OYO Rooms
14 Sep 2020
The novel coronavirus pandemic, which has killed nearly a million worldwide, has brought several aspects of the 'routine life' to a halt, including commercial air travel.
04 Sep 2020
The fallout of COVID-19 on the hospitality industry has forced OYO India to extend the furlough period of some of its employees by another six months.
21 Jul 2020
Microsoft-owned professional network LinkedIn has announced that it will be laying off about 960 employees, or 6% of its workforce, around the world.
01 Jun 2020
Following Ritesh Agarwal's OYO Rooms, India's largest travel aggregator MakeMyTrip has laid off 350 employees from its workforce.
07 Apr 2020
The outbreak of coronavirus over the last two months has left economies reeling, business disrupted, and people jobless.
07 Sep 2019
OYO Hotels Founder and CEO Ritesh Agarwal has been booked by the Whitefield police in Bengaluru on charges of cheating and criminal breach.
05 Aug 2019
Graduation is considered an important milestone in a student's learning journey.
05 Jun 2019
Passing on yet another attractive benefit to all its users, Jio has partnered with Hotstar to offer live streaming of Cricket World Cup for free. Notably, Hotstar is the only OTT platform that is streaming live matches but under a paid subscription plan.
02 Jan 2019
In India, "buy now, pay later" payment options are increasingly becoming popular among customers nowadays.
28 Dec 2018
OYO Rooms, India's second-most valuable startup, has offered to buy back shares from current and former employees to the tune of Rs. 40-50cr.
20 Dec 2018
Months after entering India's unicorn club, food delivery platform Swiggy has raised a whopping $1bn in fresh capital from existing and new investors.
25 Sep 2018
Budget hotel chain OYO Rooms has entered India's unicorn club, having raised a whopping $800mn in a round led by Japan's Softbank Vision Fund.
12 Sep 2018
Imagine you are on a dream trip to India but before you leave the country you remain trapped inside a hotel room. The reason? Perverted staff members of the hotel you are lodged at.
16 Aug 2018
It seems that budget hotel network OYO Rooms is getting ready for yet another round of funding, and is reportedly looking to raise an amount between $500mn to $1bn.
24 Jul 2018
A wedding is a dream, and AutoParty by OYO works to fulfill this beautifully.
06 Jun 2018
Start-ups have become popular among job seekers these days in India for the country is emerging as one of the world's fastest-growing start-up hubs.
03 Jun 2018
All the moral and actual policing might make you think that staying in a hotel room in India is illegal, if you are unmarried.
28 May 2018
Though there is no law against unmarried couples sharing a hotel room in India, a recent incident speaks an opposite tale.
20 Feb 2018
Zostel Hospitality, the parent company of ZO Rooms, has sued OYO Rooms in a Gurugram court over data theft.
28 Dec 2017
Popular video-streaming service Netflix is reportedly joining hands with WhatsApp to send content recommendations to users on the Facebook-owned messaging platform.
01 Sep 2017
WhatsApp in the bid to monetize its platform had launched, what it calls, "WhatsApp for Business" for certain select organizations.
17 Aug 2017
Prime Minister Narendra Modi will be meeting the 'champions of change', who have set up successful businesses from the grounds up, today at a session organized by federal policy think tank NITI Aayog.
10 May 2017
Japanese investor SoftBank said it wrote down its investment valuation in Snapdeal and Ola by $1.41 billion. It has written down investments in Snapdeal by $1.01 billion and $400 million in Ola.
27 Apr 2017
According to a media report, OYO Rooms, a budget hotels marketplace operated by Oravel Stays Pvt. Ltd closed a $250 million fundraising round led by existing investor SoftBank Group.
03 Feb 2017
Vanguard Group, an investment firm based in the United States, slashed the valuation of its stake in Ola.
08 Nov 2016
In the wake of India's online start-ups eyeing fresh funding, SoftBank's quarterly results reflected a decline in its returns from investments in start-ups like Ola Cabs and Snapdeal.
14 Sep 2016
According to sources, American venture capital firm, Sequoia Capital, is planning to sell $200 million worth of stakes in eight Indian "non-tech companies" via secondary transactions.
17 Aug 2016
OYO raised over $62 million in a new round of funding led by existing SoftBank Group Corp.
11 Apr 2016
OYO Rooms raised a capital of $100 million in the latest round of funding led by SoftBank.
12 Jan 2016
OYO Rooms announced its expansion to south-east Asia with the launch of its operations in Malaysia.
3 Aug 2015
SoftBank, the Japanese corporation, has decided to invest in OYO Rooms with a Rs.630 crore funding.
