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<ul><li><keyword id="3820" type="PERSON" weightage="20" keywordseo="Mukesh-Ambani">Mukesh Ambani</keyword>’s <keyword id="2003276" type="PERSON" weightage="20" keywordseo="Jio">Jio</keyword> has partnered with <keyword id="6354576" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="20" keywordseo="facebook">Facebook</keyword> which many think is a bid to build the next <keyword id="3848715" type="PERSON" weightage="20" keywordseo="Super-app">super app</keyword> for India.</li><li>Historically, super app experiments in the country have not been sustainable.</li><li>Currently, it’s not known whether Jio or WhatsApp will be the new super app — or if it will be a new independent super app altogether.</li><li>Payments may be oil for e-commerce, but a lot of these uncertainties and questions will only be answered in the weeks and months to follow.</li></ul>In a bid to be India’s Alibaba, the country’s richest man Mukesh Ambani is attempting something where others have failed — building a super app. The <a href="https://www.businessinsider.in/tech/news/heres-why-facebooks-mark-zuckerberg-is-paying-top-dollar-for-a-stake-in-mukesh-ambanis-reliance-jio/articleshow/75286331.cms">$5.7 billion deal with Facebook</a> is another step by <keyword id="6354504" type="DEFINITION" weightage="20" keywordseo="reliance-jio">Reliance Jio</keyword> towards a super app — an idea that hasn’t worked in India so far. Even if it takes off this time, there will be other uncomfortable questions for Ambani as well as his new friend <keyword id="6354630" type="PERSON" weightage="20" keywordseo="mark-zuckerberg">Mark Zuckerberg</keyword> who is looking to capture a big chunk of the millions of Indians who are yet to use the internet. <div type="image" title="pjote grid (6)" msid="75343777" hostid="261" caption="&amp;lt;p&amp;gt;A WhatsApp super app, a Jio super app, or a third new super app altogether — nobody really knows. The bigger question is why attempt building a super app in a country where, historically, super apps haven&amp;#39;t worked out.&amp;lt;/p&amp;gt;"></div> The Mittal experience Facebook and Reliance are not the first to try out the super app in India. Hike, an eight-year-old startup with 2 million weekly active users as of December 2019, had to pivot away from the super app idea after working on it for six years. “Do consumers want a super app on a super app is the question that we asked and in 2017, we concluded that was not going to be the future,” said <a href="https://www.businessinsider.in/tech/apps/news/exclusive-kavin-mittal-says-hike-will-look-to-make-money-this-year-heres-how/articleshow/73924944.cms">Kavin Mittal</a>, the founder and CEO of Hike, told Business Insider during an interview in February. <div type="Article" hostid="261" msid="73924944" title="Exclusive: Kavin Mittal says Hike will look to make money this year —here's how" mstype="2" mssubtype="0"></div> “Given that India is not like China — in that it’s open to competition from the world — building a super app wasn’t the way to go forward. In a market with very cheap 4G and good smartphones, the smartphone becomes the super app,” Mittal went on to explain. However, Mittal didn’t have the wide array of businesses that could leverage each other or the deep pockets like Ambani does. The difference in context for Ambani Reliance Jio is just one of the many businesses that Ambani owns — refining, petrochemicals, and retail being the other major segments ⁠— and he wants the super app to complement his vast network of <a href="https://www.businessinsider.in/business/ecommerce/news/from-reliance-jiomart-to-unicorns-and-other-startups-all-line-up-to-serve-kiranas-indias-mom-n-pop-stores/articleshow/75324026.cms">10,901 retail stores and sourcing prowess</a> to beat his primary competitors Amazon, Walmart-owned Flipkart and Future Retail. <div type="Article" hostid="261" msid="75290132" title="Jio, a 3-year old telecom company, is now bigger than HDFC, Infosys and ITC – and India's largest bank" mstype="2" mssubtype="0"></div> Further, Ambani who has been touting the phrase ‘data is the new oil’ for a few years now wants access to as much information on his users as possible. In the process, Jio, which was born as a mobile service provider just 3 years ago, has quickly added everything from movies to music to the upcoming services like e-commerce, and even <a href="https://www.businessinsider.in/reliance-jio-fired-up-as-mukesh-ambani-joins-hands-with-satya-nadellas-microsoft-to-challenge-jeff-bezos-in-india/articleshow/70641754.cms">virtual reality (VR) shopping.</a> Now, Ambani wants to bring 30 million small shops and business owners onto his new commerce platform, JioMart, in the next one year. Facebook brings the missing piece of the puzzle — WhatsApp, India’s most-used messaging service, and a motherload of user data from its 400 million monthly active users (MAUs) in India. “Not many telecoms in the world have this kind of ecosystem control — right from content to music to movies as well as having all the different apps within that ecosystem. What was missing was the commerce piece of it,” Tarun Pathak, an associate director at research analytics firm Counterpoint, told Business Insider. Both Zuckerberg and Ambani have another common grouse too. Their respective e-payments service, Jio money and WhatsApp payments, have not taken off in a big way so far. And as Akhil Handa, head of fintech at Bank of Baroda, told Business Insider, “Payments is oil for e-commerce.” <div type="javascript" title="Custom" contenttype="Video"><cdata><![CDATA[]]></cdata></div> “In my mind, WhatsApp Pay and Jio Money will all hopefully get rolled into one,” Vikram Sud, an independent director at DBS told <a href="https://www.businessinsider.in/tech/news/whatsapp-is-the-secret-sauce-in-the-deal-between-facebook-and-reliance-jio/articleshow/75296172.cms">Business Insider.</a> Together, they will have the muscle to disrupt a crowded payments market both in terms of money and a mammoth data bank to market itself optimally. <table style="border-width: initial; border-style: none; width: 468pt; table-layout: fixed;"></colgroup><tbody><tr><td style="border-left:solid #000000 1pt;border-right:solid #000000 1pt;border-bottom:solid #000000 1pt;border-top:solid #000000 1pt;vertical-align:top;padding:5pt 5pt 5pt 5pt;overflow:hidden;overflow-wrap:break-word;">Platform </td><td style="border-left:solid #000000 1pt;border-right:solid #000000 1pt;border-bottom:solid #000000 1pt;border-top:solid #000000 1pt;vertical-align:top;padding:5pt 5pt 5pt 5pt;overflow:hidden;overflow-wrap:break-word;">Users </td></tr><tr><td style="border-left:solid #000000 1pt;border-right:solid #000000 1pt;border-bottom:solid #000000 1pt;border-top:solid #000000 1pt;vertical-align:top;padding:5pt 5pt 5pt 5pt;overflow:hidden;overflow-wrap:break-word;">WhatsApp </td><td style="border-left:solid #000000 1pt;border-right:solid #000000 1pt;border-bottom:solid #000000 1pt;border-top:solid #000000 1pt;vertical-align:top;padding:5pt 5pt 5pt 5pt;overflow:hidden;overflow-wrap:break-word;">400 million MAU* </td></tr><tr><td style="border-left:solid #000000 1pt;border-right:solid #000000 1pt;border-bottom:solid #000000 1pt;border-top:solid #000000 1pt;vertical-align:top;padding:5pt 5pt 5pt 5pt;overflow:hidden;overflow-wrap:break-word;">Facebook </td><td style="border-left:solid #000000 1pt;border-right:solid #000000 1pt;border-bottom:solid #000000 1pt;border-top:solid #000000 1pt;vertical-align:top;padding:5pt 5pt 5pt 5pt;overflow:hidden;overflow-wrap:break-word;">250 million MAU </td></tr><tr><td style="border-left:solid #000000 1pt;border-right:solid #000000 1pt;border-bottom:solid #000000 1pt;border-top:solid #000000 1pt;vertical-align:top;padding:5pt 5pt 5pt 5pt;overflow:hidden;overflow-wrap:break-word;">Jio </td><td style="border-left:solid #000000 1pt;border-right:solid #000000 1pt;border-bottom:solid #000000 1pt;border-top:solid #000000 1pt;vertical-align:top;padding:5pt 5pt 5pt 5pt;overflow:hidden;overflow-wrap:break-word;">366 million subscribers </td></tr></tbody></table>*MAU: Monthly active users Size matters but not always Pathak believes that the success of the super app will depend on whether it can prove to be ‘sticky’ enough for users to stay. “In India, it’s about value for money. If I’m getting a good deal on a particular platform, it’s not going to matter whether I’m hooked to a particular super app or not,” explained Pathak. On the other hand, <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/vibar/?originalSubdomain=sg">Vibhu Arya</a>, the head partnerships &amp; big deals in South East Asia for Tencent-backed iPaylinks. predicts that the success of an app like this is pretty low. “A super app tied to a parent like Jio Telco and Reliance Retail defeats the very purpose of a super app ushering in conflict of interest for other sellers,” Arya told Business Insider. Right now, there isn’t clarity around the Reliance-Facebook concept of a super app. The world doesn’t know if it’s going to be on WhatsApp, if it’s going to be on Jio, or will it be an entirely new independent super app co-owned by both. “If WhatsApp becomes the super app and Reliance is only one of the many sellers, there’s no conflict. In an ideal scenario, if WhatsApp needs to build a super app — there is no advantage that Reliance brings to it,” Arya explained. Citing the example of WeChat, he said that anyone can set up a store on the platform — from a mom making pastries to international giants like Louis Vuitton. Consumers are chatting — they can build a relationship with a brand or a seller. Then they use payments within the app to complete the transaction. It’s essentially an operating system on a smartphone and customers don’t have any other options. A lot of these uncertainties and questions will only be answered in the weeks and months to follow. See also: <a href="https://www.businessinsider.in/tech/news/heres-why-facebooks-mark-zuckerberg-is-paying-top-dollar-for-a-stake-in-mukesh-ambanis-reliance-jio/articleshow/75286331.cms">Here's why Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg is paying top dollar for a stake in Mukesh Ambani's Reliance Jio</a> <a href="https://www.businessinsider.in/tech/news/whatsapp-is-the-secret-sauce-in-the-deal-between-facebook-and-reliance-jio/articleshow/75296172.cms">WhatsApp is the secret sauce in the deal between Facebook and Reliance Jio</a> <a href="https://www.businessinsider.in/business/startups/news/reliance-and-facebook-all-set-to-innovate-together-for-a-post-corona-world-their-startup-acquisitions-certainly-say-so/articleshow/75290353.cms">The Indian startups backed by Reliance Industries and Facebook have a lot in common</a>

To be India’s Alibaba, Mukesh Ambani wants a super app with Facebook⁠— but an all-in-one app is not known to work so far

<ul><li>Facebook founder and CEO <keyword id="6354630" type="PERSON" weightage="20" keywordseo="mark-zuckerberg">Mark Zuckerberg</keyword> opened up about his $5.7 billion investment in Asia’s richest man <keyword id="3820" type="PERSON" weightage="20" keywordseo="Mukesh-Ambani">Mukesh Ambani</keyword>’s <keyword id="6354504" type="DEFINITION" weightage="20" keywordseo="reliance-jio">Reliance Jio</keyword>. </li><li>Zuckerberg has reaffirmed his interest in India – the largest user base for Facebook and <keyword id="790242" type="COMPANY" weightage="20" keywordseo="WhatsApp">WhatsApp</keyword>. </li><li>The Facebook-Jio partnership will also become the testing ground for innovation for WhatsApp. </li></ul>Social media giant Facebook announced its first quarter earnings to report a revenue of $17.74 billion on Thursday. During the call, Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg also opened up about his $5.7 billion investment into Reliance Jio led by Asia’s richest man Mukesh Ambani. The largest tech deal in India stoked interest along with rumours that Zuckerberg and Ambani will come together to build a super app. And now, Zuckerberg reaffirmed his interest in India – the largest user base for Facebook and WhatsApp. “By bringing together JioMart, which is Jio's small business initiative to connect millions of shops across India with WhatsApp, we think that we're going to be able to create a much better shopping and commerce experience. And there's a lot more that we can do here, and I'm looking forward to making progress with the team at Jio,” he said during the call. The country with the largest WhatsApp community With the investment in Jio, Zuckerberg is reinstating his faith in e-commerce. He said that on WhatsApp, they have started rolling out things like catalogs and working on payments through which complete transactions can take place. He also spoke about WhatsApp’s click to messaging ads for businesses. And a lot of it could possibly begin with the Jio partnership in India. “From what they have described to us, JioMart’s vision is that there are millions of small businesses and shops across India and they want to try to help get them on to a single network that you'll be able to communicate with through WhatsApp and do payments online through WhatsApp. So I think of that as a great, very large example of how we can wire up and help small businesses in the country where we have the largest WhatsApp community,” said Zuckerberg. The Facebook-Jio partnership will also become the testing ground for innovation for WhatsApp. Zuckerberg confirmed that all the products and technology that they're building to enable the Jio partnership are going to be things that they want to do around the world. ‘The need to build digital storefronts’ Interestingly Zuckerberg also spoke about how the coronavirus pandemic has resulted in many businesses shutting down their physical storefronts and this brings about the need to build digital storefronts. And this is exactly what the Reliance acquired startup Nowfloats promises to do. In December 2019, RIL invested $20 million for a majority stake in Nowfloats – a startup that helps businesses and individuals, who don’t have any web developing skills, build an online presence. Jasminder Singh Gulati, co-founder of NowFloats, tweeted about the coincidental chronology of events after Zuckerberg spoke about digital storefronts. “Our app NowFloats Boost, builds storefronts using chat, in a minute or so, with just about 5 interactive messages (it was via 4 SMS when we started in 2013). Jio acquired a majority stake in NowFloats last year,” he wrote. See Also: <a href="https://www.businessinsider.in/business/startups/news/vijay-shekhar-sharma-is-much-closer-to-a-super-app-than-mukesh-ambani-or-mark-zuckerberg/articleshow/75447200.cms">Vijay Shekhar Sharma is much closer to a super app than Mukesh Ambani or Mark Zuckerberg</a> <a href="https://www.businessinsider.in/tech/apps/news/mukesh-ambani-wants-to-be-alibaba-with-reliance-jio-super-app-and-investment-from-facebook/articleshow/75343540.cms">To be India’s Alibaba, Mukesh Ambani wants a super app with Facebook⁠— but an all-in-one app is not known to work so far</a>

On Facebook earnings call, Mark Zuckerberg opens up about his deal with Mukesh Ambani’s Reliance Jio

<ul><li>The Indian government recently banned 59 Chinese apps, including file sharing app Xender.</li><li>We have compiled a list of top Xender alternatives that you can use to share your files.</li><li>If you are looking for other <keyword id="7185640" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="20" keywordseo="chinese-app">Chinese app</keyword> alternatives, <a href="https://www.businessinsider.in/tech/apps/news/chinese-app-alternatives-here-are-the-alternatives-to-top-chinese-apps/tiktok-/slidelist/76463292.cms">check out our list here</a>.</li></ul>Xender is one of the most popular file sharing apps available on Android. It lets you share files in a breeze, which makes it an extremely useful app whether you’re a student or an office-going employee. Xender is one of the <a href="https://www.businessinsider.in/tech/apps/news/checkout-the-name-of-the-chinese-banned-apps-in-india/articleshow/76696132.cms">59 Chinese apps banned</a> in India by the government. It might be time to look for a Xender replacement if you are currently using the app. There are several Xender alternatives that can be downloaded and used for free. In this post, we look at the top Xender alternatives. <div type="Article" hostid="261" msid="76696132" title="List of 59 Chinese apps banned in India by Indian government" mstype="2" mssubtype="0"></div> Top Xender alternatives Files by Google As the name suggests, the app has been developed by Google. The Files by Google app is easy to use and allows users to transfer files, delete junk files, get rid of duplicate files and more. Download Files by Google from the <a href="https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.google.android.apps.nbu.files">Play Store</a>. SuperBeam SuperBeam is a free app that allows users to easily share files, photos, apps and more with other devices using Wi-Fi Direct. Users can pair with the other device using NFC or QR codes. Download SuperBeam from the <a href="https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.majedev.superbeam">Play Store</a> and the <a href="https://apps.apple.com/us/app/superbeam-lite-easy-fast-wifi-direct-file-sharing/id945389726">App Store</a>. <keyword id="9550268" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="20" keywordseo="jioswitch">JioSwitch</keyword> The JioSwitch app is part of Reliance Jio’s suite of apps and offers an ad-free experience to users. It allows users to share files with other devices offline using Wi-Fi Direct. It also allows users to share files across platforms, meaning a user can share files from an Android device to an iOS device. Download JioSwitch from the <a href="https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.reliance.jio.jioswitch&amp;hl=en_IN">Play Store</a> and the <a href="https://apps.apple.com/in/app/jioswitch-transfer-share-files/id921382666">App Store</a>. <keyword id="9550269" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="20" keywordseo="shareall">ShareAll</keyword> ShareAll is a simple and easy to use file sharing app that is very small in size. It allows users to quickly share files, images, apps and more with other devices. The app does not have any other features and only supports file sharing. Download ShareAll from the <a href="https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.loku.parralel.share.data.filetransfer.sharing.free&amp;hl=en_IN">Play Store</a>. Send Anywhere Send Anywhere is a simple file sharing app that allows users to share files, apps, images and more using Wi-Fi Direct. It is available for both Android and iOS devices. Download Send Anywhere from the <a href="https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.estmob.android.sendanywhere&amp;hl=en_IN">Play Store</a> and the <a href="https://apps.apple.com/in/app/send-anywhere-file-transfer/id596642855">App Store</a>. SEE ALSO: <a href="https://www.businessinsider.in/tech/apps/news/top-chinese-camscanner-app-alternatives-adobe-scan-microsoft-office-lens-google-drive-and-more/articleshow/76721925.cms">Top CamScanner alternatives for Android to help you scan documents on the go</a> <a href="https://www.businessinsider.in/tech/apps/news/chinese-uc-browser-app-alternatives-google-chrome-firefox-opera-edge-and-more/articleshow/76724409.cms">Top UC Browser alternatives from Google, Samsung, Opera and others</a> <a href="https://www.businessinsider.in/tech/apps/news/chinese-app-tiktok-alternative-in-indian-market-like-chingari-triller-sharechat-roposo-mitron/articleshow/76725779.cms">Top TikTok alternatives to make and share your videos</a> <a href="https://www.businessinsider.in/tech/apps/news/top-helo-alternatives-to-share-videos-with-your-friends/articleshow/76749335.cms">Top Helo app alternatives to share videos with your friends</a>

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Indian telecom giants <keyword id="15491" type="ORGANIZATION" weightage="100" keywordseo="airtel">Airtel</keyword> and Reliance <keyword id="2003276" type="PERSON" weightage="20" keywordseo="jio">Jio</keyword> have been at loggerheads even before Jio made its super grand entry into the telecom space in India. The two telcos have fought for the top spot to become the number one telecom operator in the country but now it seems like the two are busy fighting it out to gain the position of ‘the most affordable smartphone’ in India. Airtel today announced yet another partnership with smartphone maker <keyword id="1087300" type="COMPANY" weightage="20" keywordseo="Celkon">Celkon</keyword> to offer 4G smartphone at Rs. 1349. Reliance Jio had announced its Jio phone earlier this year at a famously “effectively free” price of Rs. 1499 wherein customers will have to pay for the services only for a fixed period of three years. Competing directly with the Jio phone, under Jio’s “India ka smartphone” campaign, Airtel’s partnership is part of ‘Mera Pehla Smartphone’ initiative where Airtel plans to collaborate with device manufacturers to bring smartphones at the price of a feature phone. Airtel had earlier introduced an <keyword id="6355645" type="COMPANY" weightage="20" keywordseo="android">Android</keyword> smartphone (<keyword id="145729" type="COMPANY" weightage="20" keywordseo="Karbonn">Karbonn</keyword> A40) in association with Karbonn. The Android touchscreen smartphone with dual SIM functionality came at an effective price of Rs. 1,399. However Reliance Jio seems to have hit bit of a roadblock with Jio phone according to a report by Factor Daily. The Report suggests that Reliance Jio has stopped the production of its VoLTE feature phone and is now planning to launch an Android smartphone. The JioPhone runs KaiOS and came packed with all of Jio’s own apps including JioChat, JioMusic, JioTV, Jio Cinema and others. The OS does not support many of the widely used apps such as <keyword id="6354576" type="ORGANIZATION" weightage="20" keywordseo="facebook">Facebook</keyword>, WhatsApp and others. But this walled garden approach did not really work for Jio as these apps have been extremely popular with the consumers. Airtel on the other hand is clearly specifying that the Airtel smartphones will “offer full access to all apps on <keyword id="6355629" type="CITY" weightage="20" keywordseo="Google">Google</keyword> Play Store, including <keyword id="10879" type="CITY" weightage="20" keywordseo="YouTube">YouTube</keyword>, Facebook and WhatsApp”, apart from preloaded Airtel apps such as MyAirtel App, Wynk Music and Airtel TV. While both players are ultimately trying to lap up subscribers on their network through their new feature-ish smatphones, they should know that the smartphone market is changing rapidly in India and the consumers are increasingly going for experience more than affordability.

Airtel-Reliance Jio battle heats up yet again but on a whole new battleground

<ul><li><keyword id="8555" type="General" weightage="20" keywordseo="tata" source="Orion">Tata</keyword> Neu is an all-in-one platform that will offer electronics, groceries, and getaways.</li><li>Tata Group revealed the launch date of `Neu` on its app and Google Play Store.</li><li>Neu will compete against Amazon, Flipkart, and Jio.</li></ul>Tata group is all set to launch its super app ‘Neu’ on April 7. Neu will challenge Flipkart, Amazon, and Jio platforms in the digital e-commerce space. The company has made the announcement with a teaser image on the Google Play Store page. The first public advertisement of the Neu was seen along with the ongoing Indian Premier League cricket tournament. Tata Neu — everything you need to know Tata Neu is a unified platform that will connect multiple brands across the Tata universe of products and services. According to the company, this super app will offer everything from electronics, finance solutions, grocery, flights, holidays, and more such services. Each brand on Tata Neu will be connected by a common reward called NeuCoins, which can be earned and redeemed across all Tata brands and at physical stores. The company added that users can make payments across multiple Tata brands by using NeuCoins, UPI, cards, and other modes. Additionally, you can send money to friends and family using Tata Pay UPI. Before the launch of Neu, this super app was made available to the Tata employees for testing. For the promotion of the Super App, Tata had also given some Super Neo Coins to all its employees to spend in exchange for purchases on the app. Recently, Tata Group has acquired a majority stake in<a href="https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/company/corporate-trends/tatas-tejas-acquires-majority-stake-in-semiconductor-firm-saankhya-lab/articleshow/90550180.cms" data-type="tilCustomLink"> Saankhya Lab</a>, a semiconductor firm. With the acquisition of Saankhya Lab, the company aims to foray into the semiconductor business. Earlier this year in January Tata group also acquired Air India airlines and very recently it replaced the Chinese mobile manufacturer Vivo as the title sponsor of the Indian Premier League for 2022 and 2023. See also: <a href="https://www.businessinsider.in/tech/apps/news/whatsapp-might-soon-limit-forwarding-messages-in-groups-to-curb-the-spread-of-misinformation/articleshow/90634763.cms">WhatsApp might soon limit forwarding messages in groups to curb the spread of misinformation</a> <a href="https://www.businessinsider.in/tech/how-to/how-to-stop-spotify-from-opening-on-startup-on-your-mac-computer/articleshow/90601527.cms">How to stop Spotify from opening on startup on your Mac computer</a> <a href="https://www.businessinsider.in/tech/how-to/how-to-record-a-google-meet-video-call-in-5-steps-to-rewatch-or-share-the-meeting-later/articleshow/76331452.cms">How to record a Google Meet video call to rewatch or share the meeting later</a>

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<ul><li>Facebook has bought 9.9% in Reliance Jio for $5.7 billion. </li><li>The bigger reason for the buy-in is how <keyword id="4878801" type="PERSON" weightage="20" keywordseo="whatsapp-pay">WhatsApp Pay</keyword> and Reliance Retail can use this partnership to help each other out. </li><li>The payments platform can use Reliance’s massive network of offline stores to monetise its data, while Reliance can use the ‘household’ name to finally yield success with a seamless payments system. </li></ul>Everyone is excited about the deal between Facebook and Reliance Jio in hope that it will result in a new ‘super app’ for India. However, the partnership between Facebook and Reliance Jio has a few more layers than what is visible at first glance. The secret sauce to this deal is the potential for Facebook’s payment solutions — <a href="https://www.businessinsider.in/whatsapp-payments-launching-in-india-against-paytm-google-pay-phone-pe-for-1-trillion-opporunity/articleshow/70376672.cms">WhatsApp Pay</a>. And, this is the reason why <keyword id="6354630" type="PERSON" weightage="20" keywordseo="mark-zuckerberg">Mark Zuckerberg</keyword> is <a href="https://www.businessinsider.in/tech/news/heres-why-facebooks-mark-zuckerberg-is-paying-top-dollar-for-a-stake-in-mukesh-ambanis-reliance-jio/articleshow/75286331.cms">paying top dollar for a stake</a> in <keyword id="3820" type="PERSON" weightage="20" keywordseo="Mukesh-Ambani">Mukesh Ambani</keyword>’s Reliance Jio. “Our goal is to enable new opportunities for businesses of all sizes, but especially for the more than 60 million small businesses across India,” said Facebook’s chief revenue officer, David Fisher, and the VP and managing director of India, Ajit Mohan in a <a href="https://about.fb.com/news/2020/04/facebook-invests-in-jio/">post.</a> Zuckerberg’s social network has <a href="https://www.businessinsider.in/business/news/facebook-picks-up-10-stake-in-jio-platform-for-rs-43574-cr/articleshow/75283937.cms">bought a 9.9% stake</a> in Reliance’s telecom venture for $5.7 billion. However, the second richest man in India — Mukesh Ambani — also owns the country’s biggest retail chain, Reliance Retail. It will now be a force of power to ensure that WhatsApp Pay has a chance of success in the Indian market despite being such a late entrant. “PayTM, PhonePe and other players will be impacted. They don’t have as much e-commerce as these guys will have. That will make a big difference,” Vikram Sud, an independent director at DBS told Business Insider. Retaining employment at brick-and-mortar stores rather than wipe it out “This is an amazing partnership on the payments side. Whatsapp Pay did not have the commercial sides of it as Whatsapp was trying to creep into the business. Now, between Whatsapp, Instagram and Facebook — all the commerce can be done through Whatsapp Pay,” said Sud. Jio’s plan to <a href="https://www.businessinsider.in/business/news/mukesh-ambani-owned-reliance-retail-revenue-estimate-from-kirana-stores/articleshow/71643159.cms">pull all kirana stores</a> and combine it with this payment mechanism will be a massive competition to Amazon and all other e-commerce players. You will get delivery from local stores while also helping them retain their employment unlike the advent of Amazon and Walmart, who have been <a href="https://www.businessinsider.in/if-were-living-through-a-retail-apocalypse-why-are-e-commerce-leaders-like-amazon-alibaba-and-jd-com-so-focused-on-building-brick-and-mortar-stores/articleshow/70849067.cms">chipping away</a> at the brick-and-mortar business. “By bringing together JioMart, Jio’s small business initiative, with the power of WhatsApp, we can enable people to connect with businesses, shop and ultimately purchase products in a seamless mobile experience,” said Facebook. And that’s the play that global IT giant is primarily aiming for, according to a senior industry analyst. They weren’t able to monetise it but that doesn’t change the fact that they're sitting on a huge pile of data. This is something they will now be able to leverage and monetise by using Jio Mart's reach. It’s a win-win situation for Ambani and Zuckerberg “In my mind, Whatsapp Pay and Jio money will all hopefully get rolled into one. It will just make it quicker since there is nobody in India that doesn't have WhatsApp,” said Sud. WhatsApp has been testing its payments platform in India since 2018. It was only available to a million users under a partnership with ICICI Bank. 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<ul><li>Social media app <keyword id="9520177" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="20" keywordseo="elyments">Elyments</keyword> has stopped working a day after it was launched by Indian Vice President.</li><li>The app has been developed by over 1,000 IT professionals from across the country.</li><li>It allows users to make new friends, chat, make audio and video calls and more.</li></ul>The Elyments app crossed over 100,000 downloads on the Play Store within the first 24 hours of its <a href="https://www.businessinsider.in/tech/news/india-vice-president-launches-a-social-media-super-app-elyments-which-will-take-on-facebook-instagram-and-whatsapp/articleshow/76796178.cms">launch</a> by the Indian Vice President Venkaiah Naidu. Dubbed as India’s first social media super app that will offer all features that are available on Facebook, WhatsApp and Instagram. However, soon after the launch, several users have reported that the app is not working from several hours. During the sign-up procedure, the user is required to verify their mobile number by entering a 4-digit OTP. However, even after several attempts, the app does not send an OTP to the user. <div type="image" title="Elyments" msid="76807802" hostid="261" caption="&amp;lt;p&amp;gt;Elyments&amp;lt;/p&amp;gt;"></div> We tried to register on the Elyments app using four different numbers but did not receive the OTP on any number. We have reached out to the company for an update and are awaiting their response. Several users have taken to social media platforms such as Twitter to talk about not being able to sign up for the app. Queries sent to the spokesperson remain unanswered at the time of publication. <div type="twitter" handle="prashis_twit" handlename="Prashis U" image="http://pbs.twimg.com/profile_images/649944373975773184/sHYFbNmr_normal.jpg" favoritecount="0" retweetcount="0" status="Waiting for OTP but not receiving any.#Elyments #elymentsapp #ElymentsSuperApp https://t.co/dAukI3eJHO" createdat="1594009693000" id="1279995546027954176"></div> <div type="twitter" handle="SPK_2908" handlename="Srikar Prasad K." image="http://pbs.twimg.com/profile_images/1242474996691132416/EMjbpqD0_normal.jpg" favoritecount="2" retweetcount="0" status="@ElymentsApp I m not getting my OTP.. trying since yesterday.. plz help me out...And if any OTP I get it shows inv… https://t.co/YqdVTQtchL" createdat="1594008740000" id="1279991546998214658"></div> What is Elyments? Elyments is a social media app that has been built in India keeping in mind user’s privacy as one of the primary objectives. It supports 10 languages and allows users to chat with their friends, make audio and video calls, meet new people, get alerts and more. The app has reportedly been built by over a thousand IT professionals from across the country. Why this fanfare around Elyments? The app has been launched at a time when India is engaged in a border dispute with China and has banned <a href="https://www.businessinsider.in/india/news/tiktok-shareit-uc-browser-club-factory-among-59-chinese-apps-banned-by-the-indian-government/articleshow/76694483.cms">59 apps</a>, including TikTok. Prime Minister Narendra Modi has been advocating for an ‘Aatmanirbhar Bharat’ and urged innovators and entrepreneurs to build for India. “India is an IT powerhouse and we have some of the world’s best-known names in this field. With such a huge pool of talented professionals, I feel there should be many more such innovations coming out in future,” said Vice President Venkaiah Naidu while launching the app. SEE ALSO: <a href="https://www.businessinsider.in/tech/news/india-vice-president-launches-a-social-media-super-app-elyments-which-will-take-on-facebook-instagram-and-whatsapp/articleshow/76796178.cms">India’s Vice President launches a social media super app Elyments, which will take on Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp</a> <a href="https://www.businessinsider.in/tech/apps/news/reliance-jio-launches-jiomeet-app-to-take-on-zoom/articleshow/76762100.cms">Reliance Jio launches JioMeet app to take on Zoom</a> <a href="https://www.businessinsider.in/tech/apps/news/chinese-app-tiktok-alternative-in-indian-market-like-chingari-triller-sharechat-roposo-mitron/articleshow/76725779.cms">Top TikTok alternatives to make and share your videos</a>

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New Delhi, May 26 () Billionaire Mukesh Ambani's Reliance Industries has launched an online extension of its grocery business under JioMart brand across 200 cities. The service is being offered in all leading metros (Mumbai, Delhi, Bengaluru and Kolkata), and even in smaller towns like Mysuru, Bhatinda and Dehradun. JioMart is now delivering in more than 200 cities, Damodar Mall, the chief executive officer of Reliance Retail's grocery business said in a tweet. JioMart last month started a pilot project serving users in three neighbourhoods surrounding Mumbai. Credit Suisse said, "The national roll-out provides customers with a useful alternative to existing players (BigBasket, Grofers) as online grocery orders have spiked, given the fewer store visits". D-Mart, it said, mentioned that April revenues are down 45 per cent year-on-year as nearly 50 per cent of the stores are shut or have very restricted hours of operation. Therefore, online orders should help offset some of the lower sales in physical stores. CLSA said as of now, the website will only use Reliance's offline grocery supply chain as its backbone and deliver to homes. "Success at its ongoing beta tests in Navi Mumbai, which also encompasses mom and pop stores and uses WhatsApp as a platform to order, will be later extended to pan-India," it said. Users can order from a full suite of grocery items by visiting the JioMart website. Products include fruits and vegetables, dairy and baked goods, staples, snacks and branded foods, beverages, and personal and home care. Reliance's private labels also featured prominently. "While it does not commit on a delivery timeline when ordering (due to the lockdown), it aims to deliver orders within a two-day timeframe," CLSA said. Eventually, like other online retailers, it is possible that Reliance integrates its entire retail offerings, including fashion, lifestyle and consumer electronics, onto one super e-commerce platform and mobile app. "This, along with a pan-India extension of partnerships with mom &amp; pop stores after a successful beta test and ramp-up of this new commerce venture is crucial in Reliance's grand plan of converting Jio's 400 million-plus subscribers into customers for its eCommerce and other offerings," CLSA said. Recent partnerships with Facebook-owned WhatsApp for JioMart will only help in increasing monetisation opportunities by increasing the convenience and reach of consumers. The grocery platform was previously piloting deliveries only in select areas of Mumbai. "JioMart has seen a 4x rise in online orders from a low base. With its pan India presence JioMart now directly competes with Amazon and Flipkart in eCommerce," Bernstein said in a separate report. Grocery is 70 per cent of the Indian retail market, 90 per cent-plus unorganised, driven by Kirana stores/small retailers. "Organised penetration is less than 10 per cent while online penetration for grocery is less than 1 per cent," it said. Facebook has made a bigger push into e-commerce with the launch of Shops. "The idea is to bring millions of small businesses online. This will allow free online storefronts for small businesses and retailers and expand Facebook presence across Instagram, WhatsApp and Messenger," Bernstein said. "Facebook shops will be complimentary to WhatsApp business use to sign and onboard Kirana stores for JioMart (grocery app of Reliance Retail)." Credit Suisse said JioMart currently fulfills the order by own entity and kiranas likely to be on-boarded subsequently. "The platform lists all the major grocery categories like fruits and vegetables, staples, dairy and bakery, snacks, beverages, personal care, home care and baby care. "In terms of pricing, Reliance has extended the Smart promise of 'minimum 5 per cent off on MRP' to all products on JioMart. The discount is higher on its private label brands, and is competitive to branded products," it said. Reliance Retail had been piloting the initiative in Navi Mumbai, Thane and Kalyan among select population group. It was serving these customers through both Kirana stores and their own warehouses. It also set up Smart Points, which were acting as delivery points in neighbourhood. However, orders post the national launch are being serviced by Reliance Smart and Fresh stores, Sahakari Bhandar stores (owned by Reliance retail), and is not yet fully leveraging kirana network (as on-boarding of Kirana stores is still ongoing), Credit Suisse said. "Just prior to the national launch, Reliance Retail tapped the WhatsApp customer base in the three pilot regions to source orders. In our view, it was just a test phase of integration. The orders were available only for pick-up from nearby Kirana store, whose details were sent to the customer via WhatsApp. However, the national launch, so far, does not have integration with WhatsApp," it said. The brokerage said it placed an order on JioMart but the delivered order value was 55 per cent of the booked order value, due to inventory limitation in the nearby Sahakari Bhandar store. ANZ BAL

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