Flipkart's appointment of Kalyan Krishnamurthy as CEO and Ola's choice of PepsiCo's Vishal Kaul for COO speaks to the growing trend of bringing in experienced professionals to run business. Karan Choudhury reports.
Given the rising levels of pollution, air purifiers have now become a necessity. Manavi Kapur and Veer Arjun Singh check out some of the options in the market.
Theatres are finding innovative new ways to increase footfalls, discovers Vanita Kohli-Khandekar.
IIM-A saw 36 per cent jump in maximum domestic salary in 2018 placements this year.
OnePlus 6 comes to India packed with loads of features.
'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.'
Reskilling and online certification are the biggest earners in the Indian online education market
In spite of the mega IPO of Alibaba, Flipkart-Myntra is not thinking of a public offering at this point
Why should Reliance Digital position itself as an alternative to Chadhaji's store? It simply doesn't make good business sense, says Sudhir Bisht.
K Vaitheeswaran, co-founder of Indiaplaza, one of India's first e-commerce companies, shares the lessons he learnt from its failure.
Employees asked to work from home... cancelled travel plans... curtailed meetings... Caution and precaution dominate Corporate India's response to Covid-19.
'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.
India's tech start-ups are following Silicon Valley's lead and embracing the "fail fast" culture.
GM India said customers will be able to book the Trailblazer on Amazon.in only from October 21-25, at a reservation deposit of Rs 25,000.
'For how long can investors fund loss-making companies?'
Floats discussion paper for stakeholders' feedback with a deadline of January 28.
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.
A combination of bank guarantees, letters of credit, buyer's credit for computer servers have been provided to the two local operational arms by Kotak Mahindra Bank and Deutsche Bank.
E-commerce model appears to be the best bet available to US retail giants at this point to tap the Indian market.
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.
Instead of announcing new schemes, focus will be on those already announced and key sectors.
By roping the Bollywood star, the professional networking platform looks for wider appeal and a mass audience.
'Facebook and Google no longer need to have infantry regiments and cavalry like the East India Company because they are inside everyone's phones listening to our conversations.'
What we want from spectrum allocation is access to broadband networks at prices that will result in productivity gains.
Nine companies incubating at StartupVillage have made it to the second round of Nasscoms flagship programme to support 10,000 technology startups across India.
Start-ups that did not have a business model and, hence, could not grow or attract new funding, are shutting shop.
Sony's estimated profit on IPL over 10 years is 2,500 crore. Why didn't it fight tooth & nail to keep the rights?
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.
Microsoft founder Bill Gates with an estimated fortune of $78 billion heads the list
'Shape up or ship out' message has been loud and clear across the new-age companies in the stressed market conditions
Surat-based company in talks with banks, insurance cos, manufacturing cos etc for their iris scanner machine.
Shuma Raha finds out how writers are using social media to produce bestsellers.
After six years in the business, the scorecard of Bengaluru-based QwikCilver is impressive, with a 90 per cent market share.
Flipkart claims to have more than 90,000 sellers on its platform.
'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.'
If Aldo, Charles & Keith, Hush Puppies, Steve Madden can do it, why can't Woods?
It entered India in 2006, with the aim of tapping the promising consumer market.
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.
The handset delivers on build quality, battery, design, ergonomics and a pretty decent display. The camera performance is not exactly ground breaking, but the price tag covers up for that slight blip, says Himanshu Juneja
He was number three in 1999 when the company was founded.
