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Ride-hailing encompasses a range of companies and services, including traditional taxis and car services. 

Ride-hailing

Transport or transportation is the movement of humans, animals, and goods from one location to another. 

Transportation

Loca claims users can book a cab and hail it within 2.5 minutes of reservation using its in-house algorithm.

Fosun RZ Capital and Stellaris lead seed round in India's last-mile startup Loca | KrASIA

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Google LLC is an American multinational technology company that specializes in Internet-related services and products, which include online advertising technologies, search engine, cloud computing, software, and hardware. It is considered one of the Big Four technology companies, alongside Amazon, Apple and Facebook. 

Google

Indian tax officials are concerned about revenue outflow outside the country.

Google India revenue drops by more than half owing to change in accounting method | KrASIA

Google India revenue drops by more than half owing to change in accounting method

Ola Cabs, is an Indian origin online transportation network company developed by ANI Technologies Pvt. Ltd. As of December 2018, Ola was valued at about $5.7 billion. A variety of venture capitalists including Softbank have large stakes in the company.

Delhi is the first city in Asia to have this feature that will help users locate public transport.

Uber launches its global 'public transport' feature in India | KrASIA

Uber launches its global &#8216;public transport&#8217; feature in India

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. 

Amazon

BigBasket

SoftBank Group Corp. is a holding company that engages in the management of its group companies which provides information technology and telecommunication services. It operates through the following segments: Mobile Communications, Sprint, Fixed-line Telecommunications, Internet, and Others. 

Softbank

Swiggy

Grocery Delivery

Over 35% of the e-grocer’s total sales are from early-stage consumer brands.

Indian online grocer BigBasket to pick up equity in young consumer brands | KrASIA

Indian online grocer BigBasket to pick up equity in young consumer brands

Music

With the spread of Internet global accessing (fastest Internet broadband connection TCP with accumulator cables and semi-fast connection), Short Video services have become very popular online. 

Short Video

Viewership of regional language content grew at 100% year-on-year.

YouTube India claims 60% of its users come from smaller towns | KrASIA

YouTube India claims 60% of its users come from smaller towns

ByteDance or Beijing ByteDance Technology Co Ltd. is a Chinese Internet technology company operating several machine learning-enabled content platforms, headquartered in Beijing. It was founded by Zhang Yiming in 2012. ByteDance's core product, Toutiao, is a popular content platform in China.

Bytedance

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

E-Commerce

Entertainment is a form of activity that holds the attention and interest of an audience or gives pleasure and delight. 

Entertainment

A few months ago, TikTok rolled out in-app shopping advertisements in the US.

TikTok might be harboring e-commerce dream in India | KrASIA

TikTok might be harboring e-commerce dream in India

The automotive aftermarket is the secondary market of the automotive industry, concerned with the manufacturing, remanufacturing, distribution, retailing, and installation of all vehicle parts, chemicals, equipment, and accessories, after the sale of the automobile by the original equipment manufacturer (OEM) to the consumer. 

Automotive Aftermarket

Apart from expansion, funding to be used to provide vehicle loans to customers

Indian used car platform Cars24 raises USD 100 million in expansion move | KrASIA

Indian used car platform Cars24 raises USD 100 million in expansion move

Flipkart

India's FDI policy bars online marketplaces from offering deep discounts and forging exclusive deals with brands.

India to look closer at discounts offered by Amazon and Flipkart during festive season | KrASIA

India to look closer at discounts offered by Amazon and Flipkart during festive season

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

India’s Startup Investment Climate blows hot and cold due to complex factors.