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eKart exec Harish Abhichandani replaces Rajiv Bansal as Ola CFO

Abhichandani had served a year and a half stint as the CFO of Flipkart's logistics unit eKart

Ola raises Rs 231 crore from Tekne Private Ventures

The deal involves allotment of 171,173 fully and compulsorily convertible preference shares

Ola Cabs hits legal hurdle for playing 'pirated' music

> The Bengaluru Police has registered a complaint of copyright infringement against ride hailing service Ola and its founders Bhavish Aggarwal and Ankit Bhati for streaming pirated film music through its Ola Play platform. The complaint which was filed by Bengaluru-based Lahari Recording Company on May 20 accuses ANI Technologies Pvt. Ltd., the parent company of ride hailing service, of downloading and streaming songs from popular Telugu and Kannada movies for which it owns the rights. Police raided the Ola office, seized equipment that downloaded and stored songs locally and streamed it on its Ola play platform, it said in a statement on Friday. Tulasiram Naidu, director at Lahari Recording Co, discovered last month that Ola was playing audio music of popular Telugu movies such as Bahubali, Chiranjeevi's Khaidi 150 and Kannada movie Sundaranga Jana, when he took Ola Prime from airport to his home in Bengaluru. Naidu, who is known as Lahari Velu in film circles, checked with ..

Ola raises Rs 670 cr from Ratan Tata-backed fund, other investors

Bengaluru-based firm ahd earlier raised about $250 million from SoftBank in Nov last year

Ola lost Rs 6 crore a day during 2015-16. Here's why

Ola posted a consolidated loss of over Rs 2,311 crore in 2015-16

Ola eyes $100 mn in fresh funding to fuel expansion as battle with Uber on

Ola recently raised funds to the tune of Rs 1,675 crore from its Japanese investor, SoftBank

Ola raises Rs 1,675 crore from SoftBank in fresh funding

Last year was tough with SoftBank writing down its investment in Ola, reports Tech in Asia

Softbank-backed Ola ramps up electric vehicles push in India

Company will also invest in setting up charging stations in the pilot cities

Ola, Uber drivers now knock TN govt's door for tariff hike

Both Ola and Uber didn't respond on queries related to ongoing protest

Ola signs MoU with Madhya Pradesh govt to create 25,000 entrepreneurs

Cab aggregator Ola today said it has signed MoU with Government of Madhya Pradesh to create 25,000 entrepreneurs in the state. The MOU is focused towards training, skill development and empowerment of 25,000 driver partners in the next two years, Ola said in a releae. It said the MoU has been signed with Madhya Pradesh State Skill Development Mission (MPSSDM) and Directorate of Skill Development (Technical Education & Skill Development Dept). The company has set goal of nurturing micro entrepreneurship and skilling 50 lakh drivers by 2020. Ola said as part of this initiative, it will work closely with the State's Skill Development Department in providing essential training infrastructure, utilities and technology framework that will ensure an improved employment scenario for the youth of Madhya Pradesh. Along with skilling and training thousands of men and women, Ola said it will also organise on-ground events, build communication modules and create a ...

Ola joins hands with Gorb to offer food to customers at discounted rates

The will provide a discount of Rs 100 on a minimum order value of Rs 200

Ola raises $330 mn at $3.5-bn valuation

Valuation 30% lower, as SoftBank marked down its investment in the cab aggregator

Ola, Uber drivers call off strike as companies promise to fulfil demands

Development comes as Delhi govt called a meeting between drivers and representatives of Uber and Ola

Ola hires Pranav Tiwari, Sanjay Kharb to lead Engineering departments

Both Pranav and Sanjay's roles are critical and essential to steer Ola to its next phase of growth

Ola slashes fares in Bengaluru despite driver protests of falling earnings

Firm's Mini category fares cut from Rs 10 per km to Rs 8, Prime services from Rs 13 per km to Rs 10

Ola appoints Badri Raghavan as chief data scientist

Prior to Ola, Badri was the Chief Data Scientist and Founding CTO of FirstFuel Software

Ola names PepsiCo's Vishal Kaul as COO

Growing trend among Indian start-ups to bring experienced professionals to run business

Ola appoints former PepsiCo executive Vishal Kaul as COO

Jivrajka has now been appointed as Founding Partner, he succeeds Pranay Jivrajk

Ola partners with Apollo to train drivers for on-road medical emergencies

Partnership will offer medical benefits, accident insurance at discounted rates to driver partners

Ola ropes in SAB Miller's Shalabh Seth to head its leasing unit

He'll look at growing supply of cars and also bring more drivers into Ola's fold