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Reliance, India’s largest conglomerate, reduced its workforce by 11%, or more than 42,000 people, in the financial year ended March 2024. 

Indian conglomerate Reliance slashed over 42,000 jobs last financial year

Reliance Industries, India’s most valuable company, may consider spinning off its telecom arm Jio for a public listing as early as 2025, Jefferies said in a research note, with investors…

Reliance may list Jio at $112B valuation next year, Jefferies says

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Investors chase wealth tech startups in India as affluent class grows

The high-net-worth and ultra-high-net-worth segments are booming in India, prompting some wealth management firms to aggressively expand their relationship manager networks to capture this market.

Investors chase wealth tech startups in India as affluent class grows

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Amazon buys Indian video streaming service MX Player

Amazon has agreed to acquire key assets of Indian video streaming service MX Player from the local media powerhouse Times Internet, the latest step by the e-commerce giant to make its services and brand popular in smaller cities and towns in the key overseas market.  The two firms reached a…

Amazon buys Indian video streaming service MX Player

India’s Adani Group is in discussions to venture into digital payments and e-commerce, according to a report.

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

Mukesh Ambani’s Reliance is buying Paramount Global’s 13% stake in Viacom18 for $517 million as Asia’s richest man broadens his entertainment business just weeks after striking a multibillion dollars deal…

Reliance buys Paramount’s stake in Indian media Viacom18 for $517 million

Reliance, its portfolio Viacom18 and Disney are merging their media businesses in India, creating the largest media entity in the world’s most populous nation. Reliance, which will control the joint…

Ambani’s Reliance and Disney merge India media assets to form $8.5B joint venture

Reliance Industries spinoff Jio Financial Services said Monday evening that it is not negotiating with Paytm to acquire its wallet business, quashing “speculative” media reports as the Noida-headquartered firm scrambles…

Jio Financial says not in talks to acquire Paytm’s wallet business

Sony called off the merger between its India unit and Zee Entertainment on Monday, ending a two-year acquisition deliberation that would have created a $10 billion media powerhouse in the…

‘Sign from the Lord’: Sony tells Zee it’s terminating the $10B India merger

Bank of America has pinned a $107 billion valuation tag on Mukesh Ambani’s Jio Platforms, valuing the Indian telecoms and digital conglomerate 64.6% higher than the $65 billion at which…

BofA gives Ambani’s Jio Platforms a $100B-plus valuation

India’s fast-growing co-branded credit card market may soon see a new entrant: the country’s most valuable firm. Reliance is working with the state-backed lender SBI to launch two co-branded credit…

India’s Reliance readies credit card debut

Jio Financial Services, the Indian conglomerate Reliance Industries-backed financial services firm, has started its lending and insurance businesses and plans to rapidly broaden its offerings as billionaire Mukesh Ambani expands…

Ambani’s Jio Financial launches lending and insurance businesses

Abu Dhabi Investment Authority is investing $597 million in Reliance Retail, valuing the largest Indian retail chain at a whopping $100 billion. The investment follows KKR and Qatar Investment Authority…

Abu Dhabi sovereign-wealth fund invests nearly $600M in Reliance Retail at $100B valuation

Jio Financial Services, the financial services unit of Mukesh Ambani-run Indian conglomerate Reliance Industries, plans to expand to merchant lending and insurance, Ambani said at Reliance’s annual general meeting in…

Reliance’s financial services unit to offer insurance, merchant lending

Mukesh Ambani will lead Reliance Industries for five more years and groom and mentor his children to take the $200 billion Indian oil-to-telecom giant to greater heights of growth and…

Reliance appoints Ambani’s children to board in succession plan

India’s Paytm introduced the innovative sound box, a pocket-sized speaker designed to instantly validate and announce successful payments to merchants. It has deployed millions of these devices to the market,…

Reliance tests sound box payment system amid financial services push

Qatar’s sovereign wealth fund is investing $1 billion in Reliance Retail as India’s largest retail chain looks to expand its operations and enter new categories. The Qatar Investment Authority’s check…

Qatar fund invests $1B in Ambani’s Reliance Retail at $100B valuation

For years, the Indian market has been anticipating a public debut of Reliance Retail and Jio Platforms. But in a surprise move late last year, Mukesh Ambani, Asia’s richest man…

Reliance spin-off Jio Financial Services slides on market debut

The Indian conglomerate Reliance is poised to outpace Amazon and Walmart-backed Flipkart in the race for the country’s $150 billion e-commerce market, analysts at Bernstein projected in a scathing report to…

Bernstein pegs Reliance as India’s eventual e-commerce kingpin

Jio Platforms said on Wednesday it has rolled out 5G to 101 cities in just as many days as the Indian telecom giant looks to court customers aggressively with faster…

India’s Jio says it has rolled out 5G to over 100 cities in 100 days

An Indian court on Wednesday ordered the initiation of insolvency process against Amazon’s estranged partner Future Retail in yet another setback for the American e-commerce group in the key overseas…

Indian court agrees to send Future Retail into bankruptcy in another setback for Amazon

The Indian conglomerate Reliance and Viacom18 have inked a strategic partnership with Bodhi Tree, an “investment platform” run by James Murdoch’s Lupa Systems and former Disney executive Uday Shankar, in…

James Murdoch’s Bodhi Tree invests $1.78 billion in Ambani-backed Viacom18

Reliance Industries “cannot implement” its $3.4 billion deal to acquire core parts of retail chain Future Group after the latter’s secured creditors rejected the offer earlier this week, India’s most…

Reliance calls off $3.4 billion deal with Future Group

Amazon’s two-year effort to halt a $3.4 billion deal between its estranged partner Future Group and Reliance Retail took a new turn on Tuesday as tens of millions of Indians…

Amazon accuses estranged Indian partner Future and Reliance of fraud in newspaper ads

Reliance Industries plans to invest up to $221 million in U.S. electronics firm Sanmina to set up a joint venture as the Indian giant looks to expand its electronics manufacturing.…

Reliance to invest $221 million for electronics manufacturing with Sanmina in India

Future Retail, India’s second largest retail chain, is scaling down its operations to reduce losses, it said, the latest casualty in its years-long battle with estranged partner Amazon. The firm,…

Future Retail, Amazon’s estranged partner in India, scales down operations

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There’s nothing easy about learning a language, and so it’s also maybe no surprise that there are plenty of startups that want to make life easier for students. But while…

MagniLearn uses AI to help students learn new languages, raises $2.8M

Reliance Retail said on Friday it has acquired a controlling stake in 25-year-old Indian search and discovery firm Just Dial for $469 million. The Indian retail giant, which leads the…

Reliance Retail acquires controlling stake in Just Dial for $469 million

Jio Platforms, run by India’s richest man (Mukesh Ambani), and Google on Thursday unveiled the JioPhone Next, an affordable Android smartphone, as the top Indian telecom operator and the American…

Google and India’s Jio Platforms announce budget Android smartphone JioPhone Next