The rise of the mall in India, at a time when many in the United States are becoming debt-ridden white elephants.
Eyeing $9 billion business opportunity in booming e-commerce business, India Post, which has the biggest network and serves the last mile, is boosting its infrastructure for real-time tracking of parcels through satellites using a new technology.
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"We are delighted to welcome Google as a strategic investor in Jio Platforms. We have signed a binding partnership and an investment agreement under which Google will invest Rs 33,737 crores for a 7.7 per cent stake in Jio Platforms," Mukesh Ambani said at the company's annual general meeting.
The Walmart chief stated that the values of the two companies were "very much aligned"
Though Kishore Biyani is selling stakes in group companies to pay off debt, a significant share price crash since January this year is making his task difficult.
The move comes at a time when Snapdeal is aggressively looking at optimising costs amid intense battle with Flipkart and Amazon.
According to sources, employees from marketing, ad-tech, category, digital marketing, engineering team, catalogues, have all been asked to leave.
Apple's online launch is a symbol of success for FDI in single-brand retail, though there's no indication of how much the Silicon Valley major would invest in the country.
For last two months, much of the discussion, a large part of due diligence, agreement negotiations, etc, have happened remotely.
The big boys of India's traditional retail have finally come together to fight the onslaught of their online counterparts.
'There is pent-up demand for cricket after last year when no tournaments were played on Indian soil due to the pandemic.'
First phase of online video's growth is over. Netflix, Amazon developing new content ecosystem.
It is not clear as to whether we are in a bubble in technology stocks. What is clear, however, is that there is no reason why this potential bubble will pop anytime soon, notes Akash Prakash.
From Rs 191 billion in 2019, the world's largest film producing industry now stands at Rs 72 billion thanks to the pandemic.
Indian IT giants are outstanding companies with great management teams, but they have been held hostage by their past success.
Facebook co-founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg on Tuesday said India is a very special and important country with a remarkable entrepreneurship culture, as he sought to push deeper the just-launched payments services that allow users to make payments over WhatsApp. Last month, Facebook-owned WhatsApp received approval from the National Payments Corporation of India (NPCI) for rolling out its payments services in India. In 2018, WhatsApp started testing its UPI-based payments services in India -- a global first -- with about a million users.
Alibaba, the world's biggest e-commerce firm by transaction value, supports small businesses on its platforms.
As per market estimates, the new round would value the city-based firm at about $ 4-5 billion.
While players in the financial ecosystem are opening up to the idea of receivables funding for the sector, this market needs a regulator, which a Parliament panel feels only RBI can provide.
Snapdeal delivers to the Dharavi centre, where buyers pick up their orders.
When he is not running Amazon, he buys museums to live in, donates mountains, and works on space travel.
The FDI floodgates have opened mega opportunities for not only brick-and-mortar retailers, but for their virtual peers as well.
Higher advertising spends to grab customer eyeballs take a toll on startups across segments
The identity of the new investor could not be ascertained.
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.
That's because India does not have a serious venture capital industry with an appetite for risk, observes T N Ninan.
Flipkart has not been able to process with its plans of getting into the grocery vertical and is stuck on running pilots in select cities.
'It is the biggest release for me.'
'The real test whether the movie has worked or not is when the people remember it five years later. Just like wine and relationships, the same is true for movies.'
After owning the champion Indian Premier League franchise Kolkata Knight Riders, the Bollywood superstar has now put his money in the Caribbean Premier League, a potential money-spinner.
'The pressure on relative performance and the feeling of being left out among many investors may also account for the belief among many that this has to be a technology stock bubble.' 'The feeling of a bubble is also reinforced by the extreme performance gap between growth and value investing.' 'While at first glance, one can only stand back awestruck by the wealth creation delivered by technology stocks globally. It does not seem at all like the internet bubble of 1999-2000, says Akash Prakash.
Ratan Tata has made investments in his personal capacity in more than 15 start-ups over the last 20 months.
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.
In India, it is fighting a pitched battle against Ola.
As India's online population crosses 450 million, e-commerce ventures are trying to grab a pie of online sales estimated to hit $48 billion by 2020.
Around half the value of the mark-downs is due to the Japanese currency's appreciation against other currencies.
Surprisingly, Jeff Bezos is the new entrant to the list and ends up holding the first position.
In the past few days, many companies, including fashion e-tailer Nykaa, food delivery platform Zomato, logistics and delivery firm Delhivery, insurance discovery platform PolicyBazaar, eyewear retail chain Lenskart, and edtech and online tutoring firm Byju's, have openly spoken about their IPO plans.
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.
