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Times Internet merges GoCricket with Cricbuzz

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In front of the World Cup 2015, Times Internet* appears to have merged its cricket site Gocricket with the as of late purchased Cricbuzz. Gocricket's website is right now diverting to Cricbuzz at the time of composing this article. The organization had likewise merged the mobile applications of Gocricket & Cricbuzz not long ago and had begun cautioning Gocricket's Twitter followers to take after Cricbuzz rather last week. This was truly a normal move, following Times Internet had said that it will be uniting Cricbuzz with its eight-month old cricket site Gocricket, in the wake of getting a lion's share stake in Cricbuzz in November last year. At the time, Times Internet had likewise said that it will be utilizing Cricbuzz's expertise as a part of the cricket segment along with its article content crosswise over content, photographs, and features to construct an "extraordinary client encounter around cricket". Other than publication, its significant tha

Reliance Capital to Sell 16 Percent Stake in Yatra.com

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Reliance Capital is situated to sell its 16 per cent stake in online travel portal, Yatra for an expected amount of INR 500 crore in order to encash its minority investment. The organization had procured this stake for INR 40 crore in 2006. As per an ET report, the arrangement is relied upon to be shut in 4-6 weeks and puts the aggregate valuation of the Yatra.com at around INR 3,000 crore. Different investors in travel portal incorporate Norwest Venture Partners (30 per cent), TV-18 gathering (10 per cent), Intel Cap (7 per cent), Valliant Capital (10 per cent) and 6 percent owned by its management group. Yatra.com is specifically contending with Makemytrip which is having a business estimation of USD 1.2 billion with an operating pay of USD 116 million for the year. While, Yatra.com remained at USD 50 million operating pay every year. A month ago, SAIF Partners had sold off its 2.41 percent stake in Mumbai-based nearby search provider, Justdial for an aggregate sum of INR 254 crore

Big bucket deals expected: Amazon-Jabong & Alibaba-Snapdeal

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Indian ecommerce industry is all situated to witness some major firecrackers as industry biggies: Amazon and Alibaba are in a major acquisition mode. According to reports rolling in from different sources, Amazon is crawling towards procuring Jabong and Alibaba is viewing Snapdeal nearly, and an arrangement might leap forward whenever now. Amazon-Jabong On the off chance that this Amazon chooses to acquire Jabong (and appears chances are high), Indian Ecommerce will witness its greatest acquisition till date. Sources are letting us know that the first level of talks in the middle of Amazon and Jabong is presently over, and management groups from both the portals are encircling out the details. According to insiders, this first level of talk had happened short of what a week prior. In spite of the fact that Indian FDI laws doesn't allow investments in Jabong, henceforth its an inventory based ecommerce model, though Amazon India is fundamentally a marketplace. Fashion i