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Amazon Tatkal & Flipkart Spotlist – Instant Selling services launched by ecommerce rivals
“The year 2016 will be a defining year for ecommerce in India with regards to SMEs. We foresee thousands of them getting...
Indian Government launches Ecommerce portal for MSMEs
MSMEs (Micro, small and medium enterprises) now have another ray of hope in the form of www.msmeshopping.com, an ecommer...
Make in India, Sell worldwide with e-commerce!
What’s common between India’s most recent political campaign, hundreds of Indian artisans and LimeRoad? Of course, the w...
Offline, online retailers in the international scene joining hands – Alibaba planning to buy Intime
Alibaba’s recent move shows that hybrid retail is the sensible thing to do. The company has been on a shopping spree add...
Common mistakes while shipping and how to avoid them
Shipping your product to the customer is an oft neglected aspect in the life of an online business owner, sometimes to d...
Flipkart to launch Flipkart Fashion Files, lifestyle content page
Fashion e-commerce and content blogging are like rum and coke – perfect combination and complement each other! The lates...
Aditya Birla’s ‘abof’ joins Rs. 100 crore GMV Club
We recently heard that online fashion etailer, Myntra closed in on the Rs.100 crore mark during its successful ‘End of R...
Black FriDay to Black FriWeek: Indian e-commerce attempts to replicate the popular American sale
Why wait for a US- settled brother or uncle to shop at the discount stores on Black Friday? The sales have now begun to...
Snapdeal diversifies product range; Online Sellers are you listening?
Ecommerce companies are increasingly exploring different avenues that can be transacted online. Snapdeal has been workin...
How the e-commerce industry is adapting to growing number of mobile internet users
The cell phone is now a ‘Sell-phone’Statistics show that as of September 2014, there are 930.20 million cell phone subsc...
Amazon, Flipkart, Snapdeal combined GMV bigger than Top 10 Offline retailers, Morgan Stanley
Exactly last year in February 2015, Morgan Stanley predicted that Indian ecommerce market would reach $102 billion by 20...
Flipkart, Myntra may soon stop offering heavy discounts!
One of the main features of ecommerce that attracted hordes of hesitant Indian consumers to it was the heavy discounts t...
Alibaba confident about 2017 revenue projections & its new ecommerce focuses
Online marketplace Alibaba will soon be joining the Indian online retail industry. It has already acquired its first off...
FlipKart Vs Amazon – Of Billion Dollar PR And A Look At Real Data
Ecommerce giant FlipKart announced a $1Bn funding round on Tuesday. This is known to be the biggest investment in the In...
Amazon revival hopes high, Karnataka Tax officer replaced
A few months back, Amazon had run into tax troubles in Karnataka, when violation of FDI laws and the issue of VAT and Sa...
Group of crooks hack into marketplaces, steal vouchers worth a crore
The Delhi police has arrested four youth on the charges of hacking leading shopping sites including Amazon and Flipkart....
Amazon Launches ‘Amazon Seller App’ in India!
“Over time, many of our sellers will only have a mobile phone to do business. So we want to go mobile only, not mobile f...
Is valuation the same as potential in the ecommerce industry?
No pain, no gain: Why the biggest investors are joining the e-commerce bandwagonIn the world of finance, the scene looks...
Demonetisation leads to discounts, which leads to increased sales for online luxury industry
ASSOCHAM had predicted in a study that the online luxury market in India would go through the roof by 2020. Thanks to th...
Zivame aims for profitability by 2018-19 through omnichannel strategy
The online lingerie specialist Zivame, is all set to make profits by the first quarter of the fiscal year 2018-19. The o...
Flipkart aims to capture 2% of scooter market by year-end
A recent study by the Society of Indian Automobile manufacturers (Siam) reported that a whopping 13.62 million two-wheel...
Raid on Flipkart’s UP warehouse, penalty imposed
Flipkart: what is troubling you now?Indian e-commerce has seen few ups more downs this year – fuzzy FDI laws, blurry VAT...
Directors of an ecommerce portal arrested in cheating case
Two directors of a Delhi-based ecommerce portal have been arrested for allegedly cheating a sales professional from of R...
eBay ties up with SMEcorner to facilitate loans for online sellers
While on one side, we hear about eBay sellers facing difficulties on the getting their grievances resolved, on the other...
Indian online retail displayed mere 12% growth in 2016 compared to previous year’s 180%: Report
Turns out 2016 was the speed breaker year for Indian online retail, stated a Redseer report on the growth of Indian ecom...
Virtual Reality- Tool to transform ecommerce industry
Technology has often oiled the wheels of ecommerce, whenever it was stuck. Right from helping on-demand delivery start-u...
Budget 2017: Impact on Indian ecommerce & sellers
On February 1 2017, Finance Minister Arun Jaitley announced the Union Budget 2017. Many are calling it a game-changing b...
Ecommerce covered under Consumer Protection Act
E-commerce is covered under the Consumer Protection Act (CPA), and the central government is not facing any loss in indi...
Snapdeal aims to take its daily transactions from under 2mn to 20mn by 2020
Moving away from the usual practice of focussing on GMV as a growth parameter, e-commerce major Snapdeal is now aiming t...
The Era of F-Commerce: Selling on Facebook
So it’s a normal day at work. After sending one email ensuring my boss is marked, I log onto Facebook! Hmm, so someone w...
The PAN card challenge: can ecommerce face up to it?
If giving their credit or debit card details to online retailers were not enough, customers now have another ecommerce r...
Amazon punches out Flipkart tactically; can Chinese sellers rescue the Indian etailer?
Amazon is hell bent on overtaking its Indian competitors, particularly Flipkart. The Jeff Bezos-founded company is way a...
Walmart India extends its online wholesale platform to Rajahmundry, AP
Walmart has extended its B2B ecommerce platform, www.bestprice.in to Rajahmundry, Andhra Pradesh. Members of this store...
India Post steadily strengthening ecommerce industry
Increasing numbers of rural and suburban shoppers are warming up to shopping online. As online sales multiply from these...
Counterfeit & Competition – Offline retailers blame e-commerce for both
‘I would never buy my favourite perfume from the luxury brand Chanel on an online marketplace,’ says Mrs. Cheryl Dias, a...
Flipkart acquires Adiquity, mobile advertising firm with features to help sellers target customers better
Last month, we heard about a fresh round of funding in the pipeline for Flipkart. While we could be sure that expansion...
Major ecommerce players use ‘Honeypots’ to nail online hackers
Etailers have to deal with frauds of all kinds. From sellers listing fake products, ex-employees robbing delivery staff...
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[Customer Speak] 8 Things I Would NOT Buy Online
Don’t you sometimes wonder what customers are thinking when they are browsing for things online? We wonder too, so we th...
Flipkart app hits 50mn on GooglePlay store
Ecommerce leader Flipkart has just taken a giant leap forward by announcing that it has clocked up 50 million app instal...
RBI to come out with guidelines for e-commerce
The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) will soon issue guidelines on electronic commerce (e-commerce) transactions, a senior of...
Snapdeal Ties-Up with IndiVillage to Employ Rural India
Indians have accepted the eCommerce culture and are making it a part of their daily lives. But to progress continuously,...
Online-Offline hybrid model to be next big disruptor in retail
Physical store owners are expressing their dissent towards online sellers in different ways. In a recent retail gatherin...
eCommerce Marketing: A Good Recipe Requires a Balanced Mix of Ingredients
Everyone knows, how much a balanced mix of right ingredients is essential to prepare a delicious recipe. A slight error...
Flipkart ties up with more logistics partners to service more areas
Flipkart is leaving no stone unturned to get both sellers and consumers on its side. According to an email sent to selle...
Ecommerce, a safe passage for illegal designer drugs?
Have you seen the latest TVC of Noida based Indian ecommerce company IndiaMart? In the ad, we see celebrated Indian acto...
It’s a TAX-ing business: Amazon faces tax department backlash
Just a couple of days back with the reinstatement of a new e-commerce friendly Tax officer, Amazon India had believed it...
Flipkart reaps 400% increase in revenue during Home Shopping Days sale
Online Marketplace leader, Flipkart which conducted the Home Shopping Days sale on the 21st and 22nd Of February has rep...
Popularity of Chinese goods high online; Flipkart attempts to revive private label program
Online sellers have been finding much merit in trading in Chinese goods. While this has been a trend that existed much b...
Himachal Pradesh govt. releases entry tax circular; How much will it charge in Online Retail?
With the delay in GST, entry tax still prevails and is adding to the taxation burden. Online marketplaces feel entry tax...
