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Amazon.com, Inc., is an American multinational technology company based in Seattle, Washington that focuses on e-commerce, cloud computing, and artificial intelligence. Amazon is the largest e-commerce marketplace and cloud computing platform in the world as measured by revenue and market capitalization. 

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Reliance

E-commerce is the activity of buying or selling of products on online services or over the Internet. 

E-Commerce

Grocery Delivery

The US-based online retailer, with its ecosystem play, is going after India's 130 million online shoppers.

Amazon plans to become much more than a super app in India | KrASIA

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Amazon plans to become much more than a super app in India

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I cover Indian tech, startup, venture capital ecosystems for KrASIA.

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Venture capital is a type of private equity, a form of financing that is provided by firms or funds to small, early-stage, emerging firms that are deemed to have high growth potential, or which have demonstrated high growth.

Venture Capital

Overall deal activity in India has been robust over the last two months with Indian startups raising USD 1.3 billion.

Despite Series B drain from China due to coronavirus hit, Indian investors remain optimistic | KrASIA

Despite Series B drain from China due to coronavirus hit, Indian investors remain optimistic

The total coronavirus cases have shot up to 29, spooking the masses in India.

Indian tech companies adopt measures to prevent coronavirus amidst mounting cases | KrASIA

Indian tech companies adopt measures to prevent coronavirus amidst mounting cases

OYO Rooms, commonly known as OYO, is India's largest hospitality company, consisting mainly of budget hotels. It was founded in 2013 by Ritesh Agarwal and has since grown to over 12,000 hotels in 337 cities in India, Malaysia, UAE, Nepal, China and Indonesia.

In China, which has been severely impacted by the coronavirus outbreak, Oyo plans to let go of 50% of its 6,000 direct full-time employees.

SoftBank-backed Oyo to let go over 5,000 employees globally | KrASIA

SoftBank-backed Oyo to let go over 5,000 employees globally

Fintech is the new applications, processes, products, or business models in the financial services industry, composed of one or more complementary financial services and provided as an end-to-end process via the internet.

Fintech

Almost 57% of the fintech funding went into payments companies that are eying to grab a larger chunk of India’s soon-to-be USD 1 trillion digital payments market.

Driven by payment services, Indian fintech investments double in 2019 | KrASIA

Driven by payment services, Indian fintech investments double in 2019

Oppo is a Chinese consumer electronics and mobile communications company headquartered in Dongguan, China, known for its smartphones, Blu-ray players and other electronic devices.

OPPO

Oppo Kash comes three months after Xiaomi and RealMe entered financial services space in India.

Chinese smartphone maker Oppo ventures into financial services in India | KrASIA

Chinese smartphone maker Oppo ventures into financial services in India

Lending

The startup aims to lend about USD 138.3 million (INR 1000 crores) by the end of the next financial year.

Indian lending startup SMEcorner raises USD 30 million | KrASIA

Indian lending startup SMEcorner raises USD 30 million

VCs start 2020 with an all-time high of USD 7 billion in hand for India investments.

Venture capitalists put in USD 10 billion in Indian startups in 2019 | KrASIA

Venture capitalists put in USD 10 billion in Indian startups in 2019

Last month, Oyo laid off around one-third of its staff or about 360 employees in the US.