According to sources, employees from marketing, ad-tech, category, digital marketing, engineering team, catalogues, have all been asked to leave.
Contributors to Team Indus project will have names etched on an object going to space.
People who have worked with Mukesh Bansal describe him as approachable and extremely polite but someone who likes to maintain a strict work schedule.
The e-commerce firm said 1.5 million people shopped at its portal on October 6.
Modi has set a target of generating 100 Gw of solar power by 2022.
While the first half of the year saw India's e-commerce market shrinking, the success of Diwali sales will boost the sector beyond last year's benchmark
Flipkart claims to have more than 90,000 sellers on its platform.
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On Tuesday, while several consumers took to social media to share their grievances about the Snapdeal site crash, many others said they visited the website to either compare prices or for window shopping.
With the festive season approaching, e-tailers are going all out to woo consumers.
It took Flipkart a little over 24 hours to complete due diligence and come up with a final offer that was $20 million higher than what Snapdeal was ready to forfeit.
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This was only four days after many aggrieved buyers chose social networking sites to attack Flipkart's 'Big Billion Day' discount this Monday (October 6), followed by an apology from the company's co-founders, Sachin and Binny Bansal.
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In spite of the mega IPO of Alibaba, Flipkart-Myntra is not thinking of a public offering at this point
The company did not disclose its new holding pattern.
Fewer e-commerce companies hired candidates from B-schools this year.
The combined networth of India's 100 wealthiest is $381 billion (nearly Rs 25.5 lakh crore), a rise of 10 per cent from $ 345 billion in 2015
For the four new players, the spike in wealth is 126 per cent.
Every competitor is eyeing the top slot that Flipkart holds.
Its growth has been driven by discounts rather than enticing new customers to its platform
None of the top five start-ups launched by IITians - Flipkart, Zomato, Ola Cabs, Housing.com and Inmobi - were incubated at IITs
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According to sector officials and watchers, the funding (among the largest so far in the segment) from its existing investors -- Naspers, Accel Partners, Tiger Global and Iconiq Capital -- might be a sign of confidence they have in the company but it's still unsure if it will be enough for Flipkart to turn a corner and become profitable.
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The chief executive of the e-commerce giant is making his second visit to India -- the first since Amazon entered this market.
E-commerce is awash in money, raising concerns about whether this is just another unsustainable internet trend headed for a bust.
Few top honchos of India Inc did very well in 2014.
With the festive season underway, retailers in the online and the offline world need to prepare well to offer the best deals to consumers and earn trust.
'There was a time when I went without salary for about six months,' says Amod Malviya, an alumnus of IIT Kharagpur and currently CTO, Flipkart.
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