Singapore/Bangalore: Go-Jek, the Indonesian ride-hailing service backed by Sequoia Capital, KKR & Co., and Warburg Pincus, has acquired Bangalore-based health-care marketplace Pianta, its third acquisition in India...
GfK majority owner denies considering stake sale
The majority owner of German market research firm GfK (GFKG.DE) said on Friday it was not considering a sale of shares, rejecting a magazine report that had said it was eyeing a merger or sale of the group. “The...
Lyft is said to seek a buyer, with no success
New York: It is not an easy thing to be an independent ride-hailing company these days. For one, it takes billions of dollars and hundreds of employees to spread to new cities, to market the service and to recruit...
Tech’s M&A Rainmaker Couldn’t Care Less That Rivals Badmouth Him
George Boutros has heard the stories — the one’s rivals tell about how he’s cajoled, bullied and dissembled his way to the top of the cut-throat business of technology mergers and acquisitions. So here’s a...
China’s merger watchdog gets tough on clearance dodgers
A week after China’s two largest taxi-hailing firms announced plans for a $35 billion merger, lawyers say China’s merger control watchdog is cracking down on companies that don’t seek approval for...
Start-ups take the merger route in quest for profitability
For start-ups getting into partnerships in their quest to find success and profitability has become the new big thing. For start-ups getting into partnerships in their quest to find success and profitability has become...
Flipkart ties up with Ola to promote Lenovo smartphones to its customers
The campaign which is being launched in Mumbai, Delhi, Chennai, Bangalore and Pune starting August 1 will be available to users of Ola’s premium Prime service. Flipkart has partnered with ride-hailing app Ola to...
What’s behind the acquisition of Lookup by NowFloats
Lookup founder Deepak Ravindran says that the market is tough, reports Tech in Asia. Hyderabad-based NowFloats, founded in 2012, is one of India’s hot software product start-ups. It provides a platform to help local...
5 Ways Knowledge Management Can Impact a Merger or Acquisition
I must admit that I’m jumping on the bandwagon of people reacting to and commenting on the merger of Microsoft and LinkedIn. I immediately thought about some work that APQC and one of our past Knowledge Management (KM)...
Marc Andreessen Predicts Future Wave of Big Exits for Tech Startups
Marc Andreessen, co-founder of venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz, is bullish on the 2017 IPO market, and sees more mergers and acquisitions of private companies happening over the next few years. “We...
Merger Lies and Ferragamo Bribes
By Matt Levine M&A etiquette. Guy Hands’s lawsuit against Citigroup continued in London yesterdaywith my favorite sort of cross-examination, the kind where Citi’s lawyers asked Hands if he was lying, and...
Flipkart to sell stake to Bennett, Coleman & Co
Bengaluru-based e-commerce player Flipkart is in talks to sell an undisclosed percentage of stake to Bennett, Coleman and Co Ltd (BCCL), which owns a number of media outlets including The Times of India and The Economic...