Ola, India’s most popular mobile app for transportation, has partnered with Apollo Hospitals to create India’s first ever comprehensive medical programme for driver-partners. Under this programme, Ola drivers will be equipped to provide medical assistance in case of on-road emergencies. Driver partners will also be able to opt for a ‘My Apollo Card’. Designed and …
ICICI Bank has blocked transactions on Flipkart-owned digital payments app PhonePe, accusing it of indulging in restrictive practices and breaking the Unified Payment Interface (UPI) guidelines of interoperability. The bank began blocking transactions on PhonePe starting Friday, with Flipkart Online CEO Sameer Nigam taking to Twitter to protest the move. He claimed that the bank hadn’t …
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Taxi aggregatorOla on Wednesday announced the appointment of Shalabh Seth as the CEO of Ola Fleet Technologies, a wholly owned leasing subsidiary. He joinsOla at a time when the company is experiencing rapid growth and is transforming the ride-sharing industry through product and business innovation. As CEO ofOla Fleet Technologies, Shalabh will drive supply growth through leasing and other driver focused initiatives, …
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With an aim to prevent road deaths, online cab-hailing firm Uber on Thursday rolled out a series of road safety features in its drivers’ app in 29 cities across the country. The features were first rolled out for driver-partners in Bengaluru as part of a multi-city global pilot. The drivers will get daily reports about their …
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Flipkart India Pvt Ltd, the largest unit of India’s biggest e-commerce marketplace, was able to increase revenues by 43 percent and cut losses by over 34 percent in the financial year 2015-16. Flipkart has set up a complex holding structure, with several entities listed in Singapore, making it hard to ascertain the exact revenue and …
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India finally charted out a fresh set of rules for the transport industry, which means Ola and Uber now have a handbook to refer to when they are in doubt. That should be a great relief to the app-based taxi startups, who have gone on and off the roads in India due to a lack of …
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A new feature update on theUber App in India that allows for tracking the location of a passenger after the ride has completed has raised privacy concerns. According to reports, the feature asks the app user to give his or her consent to the company to track their location before, during and up to five …
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Amazon India’s wholesale business has received Rs 160 crore in capital infusion, according to latest filings. In September too, Amazon Wholesale (India) Private Limited received a tranche of Rs 115 crore from the parent company. The online marketplace’s wholesale arm, which started in 2013, runs Amazon Business – a business – to – business (B2B) …
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Taxi hailing app company Uber on Tuesday announced the launch of an android application — ‘UberFleet’– for its fleet partners in the country. The company said the app is designed to improve the overall productivity for fleet owners by making the process of managing drivers more efficient and reducing their downtime. “UberFleet”allows fleet partners with driver …
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One97 Communications, the parent company of payments platform Paytm, has announced that it plans to merge the Paytm Wallet business with its newly-incorporated Paytm Payments Bank division. Paytm’s parent company, headed by Vijay Shekhar Sharma, is waiting for the requisite RBI approvals to start operations of the Paytm Payments Bank. While ownership of the Paytm Wallet …
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