Suveen Sinha finds out what the tribe of modern, internet entrepreneurs who no longer run their first start-ups are up to.
Key events that rocked India Inc in 2014 and one of them is Vishal Sikka taking over reins at Infosys.
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.
After a group of young hackers beat companies that claim to spend a bomb on cyber security, Karan Choudhury reports on just how easy it is to exploit digital wallets.
The new feature is up and running in Nagpur, Guwahati and Jodhpur
With the launch of Woohoo, QwikCilver now targets two markets in India - the gifting market, worth $7 billion and gift cards as a category.
Apurv Bansal and Prateek Rathore are keen to expand their business
Today pay-later services are available for practically anything under the sun. And these include small purchases like clothes, gadgets, movie tickets, and even food.
India's first true e-commerce marketplace is struggling for its survival and in it lies valuable lessons for pure play aggregators, say experts.
Investors seem to be very keen on investing in startups.
True Blue, a menswear label that Arvind has created with cricketer Sachin Tendulkar, is being extended into an exclusive traditional apparel brand for men called True Blue Handcrafted.
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.
Future, which recently tied up with Amazon in India to sell its fashion and food products exclusively on the American giant's marketplace platform, is looking at a gross merchandise value of about Rs 6,000 crore (Rs 60 billion) in the next three years from the venture.
While the government's demonetisation move is aimed at curbing under-invoicing, the worry was that retailers would de-stock in the short term, impacting sales.
What sold the most this year? Beauty, toys and baby care, sports and fitness, television and large appliances, followed by fashion, says T E Narasimhan.
The 53-year-old entrepreneur has felt the heat of e-commerce.
With over 200 brands and websites as participants this year, the Google Online Shopping Festival is turning bigger.
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
Spends by e-commerce players have now touched Rs 1,000 crore.
Every start-up's dream is to become a unicorn.
Ma and the other co-founders had finalised the name "Alibaba" after much research on its acceptability.
The idea that technology and startups with newer business models will not disrupt traditional businesses has been thrown out the window.
Today, when you step out to find a job, organisations want to know whether you're able to apply that kind of knowledge at work, how much work experience or internship experience you have and your ability to contribute to the growth of the organisation.
Few top honchos of India Inc did very well in 2014.
Here's a list of the favourites of the billionaires.
India's internet subscriber base is 100-150 million, depending on whose estimates you take, and is growing at 20-30% a year.
The people who know Tibet will continue to fight the good fight. Long, hard, less than hopeful, but always peaceful.
Vani Kola left behind a stellar career as an entrepreneur in the US.
