Three years after launching Big Bazaar Direct, Future group CEO Kishore Biyani's enthusiasm for online ventures has been tempered by growth concerns
While players in the financial ecosystem are opening up to the idea of receivables funding for the sector, this market needs a regulator, which a Parliament panel feels only RBI can provide.
In a filing with the US Security and Exchange Commission on Friday, Walmart said it would allow the initial public offering of Flipkart in four years at a valuation no less than what it invested in the e-commerce firm, if a grouping of minority shareholders asks for it.
If Modi rethinks on pro-biz policies, investors will suffer.
In an email to customers they say 'Big Billion Day' sale today to eclipse all other multi-day festive sales.
It's a post-truth world for multinational brands and businesses too.
Do not trust any incoming phone calls or mails that ask you to install any file or programme, warns Niranjan Upadhye, general manager-fraud risk management, Worldline India.
Private labels remain big business for e-commerce marketplaces. They comprise almost 15 per cent of the total business of such firms.
The cost of luring buyers and sellers to its platform means the new funds won't last long.
With the festive season approaching, e-tailers are going all out to woo consumers.
Nets three more foreign brands for exclusive retailing, but the cost of the business model may be high, say experts.
Surat-based company in talks with banks, insurance cos, manufacturing cos etc for their iris scanner machine.
Ratan Tata has acquired a stake in Chinese handset maker Xiaomi, the first investment by any Indian in the smartphone maker.
Vistara'a launch, the steel plant at Kalinganagar and e-commerce venture are the ones most awaited for
Bill Gates with an estimated wealth of $86 billion topped the list for the fourth year running.
The TicWatch C2 from a Chinese wearable maker Mobvoi is now officially available in India through its website and online retail partner Amazon.
Prominent recruiters were Flipkart, Urban Ladder, AskmeBazaar etc
Estimates by retail consultancy Technopak suggest that direct subsidy to consumers because of e-commerce this year would be over Rs 12,000 crore.
Alibaba Group Holdings Ltd may scrap plans to invest in online marketplace Snapdeal, technology website Recode has reported.
'Young Indians are reading, but the wrong stuff.' 'They are reading and sharing Pappu jokes, Alia Bhatt memes and all the irrelevant material online.' 'My aim is to get them interested in books.'
Eleven years into the league and after a 70 per cent year-on-year growth in merchandise sales over the past three to four years, albeit on a low base, the franchise owners are coming up with innovative games and shows around their teams besides spinning a wider range of merchandise around their star players.
With a surge in users and transactions in two weeks, payment wallets step up cashbacks to get more users online.
With regard to his investment in Ola, Bansal said that on the one hand, the ride-hailing major had emerged as a global force in the mobility space and on the other it continued to build deeper for various needs of a billion Indians through its platform. This is the largest funding by an individual in the app cab.
He was number three in 1999 when the company was founded.
'One good thing that has come out of all this is that it shown people that online ordering is the way forward.'
The target of $500 billion in bilateral trade by 2020 is doable, feels Anand Sharma.
Suveen Sinha finds out what the tribe of modern, internet entrepreneurs who no longer run their first start-ups are up to.
Theatres are finding innovative new ways to increase footfalls, discovers Vanita Kohli-Khandekar.
His presence matters more than the money he brings.
The 2016 upstart, called Jio, dislodged rivals and has emerged as the nation's No. 4 carrier by offering call services free for life and data transmission at dirt cheap rates.
80% of incremental enterprise investment to be in digital technologies by 2020.
It is still "discounts" that e-commerce players have to rely on to bring in customers, though they might claim otherwise.
'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.
'If you're going to tell me what a lame fossil I am, save it,' says Mitali Saran.
E-commerce, Rs 1,000 crore (Rs 10 billion) as an advertising category, is expected to bring at least Rs 200 crore (Rs 2 billion) in ad spending next month, when there would be both Dussehra and Diwali.
Spends by e-commerce players have now touched Rs 1,000 crore.
India's first true e-commerce marketplace is struggling for its survival and in it lies valuable lessons for pure play aggregators, say experts.
Indian e-commerce company raises Rs 600 crore in sixth round of funding.
The hyperlocal logistics company hires delivery boys to work for a diverse set of clients like Amazon, Bigbasket, Swiggy and McDonald's. Apurva Venkat finds out why clients and investors love it.
He said action was akin to holding highway builders responsible for lane violations
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