'Some buyers get carried away by festival offers and purchase higher variants or larger vehicles than they truly need, which impacts running cost and long-term affordability.'
The Department for Promotion of Industry and Internal Trade (DPIIT), under the Ministry of Commerce and Industry, has entered into a partnership with the Startup Policy Forum (SPF), a premier industry organisation representing India's leading new-age companies.
CarDekho.com - the winner of best and most popular Indian automotive website of the year 2012 has announced the first edition of its awards.
The way video is being watched and monetised is changing. This is the first thing that stands out as the penetration of smart TVs continues to rise.
With $18.6 billion in investments, Bengaluru made it to the top-five leading VC funding hubs across the world in 2021 - following San Francisco Bay Area, New York, Greater Boston Region and London. However, it outstripped Beijing ($13.6 billion) and Shanghai ($13.4 billion). Global tech VC investment into start-ups hit a record level of $675 billion in 2021, doubling the previous all-time high of $340.6 billion in 2020, a report by London & Partners and dealroom.co.
The Jain brothers' $300 mn-worth Girnar Software has really humble roots.
US hedge fund Tiger Global and Japanese investment giant SoftBank have trimmed their investments in Indian start-ups by over a third - from $3.8 billion in the second half of 2021 to a mere $1.08 billion in H1 2022, according to data from Venture Intelligence. While SoftBank's investments in India dropped from $1.9 billion in H2 2021 by more than a fifth to only $0.33 billion in H1 2022, that of Tiger Global fell from $1.92 to $0.74 billion in the same period. Private equity (PE) fund trackers point out that this year most of the deals that Tiger Global has invested in are in the early stage (up to series D), and only a few are in the series E and above.
Backed by veteran industrialist Ratan Tata, auto portal CarDekho.com, has been revving up its operations in regions like South Asia.
Few car like BMW-M series and Audi RS7 were most popular in 2014.
Automotive portal CarDekho.com is in the fast lane and in top gear as it has reached the top spot by becoming India's number one auto portal, said a media statement from CarDekho.
A single application and a plethora of services for passenger cars - that is what myTVS, a brand that operates under Ki Mobility Solutions and is part of the TVS family, is set to bring to customers, in a bid to disrupt the concept of "super apps" in India. Starting July 15, myTVS will launch its connected car platform or super app called myTVS Life360 for aftermarket passenger cars. Through it, customers will be able to avail themselves of a range of services like maintenance, diagnostics, roadside assistance, accessories, payments, insurance, and so on.
Not just from the likes of Alibaba and Didi Chuxing, Indian startups saw a surge in Chinese funding from financial investors in 2019. This is a seven-fold jump from $459 million in 2016.
'IIM Ahmedabad has seen one of the best placement seasons ever and this change can be attributed to the markets opening up after the pandemic.'
The car was expected to have a price tag of Rs 10 lakh and launch was slated for this June.
Their startup investments number 13 so far, compared to 17 deals in 2020.
The company had launched a couple of vehicles earlier this year.
Talks of new car launches and model upgrades kept car lovers enthralled throughout 2010.
It is Tata's fourth such investment in an e-commerce co.
Maruti is not an online outlier, of course; other heavyweights have rolled out similar services. But as an analyst pointed out, Maruti's all-India roll-out has significant impact given that it accounts for over half of all cars sold, reports, reports Pavan Lall.
The affected vehicles were produced in Japan between 2004 and 2013.
Set up by three former NDTV executives, the company is targeting premium restaurants in Delhi-NCR
Smart positioning, continued communication and a global design language have played a big role, say experts
The Tata Sons' chairman emeritus has been aggressively investing in start-ups, ranging from e-commerce firms to cab aggregators
His presence matters more than the money he brings.
GM has invested $1 billion in the country since 1996.
Co-founders of India's latest unicorn expected Covid-19 to be a speed breaker; instead it accelerated sales. Cars24 now enjoys more than 90 per cent market share among all other similar online transaction platforms. Dhruv Munjal traces the birth of this used-cars platform.
Those that are developing quadricycles from scratch say it will take them at least two years to roll them out.
Sabse has several patents in the arena of call-control and switching of calls.
What work in Jaipur's favour are lower costs, a good talent pool, better quality of life, and proximity to the Delhi National Capital Region
During floods in Kolkata, the roads were strewn with stalled Santros, engines filled up with water.
The company, which is a leading player in the Indian wearables market, is backed by angel investors like Shriram Nene and his wife and Bollywood actress Madhuri Dixit Nene and WhatApp's Neeraj Arora
Insurance companies sell off inventory of flood-damaged vehicles to cut losses.
Vani Kola, Karthee Madasamy, T V Mohandas Pai also invest in the media startup
Entities like CarDekho, Cartrade and a host of other online players went live even as Carnation, former Maruti managing director Jagdish Khattar's first entrepreneurial venture, was searching for the right business model, says Ajay Modi.
Continuing his investment spree in India's hot start-ups, Ratan Tata on Friday invested in Kyazoonga.
Tata has emerged as a major venture capital investor since his retirement.
The recall is only for the diesel variants of the three models. Out of the total, 55,938 units are of old Dzire, 12,486 units of old Swift and 1,131 units of Ritz, which were manufactured between March 8, 2010 and August 11, 2013, the company said.
Online platforms can help buyers and sellers get a fair price and assurance on the car's health.
This is Tata's seventh investment this year.
FirstCry is omni-channel player with presence across desktop, mobile and offline routes offering baby and maternity products in India.
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