OPay, the SoftBank-backed African eCommerce and payments company, has suspended its Nigerian operation, citing the coronavirus pandemic and also a government ban, Bloomberg reports. The...
Careem, the Dubai-based ride hailing company, has entered into a partnership with Visa to expand digital payments. The agreement is expected to accelerate cashless payments...
Uber Technologies may have lost out on a bid to buy Grubhub this month, but that hasn’t stopped the global ride-hailing company from setting its...
Amazon will pay more than $1.2 billion to acquire Zoox, the Foster City, Calif., self-driving technology company, the Financial Times (FT) reported. While the purchase could...
The Estonia-based rideshare unicorn Bolt — Uber’s main competitor in Europe — said it isn’t laying off any workers despite a 75 percent drop in...
To get a sense of how the pandemic can affect companies differently – even competitors in the same vertical, jockeying for position, for mindshare, for...
As if you needed more evidence that the stay at home, all digital world was shattering the “old” economy, or that online platforms have provided...
India’s Ministry of Home Affairs has given the green light to Amazon, Flipkart, Ola, Uber and others to resume their services in some parts of...
On-demand ride-hailing startup Gojek – Indonesia’s most successful unicorn – has purchased the point-of-sale (POS) and payments aggregator Moka for about $130 million. The acquisition...