The $12 billion plus rising Indian e-commerce business market is witnessing a rush of hiring and may need one lakh people over the next six months, industry experts have said.
By buying The Washington Post in his personal capacity, the Amazon founder and internet pioneer may just be looking to save an American institution.
E-commerce model appears to be the best bet available to US retail giants at this point to tap the Indian market.
Quikr founder & CEO Pranay Chulet tells Raghu Krishnan and Bibhu Ranjan Mishra why money has never been an issue for Quikr and that someday he will make a romantic comedy.
Cos ask US treasury to discuss data localisation norms with Indian officials at all platforms the two countries would meet, including G-20, US-India Strategic Dialogue, and IMF Annual Meet.
Sony's estimated profit on IPL over 10 years is 2,500 crore. Why didn't it fight tooth & nail to keep the rights?
By roping the Bollywood star, the professional networking platform looks for wider appeal and a mass audience.
Instead of announcing new schemes, focus will be on those already announced and key sectors.
After six years in the business, the scorecard of Bengaluru-based QwikCilver is impressive, with a 90 per cent market share.
Suriya Prabha trains students from government schools in rural Tamil Nadu to code and use Artificial Intelligence to solve problems.
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.
'The industry growth in 2016< came from the new digital technology segment which grew at over 20%.' 'The challenge for the industry is that the legacy business makes up almost 80% of revenue.' 'Hence the urgency to transform into digital business.'
Jaipur-based start-up Logic Roots aims to teach children math skills through board games.
Theatres are finding innovative new ways to increase footfalls, discovers Vanita Kohli-Khandekar.
Nine companies incubating at StartupVillage have made it to the second round of Nasscoms flagship programme to support 10,000 technology startups across India.
If Aldo, Charles & Keith, Hush Puppies, Steve Madden can do it, why can't Woods?
Microsoft founder Bill Gates with an estimated fortune of $78 billion heads the list
80% of incremental enterprise investment to be in digital technologies by 2020.
'You have to hand it to Mukesh for sheer daring.' 'Who else in India would have sunk a stupendous $30 billion in a business that was yet to get a single customer?' 'With that, the older of the Ambani siblings has shown that he is in a class of his own,' says T N Ninan.
K Vaitheeswaran, co-founder of Indiaplaza, one of India's first e-commerce companies, shares the lessons he learnt from its failure.
Floats discussion paper for stakeholders' feedback with a deadline of January 28.
Recent easing of restrictions does not address the pain in the sector.
OnePlus 6 comes to India packed with loads of features.
Why should Reliance Digital position itself as an alternative to Chadhaji's store? It simply doesn't make good business sense, says Sudhir Bisht.
Surat-based company in talks with banks, insurance cos, manufacturing cos etc for their iris scanner machine.
'Shape up or ship out' message has been loud and clear across the new-age companies in the stressed market conditions
In the Silicon Valley of India, one can use the cryptocurrency to pay for food, buy bus tickets, order stuff online, and even get a haircut.
Shuma Raha finds out how writers are using social media to produce bestsellers.
"It is a reflection of the bipartisan support in the US to the relationship with India. It is also a reflection of the value people attach to this relationship," Singh said.
He was number three in 1999 when the company was founded.
Ecotrail Personal Care, a start-up by sisters Mauli and Grishma Teli, is the only company in India that makes halal cosmetics
'There is a law that prevents the government from diluting its equity in the PSBs below 50 per cent.' 'That law has to be amended and given the parliamentary arithmetic of the political parties, it is not as simple to do that.'
Their bootstrapped brand sold 25,000 units on Flipkart in five days during the 2017 festive sale.
Premium valuations and lack of big triggers will weigh on Indian equity markets in the near term, believes Mahesh Nandurkar, India Strategist, CLSA.
Nets three more foreign brands for exclusive retailing, but the cost of the business model may be high, say experts.
The adjustment orders for AY2012, are expected between January and March 2016.
India is witnessing its own tech tsunami, and is poised to become the second largest global startup hub by the end of the decade
India's first true e-commerce marketplace is struggling for its survival and in it lies valuable lessons for pure play aggregators, say experts.
'You worry when serious people, with control of our and our children's future, begin to start obsessing over social media, seeing it as an easy, lazy, fun, low-cost substitute for boring, old-fashioned practices of politics, governance and serious, fact-based debate,' says Shekhar Gupta.
High return rates in the e-commerce space are making a dent in the margins of e-retailers.
