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Topic: Jio

2020 has been a forgettable year for most, but not for Mukesh Ambani and Reliance Jio

Everyone’s buying into the Reliance Jio dream for now. Big investors such as Facebook and Google are writing a cheque to own a slice of it.

After luring Google & Facebook, Mukesh Ambani plans to build a global digital company

Mukesh Ambani unveiled a slew of services from Jio, including a 5G network as early as next year and a mega video-streaming platform.

Reliance Jio raises $4 billion from share sale to investors

Mukesh Ambani's Jio has now sold about 25% of its shares to buyers, including Facebook and US private equity firms KKR & Co., and Silver Lake.

Zoom has a new challenger – budding internet tycoon Mukesh Ambani

Ambani’s Reliance has launched JioMeet video conferencing app after beta testing. The app has already garnered more than 100,000 downloads.

Intel invests Rs 1,895 crore in Ambani’s Jio Platforms for 0.39% stake

Intel Corp. has agreed to pay approximately Rs. 1,895 crore ($253 million) for a stake in the telecom giant, joining other investors like Facebook Inc., KKR & Co. and Silver Lake Partners.

After luring $10 billion of investment, Mukesh Ambani plans foreign IPO for Jio Platforms

Reliance is preparing Jio Platforms for an IPO outside India and the offering could happen in the next 12 to 24 months.

Reliance starts testing JioMart, its online grocery shopping portal across India

JioMart is now delivering in more than 200 cities. Last month, it started a pilot project serving users in three neighbourhoods surrounding Mumbai.

Mukesh Ambani now courts Saudis and investors who backed Uber, Airbnb for Jio

Investors are betting on Jio’s access to India’s huge consumer market & its potential to shake up traditional industries with its technology.

Mukesh Ambani is a man on a mission and even a pandemic or lockdown can’t stop him

Mukesh Ambani has raised $8 billion with 3 deals in 3 weeks as he races to transform his oil-and-petrochemicals empire into a tech-driven, e-commerce force.

With Facebook’s Jio investment, the India story is back, despite pandemic

This new platform will not displace small and local businesses. Instead, it will collaborate with them and amplify their reach as well as their profitability.

On Camera

If fundamental right to property can be taken away, so can all the others: AG Mulgaokar

If this step even partially achieves its desired results, there will be so much dislocation in the country’s economic structure as to prove a national calamity, advocate AG Mulgaokar wrote in 1969.

Niti Aayog recommends fully decriminalising 12 offences under new I-T Act to ‘foster more trust’

Recommendations appear in Niti Aayog’s Tax Policy Working Paper Series–II. It says there is a need to shift away from fear-based enforcement to trust-based governance.

India, UK sign £350 mn deal for Martlet. What are these Lightweight Multirole Missiles

In service with the British military since 2019, it is also known as the Martlet missile. Ukrainians have also deployed these missiles against Russian troops.

CJI, IPS, IAS & Homebound: A wake-up call 75 years in the making

Education, reservations, govt jobs are meant to bring equality and dignity. That we are a long way from that is evident in the shoe thrown at the CJI and the suicide of Haryana IPS officer. The film Homebound has a lesson too.