Mumbai — Facebook is buying a stake in Indian e-commerce startup Meesho, the head of the US tech company’s Indian business said on Thursday, looking to deepen its reach in one of the world’s biggest internet markets.
Meesho, a digital platform on which resellers of everything from jewellery to mobile phones reach prospective customers via social media platforms such as Facebook, WhatsApp and Instagram, already has about 2-million entrepreneurs focused on India'’s smaller towns and cities, the vice-president and MD at Facebook India said...
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