Airtel continues to consolidate and strengthen it’s financial position. Company is holding board meeting on January 28, 2022 to consider a preferential issue of the equity shares. Currently, Airtel’s shareholders include – Mittal family 24.13%, SingTel 31.72% and balance by public. Rumours are that a strategic global investor would be investing into the Company. Last … Read more
Food delivery platform Swiggy on Monday announced that it raised $700 million in a new funding round led by Invesco. The funding round saw participation from new investors such as Baron Capital Group, Kotak, among others. Swiggy said existing investors like Alpha Wave Global, Qatar Investment Authority, Ark Impact, Prosus also participated in the round. Economic … Read more
Ola Electric on Monday said it has raised over USD 200 million (about Rs 1,490.5 crore) from Tekne Private Ventures, Alpine Opportunity Fund, Edelweiss and others, valuing the electric vehicle maker at USD 5 billion. In September last year, Ola Electric had announced raising a similar amount in funding from Falcon Edge, Softbank and others … Read more
“Holistic approach will be required to ensure availability of digital infrastructure in building complexes” Telecom regulator TRAI will soon come up with recommendations that will facilitate in improving telecom connectivity, especially 5G when it is rolled out, a top official has said. Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) chairman P.D. Vaghela during a virtual event … Read more
India’s smartphone market registered its highest-ever shipments at 169 million units in 2021, according to a report by Counterpoint Research. Preliminary data from Counterpoint Research’s Market Monitor service said India’s smartphone shipments crossed 169 million units in 2021 to register 11 per cent year-on-year growth from about 152 million units in 2020. The market showed … Read more
7th note in the series. Performance has been exactly in line with the last update in July 2021. What next?
Hero Electric (HE) is different from Hero Motocorp that we all know. HE belongs to Vijay Munjal, the cousin brother of Pawan Munjal and is currently run by Vijay’s son Naveen Munjal. HE was amongst the 1st ones to have targeted EV space in India – working on it for last 15 years. Currently there … Read more
Serbian tennis star Novak Djokovic, recently deported from Australia due to his coronavirus vaccine status, is co-founder and majority shareholder of a biotech firm developing a Covid-19 treatment, the Danish company’s CEO said Wednesday. “He is one of the founders of my company we founded in June 2020,” the chief executive of QuantBioRes, Ivan Loncarevic, … Read more
All 3 independent directors of PTC Indian Financial Services (PFS) have resigned citing corporate governance concerns. I don’t remember something like this happening before. Key points to note – PFS is the NBFC subsidiary of PTC India (65% ownership) Independent directors have raised corporate governance concerns especially on the MD & CEO of PFS, Pawan … Read more