The threat may be a decade away, but it has brick-and-mortar sellers rethinking their strategies and banking on the govt to regulate online companies.
'Research shows that customers want their loans instantly.' 'So the team asked can we reduce the time for approval from 5 days to 30 seconds?' 'It took the company two years of hard work to tear apart our operations and processes and rebuild them through fresh ideas and by leveraging technology.' 'We reduced the time of loan approval to 3 hours and another year to get it down to 30 seconds,' Sanjiv Bajaj tells Surajeet Das Gupta.
The largest e-commerce entity of China is setting up its first India office -- an indication that it intends to capture a pie of the growing e-commerce market here. Raghavendra Kamath & Alnoor Peermohamed report.
Jaitley's Budget has the potential to change the face of Modi's Bharat
Ajit Mishra, vice president, research, Religare Broking, answers your stockmarket queries.
Discount chain to expand to the east and west, continue with third-party brands.
The interest it has generated among designers who are helping create new styles and uses for the product is likely to leave a lasting imprint on the future of khadi.
Ajit Mishra, vice president, research, Religare Broking, answers your queries.
Retailer bodies to demand govt action against I-Day sales offers, threaten legal action for breach of FDI rules.
'MFs acted as reckless lenders and not as prudent investors.' 'Clearly, how debt funds are being run is a systemic issue,' warns Debashis Basu.
Omkeshwar Singh, head, Rank MF, a mutual fund investment platform, answers your queries.
Sentiment has improved but no progress on GST & ending 'tax terrorism' disappoints.
A number of insurers offer health policies designed especially for senior citizens.
Investors indulged in buying beaten down blue chips at lower and attractive levels.
With the objective of making the country a manufacturing hub for domestic and foreign companies, Prime Minister Narendra Modi is launching the NDA government's "Make in India" campaign today.
But the road map of telecom will be decided by one thing: Whether Jio sticks to its ambitious plan and whether incumbents have enough financial muscle or ability to raise money every year to ensure that Jio does not reach its target, says Surajeet Das Gupta.
Gaurav Garg, Head of Research, CapitalVia answers readers' stock market queries
Dr Manmohan Singh's role in the sordid saga of the Coal Allocation Scam was always Delhi's worst-kept secret; calls for his interrogation will mushroom after he was named by P C Parakh, says T V R Shenoy.
Ajit Mishra, vice president, Research, Religare Broking, answers your queries.
Nikunj Saraf, Vice President Choice Wealth, answers your queries.
Omkeshwar Singh, head, Rank MF, a mutual fund investment platform, answers your queries.
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Benchmark share indices ended lower on profit taking after they touched record highs in the previous session.
In spite of the high number of exits, Reliance group firms of both brothers continue to be darlings of small investors
Ajit Mishra, vice president, research, Religare Broking, answers your queries.
It is hoped that the decision of India's apex court will send a signal to politicians and their cronies from the world of business that the rule of the law does eventually prevail, says Paranjoy Guha Thakurta.
Congress leaders led by Sonia Gandhi marched from the Congress headquarter in New Delhi to the residence of Manmohan Singh to express solidarity with the former prime minister, who has been summoned as accused by a court in a coal scam case.
Nikunj Saraf, Vice President Choice Wealth, answers your queries.
'Younger people have a very strong sense of what is wrong, and what is right, along with the opportunity to call out this kind of behaviour through mechanisms like social media.'
He wants to transform his retail-led enterprise into a consumer goods giant, and reach Rs 1 lakh crore in turnover by 2021, but is that feasible?
Nikunj Saraf, Vice President Choice Wealth, answers your mutual fund queries.
With mobile data getting cheaper, insurers are introducing technologies that eases buying and lodging claims.
Ajit Mishra, vice president, Research, Religare Broking, answers your queries.
With an epic battle of billionaires for supremacy in one of the world's most prolific markets and a pandemic-propelled surge in online shopping in the background, India's nearly trillion-dollar retail market is hoping to touch 85 per cent of the pre-COVID business in the first half of the New Year. In a year when the COVID-19 carnage ripped apart the retail business, circa 2020 will best go down for the unravelling of the war between Jeff Bezos, the world's wealthiest man, and richest Indian Mukesh Ambani for pre-eminence in the booming market that is estimated to reach $1.3 trillion by 2025. It all started with Ambani's Reliance Industries agreeing in August to buy assets of the nation's second-largest retailer for Rs 24,713 crore, just a year after Bezos' Amazon purchased an indirect stake in the indebted Future Retail.
Ajit Mishra, vice president, Research, Religare Broking, answers your queries.
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Crony capitalism will of course generate investment and ensure profit for private capital, but it won't give employment or income to the people. If you can make money by selling coal or speculating in land, why produce electricity, why invest in research and development, why even set up factories, asks Praful Bidwai.
Omkeshwar Singh, head, Rank MF, a mutual fund investment platform, answers your queries.
'They want (the ownership and management of PSU banks) to pass into the hands of a private sector entity.' 'Ownership of these banks will go from the public sector to private sector.'
Today, India is one of the fastest-growing eCommerce markets in Asia/Pacific along with China.
Ajit Mishra, vice president, Research, Religare Broking, answers your queries.
The year 2014-15 could well go as one of long-pending financial sector reforms, expected to have a lasting impact.
