Contributors to Team Indus project will have names etched on an object going to space.
On Tuesday, while several consumers took to social media to share their grievances about the Snapdeal site crash, many others said they visited the website to either compare prices or for window shopping.
With the festive season approaching, e-tailers are going all out to woo consumers.
The total wealth of India's top five billionaires, which stands at a whopping $83.7 billion, is more than the cost of 1,230 Mars Orbiter 'Mangalyaan' Missions and is more than 18 times the cost of hosting the 2016 Rio Olympics
Investing in start-ups can be highly rewarding, but direct investing is not meant for everyone. For the majority of wealthy investors, taking the private-equity route could still be the better option.
Flipkart's appointment of Kalyan Krishnamurthy as CEO and Ola's choice of PepsiCo's Vishal Kaul for COO speaks to the growing trend of bringing in experienced professionals to run business. Karan Choudhury reports.
CCI investigation into predatory pricing likely
For now Walmart has said it remains optimistic about India. But that could change without prior notice, says Nivedita Mookerji.
No financial details were disclosed.
Every competitor is eyeing the top slot that Flipkart holds.
Modi has set a target of generating 100 Gw of solar power by 2022.
Suveen Sinha finds out what the tribe of modern, internet entrepreneurs who no longer run their first start-ups are up to.
A number of Xooglers are employing lessons and practices learnt during their stint at Google to branch out into innovative ventures.
It took Flipkart a little over 24 hours to complete due diligence and come up with a final offer that was $20 million higher than what Snapdeal was ready to forfeit.
While the first half of the year saw India's e-commerce market shrinking, the success of Diwali sales will boost the sector beyond last year's benchmark
20 occasions she captured our attention.
Flipkart claims to have more than 90,000 sellers on its platform.
Myntra CEO Ananth Narayanan, who was earlier against the merger of the two fashion e-tail companies, is learnt to be meeting each Jabong employee one-to-one.
Chinese e-commerce giant planning to enter India this year, will take on global e-retailer
For the four new players, the spike in wealth is 126 per cent.
Vikramank Singh looks back at the year gone by!
This was only four days after many aggrieved buyers chose social networking sites to attack Flipkart's 'Big Billion Day' discount this Monday (October 6), followed by an apology from the company's co-founders, Sachin and Binny Bansal.
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Buyers complain about server errors, allege discounts were 'not real'.
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According to sector officials and watchers, the funding (among the largest so far in the segment) from its existing investors -- Naspers, Accel Partners, Tiger Global and Iconiq Capital -- might be a sign of confidence they have in the company but it's still unsure if it will be enough for Flipkart to turn a corner and become profitable.
None of the top five start-ups launched by IITians - Flipkart, Zomato, Ola Cabs, Housing.com and Inmobi - were incubated at IITs
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
Fewer e-commerce companies hired candidates from B-schools this year.
Flipkart and Snapdeal take a cue from Amazon even as they differ on who is ahead in the race
A glance back at some of the important ups and down Indian Inc faced in 2018.
Its growth has been driven by discounts rather than enticing new customers to its platform
Abhimanyu Mithun's brilliant bowling at death enabled defending champions Karnataka to edge out Bengal by six runs in a thrilling semi-final of the National One Day Championship for the Vijay Hazare Trophy, in Ahmedabad.
Young opener Prithvi Shaw underlined his class with a century against a quality Tamil Nadu attack to lead Mumbai to 314 for seven on the opening day of the Ranji Trophy Group C match in Mumbai.
In India, he has already made investments in both his personal capacity and through DST Global, his venture firm.
'If you allow Walmart to operate in India, our manufacturing will finish completely.' 'What will happen to Narendra D Modi's dream then? There will be no Make in India.'
Few top honchos of India Inc did very well in 2014.
E-commerce is awash in money, raising concerns about whether this is just another unsustainable internet trend headed for a bust.
The chief executive of the e-commerce giant is making his second visit to India -- the first since Amazon entered this market.
A summary of all the Ranji Trophy matches played on Sunday
Ishank Jaggi scored an unbeaten century while Ishan Kishan made 83 to hand Jharkhand the crucial first innings lead over Haryana in a Ranji Trophy match.
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.
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