Mukesh Ambani-led Reliance Industries and subsidiaries bought stakes in seven firms in 2018; nine in 2019; and five this year so far; four more are in the pipeline for the year 2020

Mukesh Ambani-led RIL will hold 51 per cent and BP would have 49 per cent stake in the joint venture Jio-BP

Reliance Industries share price rose to Rs 1,593 compared to the previous close of Rs 1,582.45 on BSE

Reliance Strategic Business Ventures, a subsidiary of RIL, proposes to make a further investment of up to Rs 75 crore to acquire 89.66 per cent equity stake in the company

The stake purchase by Reliance Strategic Business Ventures Ltd (RSBVL) is aimed at strengthening the group's digital and new commerce initiatives.

In a report on the 'Tech Unicorns Market Landscape', the venture capital firm stated that on an average, B2B global companies that are built from India, raised $97 million to reach unicorn status

A look at sectors that will drive the start-up economy this year.

A happy Microsoft has now awarded Mohan a global responsibility. From July, he will relocate from Bangalore where he now lives to Redmond, the company's headquarters in the US; he will help set up and boost Microsoft Ventures's presence in the country.

Our selection process this year was very different from that of previous years. This year, we opened up the process - any start-up incorporated since January 2010 could apply through an online application form we put up on our website.

However, despite the sustained growth, the founders say the company could have expanded much faster had they taken more people on board and \"delegated work\" much earlier.

As part of our 2014 listing of the best start-ups in India, we feature social media benchmarking start-up Unmetric that fuses its 100 servers on Amazon Cloud to sift through the web and pull out data on 15,000 brands across 30 different sectors.

The Bangalore-based start-up scans Twitter and collects news on different topics entered by users, and relevant to 55 cities across six countries. Frrole filters these Twitter feeds, thereby making them great plug-ins for television channels and websites. Full coverage of India's Coolest Start-ups 2014

MadRat now has 70 board games that sell in 2,000 big and small stores across India. Having reached the milestone of 100,000 games sold last September, MadRat now has revenues of more than Rs 50 lakh per month.

Kaushal Dugar's fledgling company Teaxpress Pvt. Ltd, founded in 2012, sources tea directly from the gardens in Darjeeling, Assam and the Nilgiris. Now, Dugar dreams of creating an international Indian tea brand.

Sharad Sharma, Co-founder, iSpirt says Indian software products industry is producing one Biocon sized company every year!

\"The idea is that customers should make the payment in a shorter time than it takes to remove money from the wallet,\" says Citrus Chairman Satyen Kothari, who founded the company along with Jitendra Gupta in April 2011 and brought in the initial funding of Rs 16 lakh.

Hyderabad-based NowFloats helps you get a website - and helps promote it as well - without your needing access to the Net, or even a PC. Besides the speed and ease of getting a website up, the company also provides automated search engine optimisation.

FIND rates news items (and views, too) based on the credibility of the source, then scans each word and identifies a sentiment, and combines the two to generate a colour code ' red, green and grey denoting negative, positive and neutral respectively.

Narayan's two-year-old start-up, Business Essentials for Better Businesses (BEBB), buys and sells raw materials - steel to polymers to paints - for small and medium enterprises under a brand smartly named Power2SME.

intelloCut, the software developed by Threadsol Softwares, the start-up founded by Manasij Ganguli and his former colleagues Abhishek Srivastava and Bratish Goswami from Noida's Impetus Infotech, helps cut down fabric wastage.