R&B star Akon has been named Chief Creative Officer of technology company Royole. The 43-year-old “Locked Up” singer has teamed up with bosses at the company to work on upcoming products including the Moon – a portable 3D virtual mobile theatre, which also comes with noise-cancelling headphones, reported Billboard. Akon said he was thrilled about […]
Mobikwik – the largest independent mobile payments company in India with over 32 million users and a network of 100000 merchants has launched cash pick up in Surat. With this launch, MobiKwik users in Surat can now load their wallet with cash from the convenience of their homes or offices. Upon request, a MobiKwik representative […]
SoftBank Group Corp said Wednesday that Ken Miyauchi, head of the group’s Japanese telecommunications operations, would become president and chief operating officer to replace Nikesh Arora. Arora, the former Google executive handpicked by the SoftBank founder Masayoshi Son as his successor, has abruptly quit as president after it became clear that Son wanted to remain […]
In line with trending terms like “Brexit” and “Rexit”, now Twitterati have coined a new expression “Nexit” after India-born Nikesh Arora announced his surprise resignation as President and COO at SoftBank. For the past several days, two words Brexit and Rexit have been trending. Brexit in short stands for Britains possible exit from the European […]
Having made a string of technology investments in India, Japanese telecom and Internet giant SoftBank has said its investments in the country will top USD 10 billion in 5-10 years. SoftBank, which owns one of Japans biggest mobile carriers and a controlling stake in US-based Sprint Corp, will make its first USD 350 million investment […]
Nikesh Arora, a Ex-Googler and the president and COO of SoftBank Group, received heafty pay check of $73 million (8.04 billion yen) in 2016. Arora’s compensation includes $14.2 million (1.56 billion) paid by other SoftBank units. After Google, Arora had joined SoftBank as its vice-chairman and CEO of SB Group US (previously SoftBank Internet and Media […]
MobiKwik, India’s largest independent mobile payments’ network today announced that it has registered 5000 percent growth on Big Basket, India’s largest online supermarket Bigbasket offers over 20,000 products from over 1,000 brands and is present in 25 cities across the country including Bangalore, Hyderabad, Mumbai, Pune, Chennai and Delhi-NCR. Upasana Taku, Co-founder, MobiKwik said, “Grocery […]
As per the mint report, Stayzilla has raised $13 million Series C funding from existing investors Matrix Partners and Nexus Ventures, according to documents filed with the Registrar of Companies. In report the funding round of online aggregator of budget hotels split into three tranches of $8.8 million (Rs.58.5 crore), $1.9 million (Rs.13 crore) and […]
Japanese telecom giant SoftBank today said its investee companies in India – Snapdeal, Oyo Rooms, Ola and Hike – saw good traction even though its own profits dropped 27 percent for the fiscal ended March. SoftBank’s sales for 2015-16 totalled 9.15 trillion yen ($84 billion), up nearly 8 percent from the previous financial year. Chief […]
Mobile wallet company Mobikwik today said it has raised USD 50 million (about Rs 330 crore) in funding, led by Japanese payments firm Gateway and Taiwanese chip maker MediaTek. Its existing investors such as Sequoia Capital and Treeline Asia also participated in the current round of funding. The company said it will use the proceeds […]
Two self-driving cars on Saturday afternoon wrapped up a 2,000-km (1,240 miles) journey in China’s first long-distance road test for autonomous vehicles. The vehicles, produced by Chang’an Automobile, left the southwestern metropolis of Chongqing on Tuesday and arrived at Beijing at about 5 p.m. Saturday. The cars successfully drove distance from other vehicles, changed lanes, […]
Ola Money, the popular digital payment solution from Ola, India’s leading mobile app for transportation, today announced that it has partnered with Mumbai Metro, which will enable commuters to recharge their prepaid metro cards by using the Ola Money app. Ola Money is also the exclusive digital payment partner for RSRTC- the Rajasthan State Road […]