Deepsekhar Choudhury
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New Delhi, DL, India
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Exclusive: Meta mulls a Twitter competitor codenamed ‘P92’ that will be interoperable with Mastodon
P92 team wants to use data of all Instagram users regardless of their participation in the new platform being planned by Meta, according to sources → Read More
Zerodha’s Nithin Kamath: It has been a painful bull market for active traders
Zerodha founder talks about where the equity market is heading, passive mutual funds being undersold, the worst that is yet to happen in the startup funding winter, fixed deposits and a lot more. → Read More
Prakash Sikaria, head of Flipkart's Shopsy vertical, quits company
Flipkart has set a GMV target of $1.5 billion for Shopsy alone by the end of 2022 → Read More
Understanding Zomato’s $570-million acquisition of Blinkit: poison pill or panacea?
After two failed attempts at cracking the grocery market, Zomato has acquired Blinkit in a last-ditch attempt to gain a foothold in the space. Meanwhile, the food delivery market in India is seen to be growing slower than earlier → Read More
CarTrade’s Dud Listing Sounds A Note Of Caution For Tech IPOs
The stock fell from its listing price of INR 1,600 to INR 1,491 by the end of Friday’s trading → Read More
Zomato Share Price Rises 8.7% To INR 136 After First Quarterly Results Post IPO
Zomato's loss attributable to equity shareholders fell to INR 356.2 Cr in the June quarter of FY22 from INR 812.8 Cr in the year-ago period → Read More
Zomato EBITDA Loss Rises 42% To INR 170 Cr In June Quarter, Operating Revenue Up 28% At INR 7,579 Cr
Zomato’s revenue from operations increased from INR 591.9 Cr in the quarter ended March to INR 757.9 Cr in the June quarter → Read More
IPO-Bound Paytm To Expand ESOP Pool By 154% With 3.7 Cr Shares
The EGM will also see the board approve the appointment of Neeraj Arora, the former chief business officer of Whatsapp, Ashit Ranjit Lilani, managing partner of Saama Capital, as non-executive independent directors → Read More
Logistics Startup BlackBuck Raises $67 Mn To Become 15th Unicorn Of 2021
Bengaluru-based logistics company Blackbuck has raised $67 Mn of equity financing in its Series E Round and has entered the unicorn club. → Read More
Gaming Soonicorn Mobile Premier League Set To Enter $10.73-Bn US Market
MPL allows developers to monetise their games right from day 1 of publishing through its cash tournaments and contests. It claims that 10 game developers on its platform earned INR 10 Cr in a year between November 2019 to October 2020 → Read More
On An Acquisition Spree, Pratilipi Relies On Debt To Power The Next Phase Of Growth
Started in 2015 as a platform for vernacular short- and long-form fiction, the startup currently has 24 Mn monthly active users → Read More
PharmEasy Acquires 66.1% Stake In Listed Diagnostics Chain Thyrocare For INR 4,546 Cr
Thyrocare’s share price has risen 187% to INR 1,450.35 over the past one year — when the country has been reeling under the Covid-19 pandemic → Read More
[The Outline By Inc42 Plus] Second Wave Reopens Gig Workers’ Wounds
Platform workers get a raw deal even as tech ‘employees’ get attractive Covid benefits amid the second wave → Read More
Exclusive: WhatsApp Strikes Back On Data Privacy Criticism, Alleges Zomato, Ola, BigBasket Collect Same Or Even More Data
WhatsApp’s affidavit also names Truecaller, government’s Covid tracker app Aarogya Setu, and US tech majors Google and Microsoft as examples → Read More
Zomato In Q3 FY21: Order Value At All-Time High Of INR 29,810 Cr; 1.4 Mn Zomato Pro Members
Zomato filed its draft red herring prospectus with Sebi today to raise INR 8,250 Cr ($1.1 Bn) in an initial public offering → Read More
Nadella, Pichai, Balaji Srinivasan Among Global Tech Leaders Promising Support For Covid-Ravaged India
Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella and Google CEO Sundar Pichai’s statements came after the US lifted an embargo on exporting raw materials for vaccine production → Read More
[The Outline By Inc42 Plus] #StartupsVsCovid19 — 2.0
How another round of Covid-19 lockdowns and curbs amid the second wave will impact Indian startups and founders. → Read More
SaaS Startup Chargebee Becomes Unicorn, Triples Valuation In $125 Mn Series G
The SaaS platform helps automate revenue operations of subscription-based businesses and caters to more than 3,000 customers currently → Read More
[The Outline By Inc42 Plus] Video OTTs’ Moment Of Truth
After a blockbuster year, video OTT platforms face multiple headwinds → Read More
BREAKING: Facebook, WhatsApp Challenge CCI Probe Order In Delhi High Court
Messaging apps have petitioned the Delhi HC to dismiss the CCI order that had called for an investigation into WhatsApp’s privacy policy update. → Read More