A US$20bil (RM84.79bil) fundraising spree from marquee investors and tech giants, including Facebook Inc and Alphabet Inc, has established Ambani’s Jio Platforms Ltd as the most ambitious digital services play to emerge from India. — Reuters
Things nobody should lose in a taxi – their phone and wallet – are what India’s richest man wants to control. And Mukesh Ambani intends to do it in a market of a billion-plus consumers.
The oil-and-petrochemicals tycoon’s digital services startup requires him to dominate the use of mobile devices, while his retail chain, India’s largest, needs maximum grip on customers’ moneybags. Through the fog of the pandemic, the billionaire’s flagship Reliance Industries Ltd is showing glimpses of this twin-track strategy.
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