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Offline stores are trending as new set of D2C firms emerge
Investors and startup founders are noticing a trend: D2C businesses across various sectors, like fashion, electronics, and food and beverage, are opening physical stores (going offline) even after their initial funding round.
PhonePe’s Rs 800 crore in-house bets; layoffs at Allen
Fintech giant PhonePe has put big money into its subsidiaries to grow businesses such as insurance broking, wealth management and hyperlocal ecommerce. This and more in today’s ETtech Morning Dispatch.
Regulatory actions prompt rethink among fintechs; and other top startup stories this week
Fintech industry faces regulatory challenges, affecting players like Paytm Payments Bank. Market dynamics shift with increasing regulatory scrutiny. Fintech startups adapt to changing landscape and consumer-focused regulations, emphasizing compliance and strategic recalibration.
Hunger games: Investors at the table with appetite for food startups
Pizza Wings, Boba Bhai in funding talks as HNIs, angels and other backers show interest
Investors bet on new-age food startups; ride-hailing apps up driver incentives
New-age food startups seem to have become appetising enough for investors to pump in money. This and more in today’s ETtech Morning Dispatch.
Travel planning 101: 52 places you must visit in 2024
Planning your next holiday? Consider adding these destinations to your itinerary for the perfect vacation.
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Google Doodle Today: Google celebrates Bubble Tea with unique, interactive doodle
Today, Google is celebrating the popular Asian drink, Bubble tea, with an interactive doodle. The doodle allows users to create their own "digital bubble tea" by choosing from different flavours, toppings, and sizes. The doodle also features fun facts and information about the history of bubble tea. Whether you're a bubble tea enthusiast or just curious about the drink, head over to Google's homepage to make your own digital bubble tea and learn more about this tasty treat.
Concerts, fireworks & raffles: Enjoy outstanding events at the Dubai Shopping Festival
The fest began on December 17 at Burj Park, Downtown Dubai.
A millennial crypto victory bigger than the price of Bitcoin
Sathvik Vishwanath and Harish BV, cofounders of a then five-year-old startup, were arrested in late 2018. No, they hadn’t pulled off a shady initial coin offering. Their “crime” was that they put up a kiosk in a mall in Bangalore where customers could swap Bitcoin, Ether or Ripple for cash or vice versa. That was the whole point of Unocoin, their crypto token exchange. But the police were suspicious of the new-fangled “ATM.”
Once-in-a-century Covid crisis is unleashing a new wave of mergers and acquisitions
While deals are fewer at an aggregate level since the beginning of the pandemic, deal activity is in sharp contrast with the contraction in economic activity and sentiment in the Main Street. But a flux like this also unlocks opportunities, value corrections and fire sales.
Consumer brand startups are challenging valuation status quo
Valuations are overheating for India’s challenger consumer brand startups as investors make a beeline for them. Supraja Srinivasan finds out how the opportunities stack up against the potential pitfalls
Bitcoin's 'Death Cross' looms as strategist eyes $2,800
Tech indicators suggest that the world’s largest digital currency may have further to fall.
How did Narendra Modi fare this year? Here is a cue
It’s been a ‘big bang’ year – probably the closest to the sky high expectations of economic volte-face that came with Modi’s ascension to power.
Will Narendra Modi let his personal inclinations get the better of him?
In a parliamentary system that puts party before personality, Modi has become the first candidate whose personal brand trumped party affiliation at a national level.
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