Amazon has emerged a competition for posterboy of Indian e-commerce Flipkart.
The overall e-commerce opportunity in India and China is comparable, yet it's hard to see any single player in India emerging with Alibaba-like market share.
At that time, co-founders Sachin Bansal and Binny Bansal had made a public announcement at a Bengaluru hotel, about a $1-billion fund raising, largest so far in the Indian e-commerce sector. A day later, Amazon issued a statement that it was investing $2 billion in India.
Share rises further to 73 per cent from 66 per cent last year; Some overseas i-banks seen scaling down operations
Venture capital investments in India's start-ups nearly halved to $1.5 billion in fourth-quarter 2015
The Prime Minister's Office has suggested that EPFO should deploy 15 per cent of its funds as loan for low cost housing saying it would generate a credit flow of Rs 70,000 crore (Rs 700 billion).
Snapdeal had appointed merchant bankers for listing on an American stock exchange
There is discrimination against women in insurance cover. As a flood of insurance companies tap the capital markets with public issues, there is however, hardly any reference to this asymmetry. Subhomoy Bhattacharjee reports
When compared to a one-year insurance, here's why it makes sense to buy a three-year policy
The lower yield is better for property landlords as it indicates an appreciation in the capital value of the property, says Raghavendra Kamath.
PE giants Apollo, Bain Capital and Advent International are keen to pick stake in Viom
Nifty50 surged 145 points to close at 8,468 after hitting an intra-day high of 8,475.
Who invested how much into Flipkart in its latest round of $1 billion funding? Vicky Nanjappa/Rediff.com finds out.
Phonemaker Apple is said to be in talks to take 30,000 sq ft retail space at plush property Maker Maxity, in Bandra Kurla Complex
The reason is believed to be a 19% increase in interest cost.
Suuti's merchant bankers give proposal; deal value could be Rs 2,800 crore
Shopclues, the latest unicorn, was at the bottom of the sector loss pie.
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Despite slowdown, smaller firms attract growth capital.
Financials were the top losers while oil shares also declined amid weak crude oil prices.
India and Russia are involved in talks to sort out the nuclear liability issues before they sign an agreement for setting up Units III and IV of the Kudankulam power plant in Tamil Nadu during Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's annual summit with President Putin in Moscow next week.
Several nuclear power projects held up for the lack of such an insurance pool can now be expected to move forward.
To invest $1 bn in realty sector, mulls new funds; has done exits worth Rs 8,000 crore, says founder
ICICI Bank extended yesterday gains, rising 10% in two trading sessions
In commercial real estate, leasing of office space was higher although the activities were subdued in retail segment.
Anaysts recommend a 'buy' on Icra due to its positive outlook.
Anaysts recommend a 'buy' on Icra due to its positive outlook.
Foreign money has been pouring into India's fast-growing e-commerce sector, with investors ranging from Japan's Softbank Corp to Singapore's Temasek Holdings.
The benchmark Nifty rallied 1,000 points or 17% from 7,000 in 78 trading sessions since May 12, till date to surpass the 8,000 mark.
S.Kumars chief Nitin Kasliwal is charged with non-performance by company shareholders in the recently help AGM of the company.
The company did not disclose its new holding pattern.
Viom Networks is planning to raise arouns Rs 1500 crore (Rs 15 billion) and is likely to list its shares on the London Stock Exchange (LSE), say sources.
Strategy being reworked to launch ETFs, revive Suuti; proceeds may be Rs 24k crore
Bandhan Bank is the first bank to be launched in eastern India post Independence.
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Launches of new homes reduced drastically this year.
While office and mall properties enjoyed revival and saw some big PE deals, residential real estate was hit by double whammy - stagnating prices and demonetisation
Indian property markets are not in the pink of health.
Markets have witnessed a gap down opening mirroring losses in the global equities with US markets taking a hit on worries about the health of Chinese economy.
In a live chat on rediff.com held on Friday, July 11, well-known equity specialist Devang Mehta discussed what effect the Budget will have on the stock markets -- from how NOT to lose money in the markets to which are the safest stocks.
