When it comes to the Indian food delivery market, UberEats is a distant third in comparison to its rivals Zomato and Swiggy that clock around 2-2.5 million orders every day

CEO Sriharsha Majety said it won't be many years before they can become the third-largest source of employment in the country.

Food ordering app Zomato is in the focus again after a few hundred delivery executives of the company in North Howrah objected to delivering beef or pork to customers, saying that it harms their religious sentiments.

Zomato: It all started on July 3, when Zomato India tweeted: Guys, kabhi kabhi ghar ka khana bhi kha lena chahiye.

Among the social media category, Facebook has beaten LinkedIn, Instagram and Twitter by bagging the number 3 spot, while the other two stood at 11 and 13 rank

Uber is looking to sell its two-year-old UberEats business in India to cut down losses in the country ahead of its planned IPO, and Swiggy is currently leading the discussions.

Swiggy outscored Zomato by the widest margin - 22 vs 10 - on the parameters relating to trust

Ola's latest round of funding from the two Chinese investment firms comes when the company is eyeing expansion across India and abroad.

Section 377 and the judgment was one of the most-talked about topics on social media on Thursday.

This development comes a little over two months after Swiggy's $210 million Series G round in late-June, which propelled it into the much-coveted unicorn club.

The Gurgaon-based restaurant discovery and food delivery firm has been on an expansion spree in recent times with a record increase in its monthly order volume and hence is increasingly looking to strengthen its core teams

The online food delivery market in India totalled $0.3 billion in 2016. A CAGR of 90 per cent is expected to take the segment to $4 billion by 2020.

Run by Bundl Technologies Pvt Ltd, Swiggy will use the funds to ramp up its supply network as well as to foray into new markets.

Changing its 'merger and acquisition' (M&A) stance, Flipkart is now planning to pour in more funds in prospects which will 'directly help its business', instead of mere financial investments, as it did back in 2014-15.

Ashutosh Sharma, head of investments in India for Naspers will join the Swiggy board.