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Sunday, November 3, 2024
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Topic: Swiggy

Online delivery of Masala Dosas is a food ‘hate-crime’. North India must apologise

Swiggy ‘StatEATistics’ 2021 confirms Masala Dosa's popularity, especially in North India.

Food delivery, hairdresser, taxi, bank, car service — why all want feedback, all the time

The feedback forms you fill, and star ratings you are pestered for by drivers, delivery personnel and sales staff, have a purpose. They can help you, the personnel and businesses.

Swiggy nears $700 mn fundraise in Invesco-led round as it hopes for IPO in a year’s time

Invesco will pour in $200 million, with other existing investors such as Softbank participating. Swiggy is expected to follow Zomato with an IPO about a year or so later.

Swiggy catches up with Zomato, gets $1.25 billion funding to expand convenience businesses

Swiggy said it will use the funds to accelerate growth in food delivery and invest in its instant grocery delivery service Instamart, pick-up-and-drop service Genie and Supr Daily.

Zomato braces for 50k crore IPO, but only 7% Hindi heartland users order through it weekly

Zomato and Swiggy may seem like ubiquitous brands, but how many people in India’s largest Hindi-speaking states actually know about and use the apps?

Week after closing $800 mn funding, Swiggy set to raise $450 mn more, this time from SoftBank

SoftBank Group is likely to invest in Swiggy at $5.5 billion valuation. The financing is said to be awaiting approval from regulators.

Swiggy gets $800 million to fund growth and help seed new businesses

Swiggy CEO says the new capital will speed up growth in its existing businesses and help seed new ones. The funding will raise the food delivery app's valuation to nearly $5 billion.

Urban Company most ‘fair’, Swiggy, Zomato and Uber least — report on working conditions

A report by FairWork India, released Wednesday, looked at working conditions across 11 platforms and rated them based on parameters such as fair pay and fair representation.

Why the visually challenged are signing petitions addressed to apps such as Zomato, Swiggy

Recent Change.org petitions have drawn attention to the problems visually challenged users face while using popular delivery apps such as Dunzo, JioMart, Grofers and others.

34% Indians open to eating restaurant food but most prefer home delivery, survey finds

According to a LocalCircles Survey, 28% Indians have consumed restaurant food in the last 2 months but 21% of these got the food home delivered by Swiggy or Zomato.

On Camera

Neither retaliation nor revenge—Sardar Patel’s appeal for peace after Partition violence

On 12 September 1947, deputy PM Vallabhbhai Patel addressed the nation 'with a heavy heart and in obedience to the call of duty' to call for an end to the communal violence and unspeakable brutalities.

Watch CutTheClutter: Flattening INR-USD rate, and debate on pros and cons of a ‘strong’ rupee

In Episode 1544 of CutTheClutter, Editor-in-Chief Shekhar Gupta looks at some top economists pointing to the pitfalls of ‘currency nationalism’ with data from 1991 to 2004.

Indian firms sanctioned by US didn’t violate laws, says MEA. Hyderabad firm that supplied to Army on list

Among 19 Indian firms sanctioned by US Treasury Dept was Lokesh Machines Ltd accused of coordinating with 'Russian defence procurement agent to import Italy-origin CNC machines'.

Xi wanted to teach India about imbalance of power. We should take a budgetary lesson from it

While we talk much about our military, we don’t put our national wallet where our mouth is. Nobody is saying we should double our defence spending, but current declining trend must be reversed.