal and Paytm E-Commerce. As per a regulatory filing, as part of a funding round that values India’s Paytm E-Commerce Pvt. Ltd at $1.9 billion, Japan’s SoftBank Group will invest $400 million with exsiting investor Alibaba also…
Although this is Uber’s second such retreat from Southeast Asia, the deal suggests that Uber is taking a defensive positioning for a potential counter-offensive especially with its CEO Khosrowshahi gaining a foothold in Grab’s board. On Monday, in a move that marks Uber Technologies Inc’s second retreat from the Asian, the ride services firm has…
The strategic move will not only bring down its import cost but will also help it sl slash escalating labor costs in China. In a move that signals an expansion of Apple’s iPhone assembly line in India, Wistron Corp, a Taiwanese contract manufacturer which is part of Apple Inc, has won approval from India’s Karnataka…
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