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Wipro Chief Azim Premji Denies Media Report on Selling Wipro stake

6Jun By PriyankaNo Comments

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Wipro Chief Azim Premji Denies Media Report on Selling Wipro stake

Wipro Limited Chairman Azim Premji has denied a media report that promoters of the IT company were evaluating sale of their holdings and said he "remains committed to Wipro." In his letter to Wiproites, he had termed the news article reportedly published in this regard as "baseless and malicious." A news website had yesterday quoting banking sources reported that the promoters of the Indias third-largest IT services company are in the early stages of evaluating the sale of the company or some of its units, and have even approached investment banks. In the letter sent out late last night to its employees, Premji said he continued to be "incredibly excited" about the potential of the IT industry and Wipro. "Over the past 50 years, I have seen Wipro grow from a small regional play...

Kotak Mahindra Banks Promoter Uday Kotak Sold His Shares

22May By AnkitaNo Comments

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Kotak Mahindra Banks Promoter Uday Kotak Sold His Shares

Kotak Mahindra Banks promoter Uday Kotak today sold 1.8 crore shares of the private sector lender for a little over Rs 1,687 crore, bringing down his stake to below 30 per cent to meet the RBI directive. The shares were purchased by several entities, including Canadian pension fund Caisse de Depot et Placement du Quebec and Fidelity Funds. According to bulk deal data available with the BSE, Uday Kotak, Vice Chairman and Managing Director, sold a total of 1.8 crore shares, amounting to 0.95 per cent stake of the bank. The shares were offloaded on an average price of Rs 937.35, valuing the transaction at Rs 1,687.23 crore, the data showed. Following the transaction, Kotaks personal stake in the bank declined to 29.79 per cent from 30.74 per cent. Earlier in March, Kotak had so...

Google CEO Sundar Pichai Received Nearly $200 Million Compensation in 2016

29Apr By AdityaNo Comments

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Google CEO Sundar Pichai Received Nearly $200 Million Compensation in 2016

Google's 44-year-old India-born CEO Sundar Pichai received nearly USD 200 million in compensation last year, double the amount he got in 2015. Pichai received a salary of USD 650,000 last year, slightly less than the USD 652,500 he earned in 2015. But the long-time Google employee, who was named CEO during the company's re-organisation in August 2015, received a stock award of USD 198.7 million in 2016, roughly double his 2015 stock award of USD 99.8 million. The company's compensation committee attributed the lavish pay to Pichai's promotion to CEO and "numerous successful product launches", the CNN reported. Larry Page, Google's co-founder and previous CEO, shifted his focus to growing new businesses under the Alphabet umbrella. Under Pichai, Google has boosted sales from ...

Snapchat Stock Falls as Alleged CEO Comments on India

18Apr By AdityaNo Comments

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Snapchat Stock Falls as Alleged CEO Comments on India

Shares of Snap fell 1.5 percent as the Snapchat owner faced criticism for comments allegedly made by its CEO about not prioritising growth in India and Spain because they were "poor" countries. The dip put Snap on track to close at its lowest level in nearly a month, a bad sign following its $3.4 billion public listing that was the hottest by a technology company in three years. Twitter users using the #boycottsnapchat hashtag called for uninstalling the Snapchat app after a legal document unsealed last week alleged that Snap Chief Executive Evan Spiegel in 2015 said he was uninterested in prioritising growth in India and Spain because they were "poor". The legal document filed in a Los Angeles state court concerns claims made in a lawsuit filed by an employee who left the company...

Flipkart Offers Additional ESOPs to Eligible Employees

13Apr By AdityaNo Comments

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Flipkart Offers Additional ESOPs to Eligible Employees

E-commerce major Flipkart will issue additional shares to eligible employees in efforts to ensure their stake remains at a "steady level" after the latest fund raising round that came at a lower valuation. The Bengaluru-based firm, which competes with the likes of Amazon and Snapdeal, has recently raised USD 1.4 billion at a valuation of USD 11.6 billion. This is lower than the previous funding raised in 2015, when Flipkart was valued at USD 15.2 billion. Employees who are part of ESOP (employee stock option plan) programmes across the Flipkart group, including Myntra and PhonePe, were informed of the move through an email. Flipkart Group CEO Binny Bansal said the differential grant was being made, so that the total dollar value of options allotted to an employee remain unchang...

Alibaba Acquired 1% More Equity in Paytm, Up Stake to 41%

7Mar By AnkitaNo Comments

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Alibaba Acquired 1% More Equity in Paytm, Up Stake to 41%

Reliance Capital has sold its nearly 1 percent stake in popular digital payments firm Paytm for Rs 275 crore to China's Alibaba Group in a deal reaping huge gains for the Anil Ambani-led group firm. The financial services arm of Reliance Group had invested Rs 10 crore for this stake in Paytm. The deal gives a valuation of over USD 4 billion to Paytm, which is already backed by Alibaba group as a strategic investor. Sources said that Reliance Capital has retained a stake in Paytm e-Commerce, which it had got free of cost by virtue of the investment in the parent firm. In the latest fund-raising round, Paytm e-Commerce was valued at USD 1 billion. A Reliance Capital spokesperson declined to comment on the deal while Paytm spokesperson also did not comment. Earlier, Reliance C...

Times Group Acquires Small Stake in Flipkart For 260 Crore

18Feb By NitishNo Comments

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Times Group Acquires Small Stake in Flipkart For 260 Crore

Bennett, Coleman and Co. Ltd (BCCL) also known as Times Group acquires a small stake in India’s leading e-commerce firm Flipkart. As per the Times of India acquisition strategy, Flipkart’s stake dilution to BCCL is for cash and advertising space in the latter’s media properties. The story was first reported by Mint. Times group made a private investment about Rs 260 crore to buy a warrant for Class B equity shares in Flipkart as per the sourcing documents filed with the Registrar of Companies and from Tofler, a company research platform. The nature of the Flipkart-BCCL transaction is commonly known as a private treaty deal. Rs 26 crore hard cash will be paid instantly to Flipkart, the rest of the amount will be paid when it converts the warrant into equity shares of Flipkart. BCCL...

Reliance Capital Will Monetize 1% Stake in Paytm

17Feb By NitishNo Comments

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Reliance Capital Will Monetize 1% Stake in Paytm

According to the sources, Reliance Capital will sold its 1% share in Paytm to stay focus on its core business. Reliance capital owned 1% in Paytm and the valuation of the e-wallet company was valued at USD 4.8 billion. The news was first published by Moneycontrol website. The leading investor in the Paytm, Alibaba Group is the potential buyer of the share. In December Paytm CEO has sold his 1% equity of Paytm’s parent firm One97 Communications for about Rs 325 crore to invest in its new venture Paytm payment bank. Paytm, which is run by One97 Communications, created two separate entities -Paytm E-commerce and Paytm Payments Bank. The e-wallet business will connect with payment bank in future using payment bank. On the question of Alibaba shares in Payment Bank, Paytm CEO denied an...

Indian Online Travel Portal Yatra.com Listed on Nasdaq Today

20Dec By NitishNo Comments

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Indian Online Travel Portal Yatra.com Listed on Nasdaq Today

Online travel firm Yatra Online Inc has been listed on the American stock exchange, Nasdaq, under the ticker symbol "YTRA" with effect from today. Yatra said it has completed the transaction with Terrapin 3 Acquisition Corporation (TRTL), which will result in TRTL becoming a partially owned subsidiary of Yatra. As a part of this process, Yatra has raised more than USD 92.5 million of primary capital from global investors, and the merged entity, 'Yatra Online Inc', will continue to be led by Yatra's management team, Yatra Online Inc said in a statement. Commenting on the development, Yatra Co-founder and CEO Dhruv Shringi said: "It's a matter of great pride for us to be one of the few Indian companies to be listed on Nasdaq". Over the course of the past decade, Yatra has established i...

PepsiCo Franchisee Varun Beverages Gets Sebi Nod For IPO

7Sep By Press Trust of IndiaNo Comments

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PepsiCo Franchisee Varun Beverages Gets Sebi Nod For IPO

Varun Beverages, franchisee for soft drinks maker PepsiCo, has received markets regulator Sebis approval to raise over Rs 1,000 crore through an initial public offering. Besides, leading logistics service and solutions provider, Seaways Shipping & Logistics has also got Sebis nod to float an IPO. Varun Beverages and Seaways Shipping & Logistics had filed their draft red herring prospectuses with the Securities and Exchange Board of India (Sebi) in June and March, respectively. The two firms got the regulator approval on August 31, as per the latest update. The initial public offer (IPO) of Varun Beverages entails sale of up to 2.5 crore shares, including fresh issue of 1.5 crore shares and offloading of stake by the promoters. Apart from fresh issue of 1.5 crore equity sh...

Mark Zuckerberg Donates $95M Facebook Shares in Charity

21Aug By NitishNo Comments

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Mark Zuckerberg Donates $95M Facebook Shares in Charity

IANS- In the first gesture to fulfill his pledge that he and his wife made last year, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg has sold $95 million of the social networking giant's shares. According to a US regulatory filing, The Chan Zuckerberg Foundation and CZI Holdings LLC sold Facebook shares worth $95 million before taxes, Forbes reported on Saturday. The sales likely netted more than $85 million after capital gains taxes, the report added. The couple plans to give away no more than $1 billion worth of stock each year through 2018. Last December, Zuckerberg and his wife Priscilla Chan pledged to donate 99% of their Facebook shares - about $45 billion - to advance human potential and promote equality for children. Declaring the "Chan Zuckerberg Initiative" as they welcomed their first...

Pokemon GO Makers Market Cap Doubles to $42 billion

19Jul By AnkitaNo Comments

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Pokemon GO Makers Market Cap Doubles to $42 billion

Shares of Japan's Nintendo Co soared another 14 percent on Tuesday, more than doubling the firm's market capitalization to 4.5 trillion yen ($42.5 billion) in just seven sessions since the mobile game Pokemon GO was launched in the United States. The phenomenal success of Pokemon GO - now available in 35 countries, the majority in Europe, and most recently in Canada - has triggered massive buying in Nintendo shares, surprising even some seasoned market players. "I've never seen the trend of such a big company's shares changing so quickly in such a short period of time," said Takashi Oba, senior strategist at Okasan Securities. Nintendo shares ended Tuesday up 14.4 percent at 31,770 yen, bringing its gains to more than 100 percent since the launch of the game on July 6. Turnover in ...