With 2016 officially behind us, let's look forward and speculate about the events, people and issues that will shape 2017.
Tata Group's CLiQ is the latest to join the e-commerce club, to compete with the likes of Amazon, Flipkart and Snapdeal.
The Dow has never lost more than 800 points in a day.
Ebay will cut around 2,400 jobs this quarter in a bid to improve business efficiencies.
How much do you know Russian billionaire Yuri Milner, who has invested $ 100 million in a project to find extra-terrestrial life?
Radio taxi service provider Meru Cabs is planning to put in place the next level of driver verification, one liked to biometric identification tool Aadhaar.
The people on the front lines of fighting the Ebola epidemic are Time Magazine's Person of the Year.
Start-ups that did not have a business model and, hence, could not grow or attract new funding, are shutting shop.
These include Microsoft's Satya Nadella, Mastercard CEO Ajay Banga, and Harman International Chairman Dinesh Paliwal.
The final guidelines should be there in 3-4 months.
'He still has to deal with party norms and traditions and has been careful to follow the order of seniority,' points out Claude Arpi.
Steve Case's book is filled with insightful scenes that describe how the modern online industry was put together, notes Ajit Balakrishnan.
While investment activity jumped three to four times this year over last year for e-commerce, it has shown marginal growth (five per cent) in the case of consumer and retail
Its growth has been driven by discounts rather than enticing new customers to its platform
The sector will start making operating profits by 2020.
It entered India in 2006, with the aim of tapping the promising consumer market.
In the Forbes rich list Mukesh Ambani is ranked 39th.
Business chambers now inviting start-ups for membership.
ShopClues does 1.5 million transactions a month and claims to have 40 million monthly visitors.
Spends by e-commerce players have now touched Rs 1,000 crore.
'Difficult issues should not be brushed under the carpet, but should be raised upfront, particularly by India. While engagement and dialogue are always welcome and desirable, there should be some tangible results. Mere signing of agreements, MoUs, joint declarations are not enough.'
The verdict could impact a range of life choices of Indians, including food habits and sexual orientation.
There is uncertainty in most investors' minds as to whether China is transitioning to a new growth model or simply collapsing.
With a middle class still so small and no apparent leaps in productivity on the farm or in manufacturing on the horizon, India faces its own age of diminished expectations.
A glance back at some of the important ups and down Indian Inc faced in 2018.
Despite having the third-largest internet user base in the world, India does not feature in the top ten e-commerce markets
Morgan Stanley writing down its investment in the e-commerce leader by 27 per cent does not augur well for the sector.
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.
The Internet is too important to let a few private telecom players decide what the rules will be for consumers, says Rajeev Chandrasekhar, independent member of Parliament who was one of the key petitioners seeking the scrapping of Section 66A of the Information Technology Act.
As football fans arrive to watch Euro 2016, France's trade unions have undertaken a series of strikes to provoke a make-or-break situation. Claude Arpi encounters both Gallic beauty and ugliness in the country of his birth.
Google Inc opened its first two data centres in Asia on Wednesday to cater to the world's fastest growing consumer technology markets, but the company has no plans to open one in China or India.
The 30-share Sensex lost 12 points to end at 29,559 and the 50-share Nifty climbed 4 points to close at 8,914.
'I'm a rebel. I'm not easy.' 'Once a top actor wanted me to sing a song and a top music company was involved. They wanted changes in the song. I told them not to take pangas with me.'
India has made a good beginning in the area of satellite navigation but still there is a long way to go.
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The 30-share Sensex lost 22 points to close at 27,090 and the 50-share Nifty gained 7 points to end at 8,121.
Be extra careful while using credit cards because there is a risk of misuse
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Buyers complain about server errors, allege discounts were 'not real'.
CLP saw early that the pollution caused by China's rush for industrial growth would lead inevitably to demands for cleaner electricity.
Flipkart's current valuation is an estimated $12 billion.
Sarvesh Agrawal tells Shobha Warrier about how he built a start-up "of the interns, by the interns and for the interns."
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