Even at early stage, start-ups are raising more money faster owing to the rise of a lot of specialised early-stage VCs and emergence of seed-stage programmes.
The company declined to comment on the banks or NBFCs that would be providing the loans.
Chinese tech giant Lenovo unveiled its new 'layered' smartphone - Vibe X2 - priced at Rs 19,999 in India.
US retail major is in talks with Flipkart, Snapdeal, ShopClues and Grofers for partnership.
Indian retail market would have a size of $1 trillion by 2020, said India director for e-commerce and local classified, Nitin Bawankule, on Thursday.
Marquee recruiters made premium offers, with consulting leading the pack by making 25.04% of the offers, followed by IT/ITeS (18.59%), e-commerce (10.55%) and BFSI (10.13%).
While festive season spends by consumers did contribute to the uptick seen in Q3, experts said greater aggression displayed by retailers to corner a larger share of the shopper's wallet also worked.
Some other sites that allow repayment over longer tenures also waive off interest cost but that might be built into the product price.
The delivery channel of India Post is being utilised primarily for small towns and cities.
The agreement means consumers will enjoy more choices and varied price points.
The strategy of selling the phone will remain the same.
Sectors which attracted big-ticket investments were real estate, energy, banking and start-ups
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Total exit value breached the $10 billion mark for the first time to touch $10.3 billion this calendar, from $9.4 billion in 2015
Ola was supposed to expand to the Netherlands, Kenya, Dubai, Israel, and Brazil.
This issue assumes greater importance if you are a managed marketplace in the hypercompetitive online world.
Nets three more foreign brands for exclusive retailing, but the cost of the business model may be high, say experts.
Since its launch in September, Ayushman Bharat has issued 20 million cards and has set an ambitious target to hit another 30 million within the next three months.
According to CAIT, e-commerce policy should take within its ambit not only foreign players but also domestic ones.
Private equity firms invested about USD 3.7 billion across 133 deals during the first quarter of 2018 as compared to USD 7.3 billion by way of 200 transactions a year ago.
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The withdrawal of offer letters is an indication that the company might have overestimated its future business after giving offer letters.
The sale of Nature's Basket, Godrej's chain of food stores in west India, is the second exit by a big group in a year in the category
A 2014 study had ranked IITs as fourth among the top 50 universities globally, whose graduates were entrepreneurial.
And it costs less than Rs 11,000!
Indian non-store market set to touch Rs 57,500 crore by the end of the year.
In December last year, Amazon invested over Rs 1,700 crore into its payments and wholesale business units in India, while in October it had infused over Rs 4,400 crore (more than USD 600 million) in its various units in India, including marketplace and food retail. Bezos last visited India in 2014 when he presented Amazon's Indian unit with a giant cheque for USD 2 billion. Since then, Amazon has pledged a further USD 3.5 billion to expand in the country and the USD 1 billion investment announced on Wednesday would take the total committed investment to USD 6.5 billion.
'The good news is the technology industry is creating a space for you somewhere else.'
Flipkart's Sachin and Binny Bansal may have become the poster boys of the Indian e-commerce industry, but there are a host of others who are emerging from the shadows.
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.
Prominent e-commerce marketplace players include Amazon.in, Flipkart, Snapdeal, Paytm, Shopclues and Jabong
The government guidelines say online marketplaces must not influence the sale price of goods and services but experts say e-commerce majors categorise discounts under marketing expenses.
The lockdown that crippled the entire logistics, delivery and supply chain network to near zero, was enough to deal a body blow to India's fastest growing unicorn whose very business model saw a severe disruption, like several other firms and sectors.
he 4G version of the device would compete with the likes of Lenovo's A6000.
'Google and Facebook need to be tamed, their garb of 'Investing in India's future' need to be pulled off,' observes Vibhu Arya.
The company has tied up with five distributors this year.
These workers have been asked to undergo a 30-day performance improvement plan.
Ecommerce firms will have it tough as govt turns down FDI proposal.
However, in recent times, the clout that trader bodies such as CAIT and other organisations like Swadeshi Jagran Manch and Laghu Udyog Bharati has is steadily increasing. Earlier this year, trader bodies were able to convince the government not to extend the deadline for implementation of the new norms in FDI policy on e-commerce.
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