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Krutrim takes on Google, unveils new pricing & future roadmap for Ola Maps

For larger volumes, despite recent price adjustments by Google, Krutrim said it is offering prices which are 50 per cent of Google Maps' reduced rates, ensuring value for the users

Ola, Uber among 21 cos registered under Delhi's vehicle aggregator scheme

Over one lakh vehicles of 21 different cab aggregators, delivery service providers and e-commerce companies are now onboard the Delhi government's 'Motor Vehicle Aggregator and Delivery Service Provider Scheme', the city's transport department said on Saturday. Under the scheme, cab aggregators, delivery service providers and e-commerce entities with more than 25 vehicles in their fleet have to register to obtain a licence and it also sets a timeline for the electrification of their fleets. The non-compliant cab aggregators will face action as per the provisions of the scheme, it said. The scheme stipulates penalties ranging from Rs 5,000 up to Rs 100,000 per instance. The onboarded entities include Smartshift Logistics, ANI Technologies, the parent company of Ola, Uber India, Zomato Ltd., Blink Commerce, Swigfy Ltd, MoEVing Urban Technologies., and Roppen Transportation Services among others, it said. The fleet of vehicles of these companies includes electric, petrol and CNG dri

Affordable models take Bajaj, TVS closer to Ola Electric in e2W market

In July, their combined share surges past Ola's

Ola CEO endorses 70-hour work week, top neurologist warns of severe illness

Working for 55 or more hours per week is associated with a 35% higher risk of a stroke, 17% higher risk of dying from ischemic heart disease

Mobility players drive 18% of total car sales in FY24, says Deloitte

Mobility sector's growth path set to accelerate to 25% by FY30: Deloitte

Ola's Bhavish Aggarwal urges developers to shift from Google Maps

Ola is offering developers a year of free access to Ola Maps on the company's Krutrim Cloud and over Rs 100 crore in free credits

Ola Electric planning to layoff 400-500 employees to streamline operations

Ola Electric's IPO application is currently under review by the Securities and Exchange Board of India (Sebi)

Ola moves tech workloads out of Microsoft's Azure, says Bhavish Aggarwal

Although Krutrim managed to get 2,500 developers, there was no clarity if any companies have joined the platform or have shown interest in joining the platform

Ola Cabs CFO Kartik Gupta quits seven months after taking charge

Before joining Ola, Gupta worked as the Vice President and Regional CFO of Asia Pacific, Middle East and Africa at Procter and Gamble for over 17 years

Ola founder's latest bet on 'cloud' and free offer shakes tech industry

The cloud service is available to developers who are presently using Microsoft's Azure, with the condition that they won't return to Azure again

Ola CEO Aggarwal shuns Microsoft, says India needs its own tech platforms

Rebuking Microsoft and its subsidiary LinkedIn, Ola CEO Bhavish Aggarwal in a post said India needs to establish its own tech platforms to shun the chances of being "culturally subsumed" and "governed" by western big tech monopolies. Boycotting Microsoft, Aggarwal said Ola -- an existing customer of Microsoft Azure -- will no longer avail of its services, and will shift its entire workload to its homegrown Krutrim cloud in a week. The backlash comes after LinkedIn removed the CEO's post that called out LinkedIn's AI for "imposing a political ideology on Indian users". He had shared a screenshot from a generative AI response that used "they/their" pronouns to describe Aggarwal. Berating the "pronoun illness", he had said he hopes the practise doesn't reach India. "...the pronouns issue I wrote about is a woke political ideology of entitlement which doesn't belong in India. I wouldn't have waded into this debate but clearly LinkedIn has presumed Indians need to have pronouns in our

Ola Cabs CEO Hemant Bakshi quits; company to lay off 10% employees

Ola Cabs is reportedly planning an initial public offering (IPO) to raise $500 million at a company valuation of about $5 billion

Telangana cab union announces 'No AC campaign' amid soaring temperatures

Union says working with Uber, Ola, Rapido are getting diminishing returns for each trip they make

Layoffs by Indian tech startups dip 60% in Jan-March this year, says report

Tech startups let go of more than 2,000 workers in the first quarter as funding capital reduced

Setting the pace: Ola Electric sees momentum continuing after record March

Ola's CMO, Anshul Khandelwal, also pointed out that there have been fundamental changes in the buying patterns of customers - for instance, more women are now buying electric vehicles than earlier

Large representation of Indian data differentiates us: Krutrim's Ravi Jain

Krutrim's head of strategy Ravi Jain said what differentiates the AI platform from others is that it uses Indian data including different languages to train its models

Uber way behind Ola in India: Bhavish Aggarwal responds to Khosrowshahi

Uber chief had said Ola was foraying into other areas but Uber was focused on ride-sharing business

Bhavish Aggarwal's Krutrim rolls out OpenAI's ChatGPT rival in beta mode

During the announcement of the fundraise, Aggarwal had said, "India has to build its own AI, and at Krutrim we are fully committed to building the country's first complete AI computing stack"

Ola Electric cuts its scooter prices by up to Rs 25,000. Details here

Ola Electric's chairman and managing director Bhavish Aggarwal, in a recent tweet, announced a significant price reduction on their range of e-scooters

Ola sets up cab zone at Chennai int'l airport for airline passengers

Ride-hailing platform Ola Mobility has set up Ola Zone at the Chennai International Airport here, aimed at serving the passengers who need a ride for their local journeys, the company said on Wednesday. The launch of service at the airport comes in the backdrop of the memorandum of understanding signed between the Airports Authority of India and OLA Cabs with an intent to provide and ensure the presence of multiple facilities of ground transportation for the convenience of passengers traveling through the airports. The Ola Zone, similar to the cab services currently available at the airport, allows customers to book a ride at the Ola Zone to take up their local journey, instead of availing the services through the Ola mobile application. Booking assistance would be provided at the dedicated kiosks for the travelers who would receive all charges in a single bill, while the drivers would be able to benefit from a cashless checkout system, eliminating payments at entry and exits of the