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The deck has been cleared, and the final move has been made. Flipkart’s offer of $1 billion to acquire and merge Snapdeal has been ‘almost’ accepted by the investors and founders of Snapdeal, and the official merger would be…

Japanese business conglomerate & investor Softbank is planning a couple of big moves in India. As e-commerce portals are gasping for investments and grocery apps are struggling to survive, Softbank is making some concrete moves to…

Snapdeal, which is right now going through a rough patch, has now more reasons to worry. A possible infusion of $100-150 million by Softbank has been cancelled, thereby making the fate of Snapdeal even more doubtful. And an intense…

Nikesh Arora, who has been frequently in the news since he joined Softbank in 2014 has resigned from Japan’s third-largest telecom service provider and one of the marquee investors in companies around the globe. The move comes as a…

The rumours that have been around for past few weeks seem to be partially true – Now, according to Reuters report, Japanese Behemoth Softbank is currently in talks with India’s second largest Smartphone manufacturer Micromax to buy 20…

One of India's largest homegrown handset vendors, Micromax, is rumoured to be exploring various strategic options at present. The producer of budget smartphones and feature phones, who were earlier toying with the idea of an IPO, has…

Not that we have a dearth of success stories, but now and then there are some stories worth knowing. One such story is of Son. The renowned richest man in Japan, he is the founder of Softbank and an aggressive investor. Having funded…

2014 will surely go down in history as a marquee year for tech and online startups in India. No one could have predicted at the start of the year that Indian online companies will see such huge infusion of funds from Venture Capitalists,…

The news of Snapdeal raising funding from Softbank has been confirmed. According to a Techcrunch report, Snapdeal's CEO Kunal Bahl has confirmed that it has raised $627M funding from Softbank. This round of funding also has other…