Amazon India Country Head Amit Agarwal refers to all talk of mergers as 'noise'. 'All this is a distraction, when the focus should be on the customer,' he says.
Flipkart and Snapdeal take a cue from Amazon even as they differ on who is ahead in the race
Amazon's fulfilment centres, which store products of hundreds of vendors selling on the American online major's platform, are being cited by Karnataka state government authorities as a primary concern in an ongoing tax dispute.
With the festive season approaching, e-tailers are going all out to woo consumers.
The threat may be a decade away, but it has brick-and-mortar sellers rethinking their strategies and banking on the govt to regulate online companies.
Netflix plans local studio in India push. Move comes as rival Amazon Prime Video lines up as many as 18 original shows for India.
Last year, traffic jumped 15 times on Snapdeal's 'Big Sale Day' on Oct 6, when it had clocked Rs 1 crore a minute of sales over 10 hours.
'While high-level interventions may help smoothen inter-State relationships, they cannot fundamentally change the alchemy of such relationships, which are firmly rooted in mutual benefits and mutual interests,' points out Ambassador M K Bhadrakumar.
Premji is ranked 13th on Forbes' first ever list of '100 Richest People In Tech', followed by Nadar on the 14th spot.
Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates tops list of the world's top 25 richest self-made billionaires.
Sources indicated defence and national security initiatives.
'They are geopolitical, commercial, educational, cultural and about innovation.' 'Also, they are about a common value system.'
Rajiv Chandrasekaran wrote Imperial Life in the Emerald City: Inside Baghdad's Green Zone, based on his days as the Washington Post's correspondent in Baghdad. It was made into a movie, starring Matt Damon.
Indian names that figure on the list, but lower down the pecking order include Tatat (101). Airtel (rank: 252), Infosys (287), Life Insurance Corporation of India (292), State Bank of India (334), HCL (390), Indian Oil (427), Reliance (445) and Larsen & Toubro (464).
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.
Policy constraints may prevent many of the global retail giants from reaching their full potential.There are too many restrictions right now in the sector and policy makers lack clarity.
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Persistence is the name of the game, says Vineet Bajpai.
In about a year, top e-commerce companies are expected to raise as much funds as the three sector leaders raised in about five years.
Amazon committed a fresh investment of $3 billion, in addition to the $2 billion it announced in 2014.
'The fact that Kalanick and others managed to build such great companies, in spite of their apparent foibles, should give us hope,' says Vikram Johri.
The people on the front lines of fighting the Ebola epidemic are Time Magazine's Person of the Year.
In its first acquisition in India, the American online retail giant is planning to buy out the fashion portal
These include Microsoft's Satya Nadella, Mastercard CEO Ajay Banga, and Harman International Chairman Dinesh Paliwal.
The 24-hour delivery offer applies only to select postal codes and is not available across the country.
Online biggies and global retail giants are working on being omnipresent in both the virtual and the real world to see what helps them get the numbers, says Karan Choudhury.
In spite of the mega IPO of Alibaba, Flipkart-Myntra is not thinking of a public offering at this point
If successful, this would increase capacity to hurl small satellites into space, meeting both local demand and serving global customers.
Alnoor Peermohamed & Raghu Krishnan find out why the new CEO is said to be the perfect man for turning around Flipkart's fortunes.
"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.
The strategy these online marketplace companies follow in the next few months will determine whether Amazon gets to be the leader in 2017.
While investment activity jumped three to four times this year over last year for e-commerce, it has shown marginal growth (five per cent) in the case of consumer and retail
Here's a pick of what Warrenn Buffett had to say over the weekend, and his annual 'Woodstock for Capitalists'.
The world seems to have caught severe pneumonia, or worse, as China had flu.
India stands at an embarrassingly low 130 among 190 countries in the World Bank's Ease of Doing Business rankings. But in our worry over it are we forgetting the big picture -- to make India an attractive investment destination -- wonders Avirup Bose.
Amazon's investors are counting on its international business and expansion to help drive growth and support its $165 billion market value, one of the highest among US firms.
There are few firms that are applauded for managing a healthy top line growth along with an impressive brand image that inspires most companies.
Now that Jeremy has decided to try his hand at something new, we asked Top Gear's Top Fan Anywhere, Raja Sen, to give Mr C some advice.
Apple CEO landed in Kanpur for IPL match as jet to Vizag was late; he also got to see Lucknow
Its growth has been driven by discounts rather than enticing new customers to its platform
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