Amazon, Flipkart to join India's open network for digital commerce; Uber to expand India tech team by 50 percent

Amazon and Walmart's Flipkart unit are joining the country's new Open Network for Digital Commerce, Economic Times reports. The network is being compared with India's Unified Payments Interface, to support the idea that it could do for online commerce what UPI did for payments. And Uber, which is looking to cut costs in the US, is significantly and rapidly expanding its tech team in India