Lightspeed Venture Partners to increase its focus on growth deals

Lightspeed’s other investments in India include Darwinbox, Yellow Messenger, OK Credit, Apna, Dukaan, and Teachmint.

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Startups come up with innovative talent attraction, retention strategies amid high candidate drop-offs

Headout, for instance, has introduced unlimited leaves including gender neutral parental leaves, period leaves and mental health breaks.

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Fresh orders to ban 54 Chinese apps; recurring payments still a mess

The Indian government, which banned 224 Chinese apps in three rounds in 2020, has now issued fresh orders to ban around 54 Chinese apps, many of which belong to large companies such as Alibaba and Tencent and have resurfaced in new avatars.

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Govt issues order to ban 54 Chinese apps

Since June 2020, the government has banned a total of around 224 Chinese apps starting with about 59 apps in the first round, including popular applications like TikTok, Shareit, WeChat, Helo, Likee, UC News, Bigo Live, UC Browser, ES File Explorer, and Mi Community.

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Drivers face the brunt as Uber, Ola licence expires in Karnataka

Karnataka was among the first states in India to regulate firms such as Uber and Ola, introducing formal regulations in the form of the Karnataka On demand Transportation Technology Aggregator Rules, 2016.

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Crypto players seek re-look of proposed TDS provision

These issues figured when representatives of leading domestic crypto exchanges met with finance ministry officials on Friday to discuss budget proposals, people familiar with the deliberations told ET.

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Swiggy’s Instamart, Zepto want to tap private labels to improve margin, lower cash burn

Private label products are goods sold by retailers under their own brand names. Many brick-and-mortar retailers and ecommerce companies have private labels, which offer a fatter margin than selling third-party brands. Amazon, for instance, sells many products under the Amazon Basics brand.

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