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Detailed stories on technology startups, business and economic current affairs.
Detailed stories on technology startups, business and economic current affairs.
Zomato, GreyOrange, OYO—increasingly, Indian startups are looking at Europe as a market to expand. How do you decide if that market is for you?
The story of Zomato’s tryst in Europe isn’t very well documented. Unlike the Zomato of today, which has hunkered down on India and shut out everything else, the Zomato of the early part of this decade had a sense of global ambition about it.
Sometime in 2011, Zomato decided that it is going to grow its business outside India. Not on a whim but the idea that its business can be easily replicated; smartphones and restaurants aren’t all that different across geographies. Starting in 2012, backed by investors like InfoEdge and Sequoia, the company was launching new countries at breakneck …
The contrasting approaches are driven by two very different strategies. One wants to capture more markets; the other is focused on discipline and profits.
The instant house help business has become the centre of focus and investment at the home services company. But another fight may be brewing in its core business.
India’s grocery and food delivery platforms are increasingly displaying misleading images of food using artificial intelligence, defeating the very purpose of buying online.
