Tata to launched super app covering range of digital services

India’s Tata Group is pushing into the country’s booming tech sector with a new “super app” that will bring together its disparate consumer services for the first time.

Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2020

 Key-Points

A super app is a platform developed by a company offering various services under one umbrella.

For example, China’s WeChat, which started out as a messaging app, expanded into payments, cabs, shopping, food ordering, cab services to become a super app.

A physical world comparison of a super app would be a mall, which allows retail space to various brands and shops across businesses and verticals.

Typically, companies that have a slew of services and products to offer tend to consolidate these offerings into a super app.