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Ambani’s Reliance targets Indian fashion e-commerce with low-cost model
Reliance Industries, run by India’s richest man Mukesh Ambani, is gearing up to deploy a winning strategy from its past playbook for the fashion market: low-cost products. Ajio, Reliance’s ret
Ambani bats for cricket glory as Disney scales back in India
Mukesh Ambani’s Jio, the South Asian telecom powerhouse, has long sought to entice its customer base with a plethora of services aimed at boosting subscriber retention. Despite amassing over 425
India’s retail giant Reliance to accept CBDC at stores
Reliance Retail, India’s largest retail chain, will start accepting retail payments in digital rupee in a move that could supercharge the adoption of the country’s recently launched CBDC. The Muke
Indian giant Jio makes cloud gaming push
Mukesh Ambani, one of Asia’s richest men, has made a splash in many industries over the past three decades. It now appears he has set his eyes on a new sector: Gaming. JioGames, part of Reliance Ind
India’s Jio says it has rolled out 5G to over 100 cities in 100 days
Jio Platforms said on Wednesday it has rolled out 5G to 101 cities in just as many days as the Indian telecom giant looks to court customers aggressively with faster data speeds. The firm said on Wedn
Meta and Jio launch grocery shopping on WhatsApp in India
Meta and an e-commerce venture between India’s Reliance Retail and Jio Platforms are bringing grocery shopping to WhatsApp in what they said was a global-first end-to-end shopping experience on
Reliance Jio to spend $25B on 5G rollout, debut in October and reach every town by 2023 end
Reliance Jio Infocomm, India’s top telecom mobile operator, has earmarked a spending of $25 billion on the rollout of its 5G services that it plans to debut in key cities this Diwali in October,
Ambani’s Reliance Jio top buyer in India’s $19 billion 5G sale
Telecom operators in India agreed to spend $19 billion in the government auction for the 5G airwaves, New Delhi said Monday, the highest from them in any spectrum sale, as the world’s second largest
India receives $18 billion bids for 5G auction, expects rollout in September
India received bids worth $18 billion on the first day of an auction for the 5G airwaves from tycoons including Mukesh Ambani and Gautam Adani as the race begins for faster data in the world’s secon
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Mukesh Ambani steps down from Reliance Jio, son named chairman
Akash Ambani, the eldest son of Indian tycoon Mukesh Ambani, has been named as the chairman of Reliance’s digital empire Jio in what analysts view as a clear illustration of a leadership transit
Disney and Viacom18 winners in $6.2 billion cricket rights
Disney, Viacom18 and Times Internet have won the five-year media rights for the Indian Premier League cricket tournament, the Board of Control for Cricket in India said Tuesday, beating rivals includi
India to own 35.8% in Vodafone Idea after conversion of dues
Vodafone Idea said on Tuesday it is giving the Indian government a 35.8% stake in the company after its board approved conversion of dues and spectrum auction installments into equity to save the thir
Google and Jio’s $87 smartphone with custom Android OS goes on sale in India November 4
Google and top Indian telecom network Jio Platforms said on Friday that their much-anticipated budget smartphone, JioPhone Next, will go on sale in the world’s second-largest smartphone market o
Google and Jio delay their India smartphone launch
The JioPhone Next, the much-awaited smartphone designed by Google and India’s Jio Platforms to tap hundreds of millions of users in the world’s second-largest internet market, won’t
Google and India’s Jio Platforms announce budget Android smartphone JioPhone Next
Jio Platforms, run by India’s richest man (Mukesh Ambani), and Google on Thursday unveiled the JioPhone Next, an affordable Android smartphone, as the top Indian telecom operator and the American gi
KKR closes $15 billion fund targeting consumption and urbanization in Asia
KKR has just closed $15 billion for its Asia-focused private equity fund, exceeding its original target size after receiving “strong support” from new and existing global investors, includ
Airtel Africa sells $200M mobile money business stake to TPG’s Rise Fund
In February, London-listed telecom Airtel Africa said it was looking to sell a minority stake in its mobile money business in a bid to raise cash and sell off some assets. The firm seems to have found
Forget winning, can Amazon survive in India?
During a visit to India in 2014, Amazon chief executive Jeff Bezos made a splashy announcement: His firm was investing $2 billion in the South Asian nation, just a year after beginning operations in t
India cabinet approves setting up a ‘massive network’ of public Wi-Fi hotspots
More than one billion people in India today have a mobile connection, thanks in part to the proliferation of low-cost Android smartphones and the world’s cheapest mobile data plans in recent yea