With aggressive brand-building initiatives, the companies' advertising budgets ahead of Diwali is understood to have seen a 15% spike
With the festive season approaching, e-tailers are going all out to woo consumers.
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.
The BJP is methodically turning India into the world's laughing stock, one brainless statement after another.
India's tech start-ups are following Silicon Valley's lead and embracing the "fail fast" culture.
50-odd biz leaders are part of Modi's entourage for the 3-nation tour
Arora was hired in July to run a newly created unit called SoftBank Internet and Media Inc.
Arnab Dutta traces how Bira 91 is already among the top two in the premium segment in all the cities that it is present in today and how it is giving larger brands Kingfisher and Budweiser a run for their market share.
Participants are eyeing the Bihar elections.
Indian entrepreneurs increasingly looking to sell their products in US
E-commerce pilot for wholesale begins from July in Hyderbad and Lucknow
'The boycott has not achieved success. Sales figures for Chinese products on the top three Indian online retailers in the first week of October hit a new record. Amazingly, the Chinese mobile phone company Xiaomi sold half a million phones in just three days on the Flipkart, Amazon India, Snapdeal and Tata CLiQ platforms.'
It is hard enough to make a profit in e-commerce without having to deal with excessive paperwork, legal fees and the constant threat of harassment by revenue officials.
'Sadhavi Khosla was never formally part of the BJP IT cell.' 'Modi handles his own Twitter account.' 'On that handle, he follows many people to get a feel of the going ons on social media.'
Three years after launching Big Bazaar Direct, Future group CEO Kishore Biyani's enthusiasm for online ventures has been tempered by growth concerns
Online shopping is the new buzzword amongst masses.
The company, which recently hit the run rate of $1 billion in gross merchandise value ahead of the target date, is the largest mobile phone retailer in the country, counting online and offline stores, estimates show.
Shopkeepers are losing buyers in droves to e-tailers for everything from fashion to smartphones, and are struggling to find solutions.
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.
These stocks are overvalued and, therefore, one should not adopt a buy and hold strategy.
Ma is also exploring strategic play in one of the largest media houses in India.
DLF has launched a mega discount sale of its properties.
It should cover mandatory expenses, insurance premiums and loan installments for six months to a year.
Movies like Jungle Book, Conjuring 2 helped Hollywood capture its biggest share of the Indian box office this year. Can Bollywood keep up? Urvi Malvania reports.
The RBI has created a stunted business model by which payment banks are supposed to shoulder the noble objective of financial inclusion without being able to make much money.
The industry is looking at a promising 2016, though experts and even the investors anticipate correction on the valuation side
Access to capital for sub-standard companies is on the decline
When is the last time our government recognised a twenty something entrepreneur for introducing a break-out innovation?
Recently, he had surprised many by talking of net neutrality
Instead of announcing new schemes, focus will be on those already announced and key sectors.
Amit Agarwal tells Suveen Sinha about how he implements an American entrepreneur's vision in a very Indian way.
Start-ups in India with high valuations are witnessing a fund crunch and drop in valuations as investors tighten their belts and look at businesses that are sound.
OlaCabs' hyper-growth and an ambitious plan to expand to 100 cities by the end of 2015 are perhaps what attracted Japan's richest man, Masayoshi Son, chairman of telecom and media group SoftBank Corp, to announce an investment of $210 million (around Rs 1,260 crore) in the company.
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.
India Inc was, perhaps, watching out for a repeat of the dot-com bubble burst of the early 2000s.
The company did not disclose its new holding pattern.
'If price was the driver in 1st year, it was convenience in the 2nd.'
Recent easing of restrictions does not address the pain in the sector.
Because from June 1, 2015, you will have to fork out 14 per cent service tax instead of 12.36 per cent
N Sundaresha Subramanian digs deeper into what Catalyst, an Indo-US project, brings to the payments ecosystem.
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