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From Flipkart's $1.4 bn funding to Uber scandal: Your weekly tech update

Also, Google launches a new food delivery and home services app in India, reports Tech in Asia

From Flipkart's $1.4 bn funding to Uber scandal: Your weekly tech update
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Annie Teh | Tech in Asia
Jack Ma’s VC firm invests in his own company and Flipkart’s latest round may change India’s ecommerce scene as we know it. When will the Uber scandals end?!

Here’s a snapshot of last weeks’ news in sentences:

Remember Uber’s “God View”? Well, they also had a secret software that tracked the location of Lyft’s drivers; codename “Hell”. (Amir Efrati / The Information [Paywall])(James Vincent / The Verge)

Riding off Uber’s bad press, Lyft raises $600M at $7.5B valuation. The Uber rival saw a 60 percent week-on-week increase in new user registration following the #DeleteUber campaign. (Darrell Etherington