Few top honchos of India Inc did very well in 2014.
The strategy these online marketplace companies follow in the next few months will determine whether Amazon gets to be the leader in 2017.
A number of Xooglers are employing lessons and practices learnt during their stint at Google to branch out into innovative ventures.
A glance back at some of the important ups and down Indian Inc faced in 2018.
CCI investigation into predatory pricing likely
In spite of the mega IPO of Alibaba, Flipkart-Myntra is not thinking of a public offering at this point
'Shape up or ship out' message has been loud and clear across the new-age companies in the stressed market conditions
The combined networth of India's 100 wealthiest is $381 billion (nearly Rs 25.5 lakh crore), a rise of 10 per cent from $ 345 billion in 2015
For the four new players, the spike in wealth is 126 per cent.
None of the top five start-ups launched by IITians - Flipkart, Zomato, Ola Cabs, Housing.com and Inmobi - were incubated at IITs
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Traders were up in arms, fearing huge job loss if Walmart was to enter.
Bengaluru dominates Karnataka's economy and its infrastructure mess compounds the problems, with policies lagging need and expectations.
Estimates by retail consultancy Technopak suggest that direct subsidy to consumers because of e-commerce this year would be over Rs 12,000 crore.
E-commerce is awash in money, raising concerns about whether this is just another unsustainable internet trend headed for a bust.
Vikramank Singh looks back at the year gone by!
'For how long can investors fund loss-making companies?'
From 690,800 sq ft in 2013, the absorption by e-commerce companies in Chennai dropped to 31,150 sq ft last year.
Reports suggest that the police were unable to find any contact of the company's office and had to take a Uber cab to reach the company's training centre in Gurgaon, giving credence to the perception that Uber has grown too much too soon.
Flipkart's current valuation is an estimated $12 billion.
Suveen Sinha finds out what the tribe of modern, internet entrepreneurs who no longer run their first start-ups are up to.
Today, India is one of the fastest-growing eCommerce markets in Asia/Pacific along with China.
Paytm will cross 100 million wallets ahead of its self-determined deadline of 2015-end. It currently has 66 million.
The chief executive of the e-commerce giant is making his second visit to India -- the first since Amazon entered this market.
With the festive season underway, retailers in the online and the offline world need to prepare well to offer the best deals to consumers and earn trust.
'There was a time when I went without salary for about six months,' says Amod Malviya, an alumnus of IIT Kharagpur and currently CTO, Flipkart.
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