In a significant development that sees Facebook gaining entry into India’s booming digital payment space, WhatsApp has been granted approval to role its payments service in India. WhatsApp, which has over 400 million users in India, its biggest market, will compete with Alphabet Inc’s Google Pay, Softbank- and Alibaba-backed Paytm and Walmart’s PhonePe. Menlo Park,…
On Monday, Paytm, an Indian digital payments company stated it has raised fresh funds totaling to $1 billion from a group of investors which includes existing backers such as SoftBank’s Vision Fund and China’s Ant Financial Services. The funding round saw Paytm being valued at $16 billion. A fresh investment in Paytm by Japan’s SoftBank’s…
The potential $285.4 to 356.7 million deal assumes significance since, 1) it marks Buffet’s first direct investment in India and 2) it values Paytm at over $10 billion. On Monday, as per a report from the Economic Times, Berkshire Hathaway Inc is in talks with India’s One97 Communications Ltd, the parent of digital payments firm…
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