{"id":682,"date":"2020-04-22T16:28:41","date_gmt":"2020-04-22T10:58:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bizinnings.com\/blog\/?p=682"},"modified":"2020-04-22T19:46:34","modified_gmt":"2020-04-22T14:16:34","slug":"facebook-to-invest-rs-43574-crore-in-reliance-jio-for-9-9-stake","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bizinnings.com\/blog\/facebook-to-invest-rs-43574-crore-in-reliance-jio-for-9-9-stake\/","title":{"rendered":"Facebook to invest Rs 43,574 crore in Reliance Jio for 9.9% stake."},"content":{"rendered":"

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Yes, it’s official now. Mark Zukerberg in his tweet confirmed that Facebook is to buy a 9.99% equity<\/a> stake in Mukesh Ambani\u2019s Reliance Jio, with an eye on ever-growing small businesses and potentially the largest digital customer base of 1.3 billion. This new collaboration is to further bring us close to our dream of becoming the world’s number one manufacturing hub as both the giants are determined to empower the Kiranas and small business in the country.<\/p>\n

Facebook-Reliance Jio USD 5.7 billion (INR 43,574 crore) deal:\u00a0<\/b>\u00a0In this striking deal, Facebook has agreed to buy a 9.99% equity stake in Reliance Jio for INR 43,574 crore(USD 5.7 billion), with an eye on India’s 6+ crore small businesses and a huge digital customer base of 1.3 billion users. The deal valued Muskeh’s Reliance Jio at INR 4.62 lakh crore. With this new deal, Facebook aims to get a stronghold in the potential market of India\u2019s evergrowing small and medium businesses, 120 million farmers, and 30 million small merchants, for its social media apps Facebook,\u00a0WhatsApp\u00a0and Instagram, the statement said.<\/p>\n

This is the giant size investment for a minority stake by a technology company anywhere in the world and so far the largest FDI in the technology sector in India, they said. The new investment values Mukesh Ambani’s Jio as one of the five biggest companies in India by market capitalisation. The reliance Jio further added that with this investment they will enable new opportunities for businesses of all sizes, exclusively for small businesses across India and create new and strong digital ecosystems that will support and empower the lives of all 1.3 billion Indians.<\/p>\n

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Further, Facebook and Reliance have also agreed to let Reliance Retail use WhatsApp as part of its \u2018New Commerce\u2019 business, riding on JioMart platform, the company said. \u201cJio Platforms, Reliance Retail and WhatsApp have also entered into a commercial partnership agreement to further accelerate Reliance Retail\u2019s New Commerce business on the JioMart platform using WhatsApp and to support small businesses on WhatsApp,\u201d the statement said. Reliance Retail\u2019s JioMart is building a potential rival to e-commerce giants such as\u00a0Amazon\u00a0and\u00a0Flipkart\u00a0in India, by aggregating millions of small merchants and provisional stores to bring them digitally closer to the consumers. \u201cThe companies will work closely to ensure that consumers are able to access the nearest provisional stores who can deliver products and services to their homes by transacting seamlessly with JioMart using WhatsApp. From day one of its inception, Mukesh’s Jio has disrupted the country\u2019s telecom sector by offering very affordable internet prices, forcing other companies to drastically cut their internet rates. The company has expanded from mobile telecoms into everything from home broadband to e-commerce and even gaming. India is a hot cake for tech companies with the country\u2019s rocketing internet user base and magnifying number of smartphone users. In fact, India has just overtaken the US as the second-biggest smartphone market in the world, second only to neighbour China.<\/p>\n

This deal with the global technology giant Facebook comes as a\u00a0 big uplift to Mukesh Ambani at a very bad phase when Reliance group is battling the bad impact of the COVID-19 pandemic and a slump in demand for crude oil, with this new fund<\/a> Reliance should be aiming to reduce the group\u2019s net debt to zero and increase the market share\u00a0in next one year time.<\/p>\n

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Yes, it’s official now. Mark Zukerberg in his tweet confirmed that Facebook is to buy a 9.99% equity stake in Mukesh Ambani’s Reliance Jio, with an eye on ever-growing small businesses and potentially the largest digital customer base of 1.3 billion. This new collaboration is to further bring us close to our dream of becoming […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":694,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"kia_subtitle":"This new deal would allow Facebook to further step up its expansion in India."},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bizinnings.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/682"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bizinnings.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bizinnings.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bizinnings.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bizinnings.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=682"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.bizinnings.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/682\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":699,"href":"https:\/\/www.bizinnings.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/682\/revisions\/699"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bizinnings.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/694"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bizinnings.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=682"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bizinnings.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=682"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bizinnings.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=682"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}