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E-commerce will help empower women: Experts
“e-commerce will provide a big opportunity for job-seekers. This will also help towards empowerment of women,” Khalid Is...
Paytm paying more attention to sellers now?
Has the focus finally shifted to seller more than the customer? In what looks like a hint of that, a prospective seller...
79% of customers happy with online shopping experience
Despite best efforts from big online marketplaces such as Flipkart, Snapdeal and Amazon to lure their respective custome...
Indian Mobile Commerce Market to Hit $19 Billion by 2019: Study
As smartphone sales continue their journey north surging by 51 percent every three months, the mobile commerce (m-commer...
Why so much buzz around Flipkart-Myntra deal?
The founders of neither Myntra nor Flipkart have accepted or talked about the merger talks in progress. They are probabl...
Top 5 Payment gateways in India for Ecommerce Ventures
Professionals associated with the E-commerce industry admit the fact that Payment Gateway is one the most crucial factor...
State Trading Corporation planning ecommerce entry- mid 2016
State Trading Corporation, a public sector enterprise, plans to get into the e-commerce space in the next six months, th...
Snapdeal’s NEW Seller Rating mechanism
Effective from 16th April 2014, sellers on Snapdeal will be rated on new criteria to determine their Seller Rating.What...
Biggies also lean on ecommerce for product launch
Buying grocery items on the internet is an idea that Indians, both sellers and buyers, are warming up to. Although groce...
Flipkart to pay Rs 23.51 crore penalty!
Bad luck seems to have added Flipkart to its top favourites. What started off as a marketing blunder (or was it?) was fo...
Snapdeal takes over Doozton.com, fashion products discovery platform
In 2013, Snapdeal acquired Shopo.in, an online marketplace for Indian handicrafts. In its quest for expansion and extend...
Paytm to allow payments only through own mobile wallet
Leading ecommerce company Paytm has taken a drastic step towards having its own payment system. The company is letting g...
Zivame adds new offline studio for a unique shopping experience
Zivame plans on making its business profitable by 2018-19 and it intends on doing so through an omnichannel strategy. Th...
Indian ecommerce – current toast of investors!
Thanks to the rise & rise of ecommerce, India is now viewed as a goldmine for foreign investors. According to a Live...
Online Grocery Shops getting popular in metros
Online grocery shopping is gaining popularity in metros like Delhi, Mumbai and Bangalore as customers can save time and...
Online grocers too spend on ads to woo customers
One of the fastest growing segments, online grocery is multiplying rapidly. The convenience of hassle free shopping, doo...
eBay India’s initiative to create world’s largest Trader Base, ties up with CAIT
One of the world’s largest ecommerce platforms, eBay is associated with around 25 million traders across the world and a...
On-demand delivery the next battlefield in competition: Peter Guarraia
The Bain and Co. partner on how Indian firms should focus on digitization to build supply chain and on-demand as the nex...
Indian ecommerce goes global, logistics companies get more local
Varanasi to VeniceWe always knew that the online retail industry was big and growing, but now it seems to be immensely d...
10 ways to address consumer complaints on social media
Have a twitter account, will rant. The internet savvy customer today seems to live by this adage; forever online, foreve...
Flipkart, Snapdeal exchange verbal blows over Alibaba
The founders of E-commerce rivals Flipkart and Snapdeal on Saturday slugged it out on social media over Chinese online r...
Bengaluru-based apparel seller files case against Jasper
City-based apparel-seller Rajdhani Cotton has filed a complaint with Delhi Police against Jasper Infotech Private Limite...
Snapdeal to offer grocery, ties up with Godrej Nature Basket
After the Agri store, it’s grocery on the cards for Snapdeal. Looks like the homegrown ecommerce player is leaving no st...
Ecommerce to fuel FMCG in Tier 2, 3, 4 cities, CII & Boston Consulting Group
A joint report released by the Confederation of Indian Industry (CII) and Boston Consulting Group (BCG) has observed tha...
Government to define ‘marketplace’ in FDI to ease confusion
Ecommerce companies have reason to breathe a sigh of relief. The government is planning to issue a definition of ‘market...
Infibeam to build Gujarat SME businesses online through new partnership
While other online etailers obsess over private labels and profitability, Infibeam has teamed up with the IT division of...
Alliances between ecommerce companies and banks on the horizon
Reserve Bank of India’s (RBI) Deputy Governor, H.R. Khan has revealed that India’s central bank is working on effectivel...
Snapdeal to help sellers secure working capital
Homegrown e-Commerce major Snapdeal today launched a new initiative to help sellers on its platform get easy access to w...
What Indian Niche E-Commerce Companies Plan To Do in 2015
What do the heads of niche e-commerce companies – Myntra, Jabong, FashionAndYou, Urban Ladder and FabFurnish feel would...
Free Shipping for purchases made through Flipkart’s mobile app
The Indian ecommerce market is most popular with young Indians in their 20s and 30s. They are also the ones most familia...
Traders body ties up with Singaporean ecommerce firm to expand marketplace, elala
The Confederation of All India Traders (CAIT) is reportedly connected to 60 million traders in India. This huge figure b...
Marketplaces use Digital Literacy to lure retailers
With increase in competition, online marketplaces have been seen to compete amongst themselves on the basis of services...
Government systematically opens doors for FDI in ecommerce
Foreign investment in business to customer (B2C) e-commerce activities has been opened in a calibrated manner, Parliamen...
Infibeam aims for $1 billion valuation after IPO
Funding and investment in the Indian ecommerce space is nothing new to us now. However, the names and figures and the re...
Snapdeal apologetic after blasphemous sales tag line
Use of term ‘Good Friday’ in a promotional campaign by E-commerce firm Snapdeal on Good Friday, a day observed to commem...
Flipkart may be great for Walmart to acquire!
It seems like 2015 is going to be a roll for Flipkart. Just a couple of weeks back, the company has received about $ 700...
Softbank to dig deeper into Indian ecommerce via Snapdeal, BigBasket, Paytm merger & investment
Japanese investor Softbank’s founder and CEO Masayoshi Son wants to be remembered as ‘a crazy guy who bet on the future....
Investors’ sell stakes in Snapdeal; start-up markdown crisis continues
We hope you didn’t miss Flipkart’s Sachin Bansal and Snapdeal’s Kunal Bahl twitter spat.Keeping aside the sarcastic tone...
Mobikwik emerges as frontrunner to acquire FreeCharge; merger would mark Softbank’s exit from Snapdeal
Japanese investor Softbank is in the thick of orchestrating merger and investments deals in India. IOS reported how the...
Trick or trade: Amazon and Flipkart pushing their own retailers over other sellers
We had recently carried an article about how Amazon and Flipkart are aggressively competing with each other to become th...
Yepme raises Rs 4.5 crore; FY16-17 losses trimmed down by 74%
Fashion etailer Yepme has a reason to smile; two, in fact. The Gurgaon-based start-up recently raised funds and is looki...
Myntra to open 10 offline stores after new acquisition?
In May 2014, we first heard of Myntra’s intention to venture offline with its Roadster brand. After the success of its r...
Craftsvilla, online handicrafts marketplace, secures $18 million funding
The most recent to join the funding bandwagon in the ecommerce space is Craftsvilla; the online handicrafts marketplace...
Rural internet users to surge to 28 crore by 2018: Report
Citing an example, the report said: “This will help marketers using online distribution through e-commerce to ensure wid...
Leading physical stores use technology to take on etailers
Offline retailers are leaving no stone unturned to catch up with their online rivals. While many are going online and se...
Offline mobile stores to compete with Flipkart, Amazon
Recent statistics have revealed that ‘electronics’ is the leading product category in online retail. More and more peopl...
Indian Etailer’s Growth Mantra – Rural Before Global
Rural to urban migration in India is a common practice, mainly for better education and employment opportunities. But wh...
Can privately owned brands earn money in ecommerce?
It’s not rare that you see your neighbour sporting a tablet of a brand you have not heard of or that fashionista at work...
On-demand delivery – the latest strategy to gain competitive advantage in ecommerce
New players in the hottest ecommerce segment – online grocery, have managed to crack the code with on-demand delivery. W...
