Adani to battle Reliance, Walmart in India’s e-commerce, payments race, report says

India’s Adani Group is in discussions to venture into e-commerce and digital payments, according to Financial Times, as the conglomerate seeks to diversify its portfolio and compete with Mukesh Ambani’s…

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Indian EV startup Zypp Electric secures ENEOS backing to fund expansion to Southeast Asia

Indian startup Zypp Electric plans to use fresh investment from Japanese oil and energy conglomerate ENEOS to take its EV rental service into Southeast Asia early next year, TC has…

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Meesho, an Indian social commerce with 150M transacting users, secures $275M in new funding

Meesho, which has raised over $1.2 billion to date, is increasingly making inroads with value-conscious customers in smaller Indian cities and towns. Meesho, a leading e-commerce startup in India with…

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Scammers found planting online betting ads on Indian government websites

Some Indian government websites have allowed scammers to plant advertisements capable of redirecting visitors to online betting platforms. TC discovered around four dozen “gov.in” website links associated with Indian states,…

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