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Classifieds platform OLX has become one of the first large e-commerce companies in India to turn profitable, putting even more pressure on Tiger Global-backed rival Quikr.In disclosures to the registrar of companies for financial year 2016-17, the company reported profit of Rs 8 crore on revenue of Rs 92.5 crore. Earnings rose 58 per cent from the previous year, according to the regulatory filings sourced from Tofler.OLX had reported a loss of Rs 2.1 crore for the 12 months ending March 2016.In June this year, Martin Scheepbouwer, chief executive of the classifieds business for Naspers (it has majority stake in OLX), had said OLX "out executed" Quikr in India. He, however, added that monetising the business in the country was still a few years away."India is a key early market for OLX, in which we had to deploy significant capital in the past years. This investment has been put to very good use by out-executing our main competitor, Quikr," Scheepbouwer had said.Quikr is far from ...