Indian e-commerce company Flipkart has joined forces with online car service Ola and online travel company Make My Trip to form a nationalist lobby group to combat global rivals such as Amazon and Uber in India.
According to reports in the Economic Times, Flipkart’s co-founder Sachin Bansal will serve as founding president for the lobby group, called Indiatech.org, which has been dubbed the “Nasscom for the startup space”.
The lobby will aim to represent the interest of the Indian startups and aggressively demand more favourable policies by the government. Other founding members from India’s messenger service, Hike and online Read full story ›
Source: The Drum