French online carpooling marketplace BlaBlaCar says India now accounts for ~33% of its carpool passengers and expects to reach ~150M passengers globally in 2025
Every few weekends, 21-year-old student Lavanya Jain opens the BlaBlaCar app to find a lift from Noida on the outskirts … X: @techcrunch . LinkedIn: Nicolas Brusson X: @techcrunch : BlaBlaCar is seein...
How a New Delhi startup event dubbed the “world's biggest funding festival” plunged into chaos, with participants alleging they were lured with false promises
Meryl Sebastian / BBC : Tweets: @soutikbbc and @sansip Tweets: Soutik Biswas / @soutikbbc : Participants believed that PM Modi, Sundar Pichai and Elon Musk, among others, would be coming. But the eve...
Indian police arrested 45 people and shut down a scam call center in Noida, alleging they used illicitly obtained info of Flipkart users to scam them
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India-based financial services startup Paytm raises $1B led by T. Rowe Price, valuing the company at ~$16B; Paytm has raised more than $3.3B to date
Paytm said on Monday it has raised $1 billion in a new financing round as the Noida-headquartered firm, which once dominated …
Samsung says it is building the world's largest smartphone factory in Noida, India with the capacity of 120M units per year
- Indian PM Modi, South Korea's Moon to visit Samsung facility — India is the fastest growing smartphone major market — Samsung Electronics Co. will open …