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| 03.10.2024 | Rediff.com’s New Dawn: A Strategic Shift in Digital Finance | In the fast-paced world of digital finance, change is the only constant. Rediff.com, a name once synonymous with online news and content, is now pivoting towards a new identity. With the recent appointment of Vishal Mehta as Chairman and Ma... |
| 03.10.2024 | Rediff.com Appoints Vishal Mehta as Chairman and MD Following Infibeam Acquisition The appointment comes shortly after Infibeam Avenues acquired a 54% stake in Rediff.com in August, signaling its inte... | Rediff.com has announced the appointment of Vishal Mehta as its new Chairman and Managing Director, marking a pivotal leadership change following Infibeam Avenues Ltd's acquisition of a majority stake in the company.
The board of directors ... |
| 01.10.2024 | UPI sets new record with more than 15 Bn transactions in Sept | Unified Payments Interface (UPI) has achieved a significant milestone by processing over 15 billion transactions in a month for the first time in September.
Data published by the National Payments Corporation of India (NPCI) indicates that ... |
| 05.08.2024 | Majority stake in Rediff.com acquired by Infibeam Avenues | A 54% stake in Rediff.com India Ltd. has been acquired by the fintech company Infibeam Avenues. With the help of this internally funded acquisition, Infibeam Avenues will launch its consumer-facing digital financial service as an aggregator... |
| 03.08.2024 | Fintech Player Infibeam Avenues Picks Up a 54% Stake in News Website Rediff The strategic move marks Infibeam's entry into consumer-facing digital financial service as an aggregator backed by a news, ... | Gujarat-based fintech player Infibeam Avenues has entered an agreement for a 54 stake in Rediff.com India.
In a filing with the BSE, Infibeam shared it would invest around INR 50 crore in the news website, split equally between equity and d... |
| 02.08.2024 | Infibeam Picks Up Majority Stake In Rediff.com | SUMMARY
Infibeam Avenues plans to acquire a 54.1% stake in Nasdaq-listed digital content and ecommerce marketplace Rediff.com for INR 25 Cr
The majority stake acquisition in Rediff.com marks Infibeam’s foray into the consumer facing digital... |
| 02.08.2024 | Infibeam acquires Rediff; Bebe Burp raises pre-Series A funding | Listed payments infra and SaaS company Infibeam Avenues has acquired a 54.10% stake in online information portal Rediff for a cash consideration of Rs 25 crore. The acquisition will value Rediff at Rs 46.2 crore.
Additionally, Infibeam woul... |
| 08.11.2022 | Bloodbath Continues In Ed-Tech As Unacademy Fires 350 Employees (10% Workforce) | Edtech startup Unacademy has laid off 10% of its workforce, which amounts to around 350 employees.
Once at its peak during the pandemic and the lockdown, India’s edtech startup scenario is worsening as companies and schools begin reopening.... |
| 26.08.2021 | Govt Says Yes To Air India Employees’ Main Demands: Leaves, PF & Health Insurance | The government is looking to complete the sale by the end of the year.
The government has given in to Air India (AI) employees’ demands.
Contents
1 Govt To Bear Costs And Provide Support
2 Avoiding Legal Battle
3 When And How Trouble Began
... |
| 09.04.2021 | Now Withdraw Cash From Digital Wallets; Interoperability Mandatory For All e-Wallets | Cash withdrawals (to a limit) are also now permitted from non-bank wallets or PPI issuers in what Das calls a confidence- building measure.
The RBI has made interoperability mandatory in a move that would bring digi wallets on par with trad... |
| 17.03.2021 | Mumbai, Delhi Airports Being Sold To Private Firms For Next 60 Years; Income Will Be Shared With Govt | Mumbai and Delhi airports are not being “sold out” according to false claims
Responding to claims that the Delhi and Mumbai airports are being “sold out” completely to private stakeholders, Civil Aviation Minister Hardeep Singh Puri tweeted... |
| 16.02.2021 | End Of H1B Visa? TCS, Infosys, Wipro Focus Hard On Localised Hiring In US, Europe | Indian cos are starting to pivot given pandemic restrictions, reduce dependence on work visas
Thanks to pandemic travel limitations and localised hiring picking up speed, dependence on foreign workers serving IT firms is expected to dwindle... |
| 23.01.2021 | You Can Be Arrested For Social Media Posts Against Govt Officials, MPs, MLAs In This State | You Can Be Arrested For Social Media Posts Against Govt Officials, MPs, MLAs In This State
As per new reports coming in, if your social media has any offensive posts against the government, ministers, Parliamentarians, legislators, and stat... |
| 30.12.2020 | How we survived: Third global crisis in 20 years, yet Bharat Matrimony is going strong | 'How We Survived' is a series of stories on businesses—big and small—that innovated or pivoted during the coronavirus crisis to survive. For all the stories in this series, click here October 24, 2008. ‘Black Friday’ is indelibly etched in ... |
| 03.10.2020 | Meet Vani Kola, the unicorn hunter, at Global Trends Festival 2020 | Global Trends Festival is one of the world's most prestigious events which will be live from Oct 19-23.
While nobel laureates, some of the biggest political and corporate icons will provide thought leadership, it's a great platform to netwo... |
| 08.09.2020 | ‘We Don’t Feel Safe’: Indians Living in Border Towns Are Scared After ‘Abductions’ by Chinese Army | Tadak Pakba no longer feels safe in Daporijo, his hometown in the Upper Subansiri district in the northeast Indian state of Arunachal Pradesh. Pakba, a 30-year-old student leader, knows the perils of living at the border.
Daporijo, with an ... |
| 14.12.2018 | «Jio-фикация» Индии: миллиардер Мукеш Амбани обеспечил 1,3 млрд жителей 4G-связью и в пять раз обрушил цены на интернет Статьи редакции... | Аналитики считают, что к 2021 году цифровая платформа нефтяного магната может стать лидером индийского телеком-рынка.
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| 31.01.2017 | Nem a Sony esperava que a decadência dos DVDs e Blu-ray fosse tão rápida | A Sony divulgou nesta segunda-feira (30) que sua divisão de produção e distribuição de filmes vai fechar o último trimestre de 2016 com perda de 112,1 bilhões de ienes, o equivalente a R$ 3,07 bilhões. O motivo? Nem os japoneses esperavam q... |
| 21.03.2016 | Shubhra Chadda Speaks how Chumbak can Magnetize People for India | This story is not only about Shubhra Chadda, the CEO and founder of Chumbak.com, but it is also an inspiration of a perfect married life. The couple launched a business by selling their flat and never knew their business will earn them much... |
| 23.03.2015 | India Is Being Overtaken by Armies of Defiant Monkeys | Spend about five minutes in New Delhi and you'll probably meet a monkey hanging above the entrance to a nicotine shop, attempting to insert its head up its own anus. Amusing for a tourist, sure, but it's become an increasingly worrying sigh... |
| 17.01.2014 | Apple Turns To Old iPhone Models, And Lower Prices, To Woo Users In India | Executives at Apple in India are preparing to celebrate passing $1 billion in annual revenue in the country for the first time this financial year.
But Apple today remains a small player in India, accounting for less than 2% of all mobile s... |
| 10.01.2014 | Movie review: Yaariyan is regressive, bizarre and immature | Debutante director Divya Khosla Kumar's debut attempt at direction seems to have failed miserably. The film that targets youth probably doesn't consider them intelligent enough.
Saibal Chatterjee, NDTV
Rating: *
Critic's take: Debutante dir... |
| 18.10.2013 | Wishberg Raises $150K To Help Users Achieve Their Goals | Wishberg, a startup that lets users share a “bucket list” of their goals, announced that it has raised $150,000 in seed funding from India Quotient, a venture capital fund that focuses on early stage companies. The round also includes parti... |
| 30.08.2013 | As Uber Drives Into India, It’s Shifting Its Emerging Market Strategy Up A Gear | Transportation tech startup Uber is continuing its aggressive expansion across Asia. As of this week, it is now live in India, starting first with a luxury car service in its tech capital, Bangalore. The subcontinent may boast a potential m... |
| 19.08.2008 | Delhi-Based E-Waste Recycler Attero Gets Funding From DFJ, NEA IndoUS | Exclusive: Delhi-based e-waste management company Attero Recycling Pvt. Ltd has received series A funding from Draper Fisher Jurvetson and NEA IndoUS Ventures. The amount invested is not known. Attero was founded in 2007 by the brothers, Ro... |
| 12.08.2008 | Why SPV Is A Preferred Route For Real Estate Investors | As the Reserve Bank of India has been tightening the lending screws on the real estate sector, special purpose vehicles have become a preferred route to raise money for real estate companies from private equity players. “Private equity play... |
| 18.04.2008 | Vodafone will reportedly carry iPhone in India in September | reader comments with 0 posters participating
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| 01.11.2007 | PurpleYogi, the 1999 personalization company, finally hits pay dirt | PurpleYogi, one of the earliest Silicon Valley companies to focus on “extreme personalization of the Internet,” has finally been sold for $158 million after a dramatic series of twists in business strategy.
The Mountain View, Calif., compan... |
| 27.08.2007 | Roundup: Hipihi, Twitter-Gmail, Vadver, iFamily, HeyNielsen, Gphone, Bloglines | Here’s the latest action:
China’s virtual worlds censored— China’s virtual world Hipihi reflects the real-world culture of its users. Players can have virtual sex in private rooms, but can’t engage in frank political talk. GigaOm has a revi... |
| 24.08.2007 | GPhone to Appear in Two Weeks? | Indian news service Rediff.com is reporting that Indian telecom carriers Bharti Airtel and Vodafone Essar are in negotiations with Google over the search giant’s plans to go head-to-head with Apple’s iPhone with its own search-centric mobil... |
| 24.08.2007 | Could The GPhone Be Nigh? | Todays completely unsubstantiated rumor comes from Rediff News, a usually well respected source of news based in India. Rediff is reporting that the Google Phone is set to be launched in 2 weeks time! The GPhone is said to simultaneously la... |
| 24.08.2007 | GPhone To Launch in India, Start Lining Up Now! | In what appears to be an amalgam of rumor, innuendo, and just making shit up, Rediff India Abroad is saying that Google will launch something sometime — perhaps a fortnight from now? — in India and is in talks with Bharti Airtel and Vodafon... |
| 16.07.2007 | Someone May Be Looking To Buy Rediff | Today’s unsubstantiated takeover rumor comes from the Hindustan Times, who reports “US-based Internet giants such as Google and Yahoo are eyeing Rediff.com India Ltd, which runs one of India’s most popular consumer Internet portals”.
Mumbai... |
| 20.07.2006 | Indian govenrment, on blockade: It wasn’t us! Might take action. | The Indian government, understandably embarrassed by the blame it is getting for the bungled censorship of a list of select blogs, is pointing the finger at the Internet service providers, and might take action.
This from Rediff India Abroa... |
| 25.01.2005 | Rodney King Style Cameraphone Video Gets Creator Beaten As Well | The idea that cameraphones will be used to record crimes in action and publicize them — a la Rodney King — isn’t a new idea. That seems to be exactly what happened in India, when someone (who just happened to be a documentary film producer)... |
| - | Paytm Extortion Case: New Twists Emerge, Questions On Nature Of Stolen Data Remain Unanswered | Paytm vice president, communications, Sonia Dhawan, her husband Roopak Jain, along with another Paytm employee, Devendra Kumar, have been sent on police remand for 14 days by the chief judicial magistrate (CJM), Gautam Buddha Nagar, (Noida)... |
| - | Acquiring Life Insurance Companies Next In Line For Sachin Bansal’s Navi | Sachin Bansal-led financial service company Navi Technologies is looking to add two more companies in its bucket list. The company is said to be in talks to acquire two private life insurance companies Future General Life Insurance and DHFL... |
| - | Sachin Bansal’s Navi General Insurance Launches Monthly EMI-Based Insurance Products | Bengaluru-based Navi General Insurance has introduced a monthly subscription (EMI) based insurance product instead of paying the annual premium upfront to make health insurance affordable.
Navi General Insurance is a wholly owned subsidiary... |
| - | Foxconn Looks To Invest $5 Bn in India To Establish Manufacturing Hub | Image Credits
Foxconn Technology Group is looking to invest up to $5 Bn in India, to explore the possibility of establishing a manufacturing hub parallel to China. The Indian hub will be instrumental for export to markets across Europe and ... |
| - | Indian bourse engulfed in scandal over mystery guru | Around the National Stock Exchange of India, Chitra Ramkrishna was practically her own institution. A founding member of the bourse, she helped shape it into the world’s largest derivatives exchange, opening trading to a growing middle clas... |
| - | Cricbuzz, Dream11 Ban Pakistan Super League Post Pulwama Attack | Image Credit: www.bizasialive.com
On February 14 India witnessed a ghastly attack in Pulwama district in Jammu and Kashmir when a convoy of vehicles carrying 40 Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) jawans was attacked by a suicide bomber fro... |
| - | Online Lingerie Startup Zivame Applies For Single Brand Retail License | Bengaluru-based online lingerie retailer, Zivame has reportedly applied to the government for the license to function as a single brand retailer.
The development comes in lieu of a policy that came into existence in 2015, which allows compa... |
| - | Redbus to be Acquired by ibibo Group For $138 million [Updated] | The biggest deal in the Indian internet startup scene is on the verge of completion. ibiboGroup, a joint venture between South Africa’s Naspers and Chinese Internet company Tencent has acquired a controlling stake in online bus ticketing fi... |
| - | Early Stage Investor Firm Kae Capital To Raise $60 Mn For Third VC Fund | Early stage investor Kae Capital is reportedly in talks to raise its third venture capital fund of up to $60 Mn. With the new funding, the company is expected to increase its funding ticket size to start from a million, compared to the exis... |
| - | 36 International Venture Capitalists in India Actively Exploring The Market | Image Credit
Venture Capitalists in India play a key role in fostering the growth of startups. In the past few years, India’s startup ecosystem has taken off at full speed, making it the world’s fastest growing startup ecosystem. At present... |