Unlike many peers in the VC space, LSE grad Juneja doesn't have an entrepreneurial background but is said to be strong in finance skills
Nikesh Arora is indeed paid a lot, networks hard, and has made some punchy bets.
Growing the number of electric vehicles on Ola's platform is part of the terms SoftBank has put forth for the funding
Electric mobility in India is touted to be the way to the future, but implementation of large-scale projects to bring infrastructure for charging is still lacking.
Experts believe more efforts would be needed in future funding rounds.
The move is a show of faith from three of the world's biggest technology companies in fast-growing Snapdeal
Nikesh Arora becoming successor of Masayoshi Son at Softbank yet again shows Indians are being preferred for global roles at multinational firms.
The new deal will value Flipkart at close to $19 billion on the secondary market, a huge jump from Walmart's initial offer to investors.
Around half the value of the mark-downs is due to the Japanese currency's appreciation against other currencies.
A group of investors of Japanese mobile giant SoftBank has sought probe and possible sacking of its India-born COO Nikesh Arora over potential conflicts of interest tied to his role as an adviser to a private equity firm.
Former England captain David Beckham was officially awarded a Major League Soccer (MLS) franchise in Miami on Monday with hopes that the team will begin playing in 2020.
Nikesh Arora is one of the highest-paid business leaders globally.
Taxing SoftBank, the largest shareholder in Flipkart with a little over 20 per cent stake, however, will be easier.
If Sachin Bansal sells his stake at a little over 5 per cent and steps down from Flipkart, as reports have suggested recently, either Binny Bansal or Kalyan Krishnamurthy, CEO of Flipkart, could be an option for the leadership position.
SoftBank's investments in the past two years include $627 million in online-retailing marketplace Snapdeal and leading a $210 million funding round in taxi-hailing app Ola Cabs.
Son's offer to supply free power after 25 years is based on the idea that the cost of running a solar plant would progressively decline while its efficiency would increase.
Arora was hired in July to run a newly created unit called SoftBank Internet and Media Inc.
Jaitley assured that both the banking system and the government will make the resources available to them.
Nikesh Arora has an engineering degree in electronics and worked for a brief period at Wipro, selling computers.
15 per cent of startups in Silicon Valley are founded by Indians.
Naveen Tewari loves cycling but over the past few years, he has been keeping his first love waiting.
There are about 600,000 taxis in India, generating combined annual revenue of about Rs 11,000 crore (Rs 110 billion).
OlaCabs' hyper-growth and an ambitious plan to expand to 100 cities by the end of 2015 are perhaps what attracted Japan's richest man, Masayoshi Son, chairman of telecom and media group SoftBank Corp, to announce an investment of $210 million (around Rs 1,260 crore) in the company.
The 24-hour delivery offer applies only to select postal codes and is not available across the country.
While a three-year tax holiday and relaxation of capital gains for funds have been received favourably, others argue that not enough has been announced.
With a new $100-billion technology fund, SoftBank is likely to go after market leaders.
If the government seriously keeps out of business, the business world will know about it at a lightning speed; there would be no need for rock show-like events.
'Shape up or ship out' message has been loud and clear across the new-age companies in the stressed market conditions
His challenge now may be coping with Alibaba's undoubted status as a whale in the world of e-commerce.
Nivedita Mookerji finds out how Paytm CEO Vijay Shekhar Sharma is handling his soaring popularity after the note ban as well as the criticism that comes as a package deal.
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Amitabh Kant tells Rahul Jacob how India could be made an easier place to do business in and why India's software smarts will give it an edge.
With Sundar Pichai becoming the CEO of Google, India has one more reason to cheer its prowess in the global IT sector.
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