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Just produce a consumer focused product, we will do the rest – Snapdeal tells budding entrepreneurs
In the West, Walmart operates a direct distribution using which small entrepreneurs and innovators with new products can...
Snapdeal to pick up products on Sundays too!
Snapdeal seems to be gearing up to race to the top by focusing on faster delivery to customers. Following Japanese group...
The ecommerce industry is rightly valued, says the CEO of Jabong
Arun Chandra Mohan, CEO and founder of Jabong, recently announced the latest collection, designed by actor Alia Bhatt fo...
Ecommerce delivery boy robbed at gunpoint for cash & camera
Some of the challenges ecommerce delivery boys face include, back problems, road accidents, excessive overtime and locat...
SBI Ties up with Snapdeal, PayPal to Assist Small, Medium Business
Country’s largest bank SBI today signed pacts with ecommerce player Snapdeal and digital payments firm PayPal for provid...
Alibaba-ICICI tie up to help Indian online sellers with finance
On his recent visit to India in April, Chinese ecommerce giant’s Chairman Jack Ma expressed his intention to help small...
EBay considering spinning off Paypal by next year
EBay Inc is considering a spinoff of PayPal, its fast-growing payments unit, as soon as next year, tech news website The...
Playing coach: Flipkart offering exam study materials online
Flipkart gets nerdyThe e-learning sector in India is fast picking up. Earlier, Snapdeal had also launched e-learning ser...
25% cap on sales for marketplace ecommerce player is reasonable
Ruling out any relaxation in the 25 per cent cap on sales from a single seller for e-commerce marketplaces, a top govern...
Ping: Flipkart, Jabong to launch instant chat to connect with customers
Last year saw many changes in the customer experience area with etailers trying out various options to keep them hooked....
Snapdeal reduced delivery time by 70%; fulfils 60% of orders in-house
Ecommerce marketplace, Snapdeal recently announced its intention to speed up delivery time, by putting in place stringen...
Flipkart buys mobile payments startup, but loses another top official, Manish Maheshwari
Adding to its vast kitty of subsidiaries, Flipkart has recently purchased PhonePe, a mobile payments start-up. Ironicall...
Myntra reaps benefits of marketplace model, 20% of total sales in just 1 month
The marketplace model of business has proved beneficial for the major ecommerce players in the Indian market. While Snap...
Omni-channel retail back in the news with Spencer’s acquiring MeraGrocer
In February, Spencer’s Retail, a chain of retail stores promoted by RP-Goenka Group had declared its plans to venture in...
ShopClues raises a whopping $100 million from Tiger Global
ShopClues was different from the rest of the other popular online shopping websites, even when it started way back in 20...
Adidas to try omni-channel approach, to connect with customer on all channels
Both offline and online retailers seem to be catching up on the omni-channel approach to retail. One of India’s largest...
Etailers’ & DIPP’s discount dilemma; entry easier for global ecommerce firms
One of the major consequences of latest FDI ruling is the constraint on giving generous discounts. Since marketplaces re...
Snapdeal eyes Rs 500 crore via TV-commerce
Snapdeal, one of the country’s largest e-tailers, is set to rake in Rs 500 crore in the first year from its TV-commerce...
Ecommerce competition: Made in China Vs Made in India
Eight to ten years back there was an onslaught of low-cost Chinese phones in the Indian market. The numbers went down (t...
Mobile marketplace Shopo has 1 lakh+ sellers onboard; Snapdeal’s zero-commission strategy working?
At a time when competitors were scouting for new features and acquisitions to add to its kitty, Snapdeal quietly relaunc...
Creyate: Arvind Group enters the ecommerce wagon with style.
The Arvind group seems to be on a roll this week. Their shares just hit a 52 week high. Quite possible that their agreem...
Are consumers ready for app-only online shopping? The debate continues!
Most online marketplaces such as Flipkart.com, Snapdeal.com, etc., have had both desktop presences and mobile presences...
Check out what contributes to 50% of Snapdeal’s sales
Sales from mobile apps !Yes, you read right. Increase in smartphone and mobile internet users has translated into increa...
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[Infographic] Online Coupons gained traction in 2015; still room for improvement
There is no question that coupons became a buzzword in the Indian ecommerce scene in 2015. Despite etailers aiming to cu...
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[Seller Speak] How to raise funds for an online business
One of many things online sellers like me and you have to do to sustain his/ her start-up is to maintain a constant flow...
Amazon requests time to adjust operations, but why is it a lone battle for the etailer?
The clarification of the terms of the Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) by the Department of Industrial Policy and Promoti...
DIPP working on guidelines for e-commerce sector
Department of Industrial Policy & Promotion (DIPP) is working on guidelines for e-commerce sector in the backdrop of...
Hopscotch, baby products etailer raises $11M funding; investors include Facebook co-founder
Baby products are a booming product category in Indian ecommerce. And word on the block is that baby products etailer Ho...
Demand for ecommerce delivery boys spikes, so does attrition rate! Here’s why
The delivery boys of online retailers are increasingly facing health problems. Most of the delivery personnel in the las...
Change in Plans: ShopClues doesn’t want to focus on rural India?
Just last month we reported about marketplaces shifting their attention towards villages to explore the possibility of l...
Amazon, Snapdeal & Flipkart attract sellers through ecommerce training, tie-ups
Ever since the advent of internet commerce in India, we have been witnessing how the ecommerce players like Flipkart, Sn...
Will Alibaba’s entry give Indian ecommerce industry a makeover?
In the last few weeks, two major developments in the Indian ecommerce industry have the potential to be big game-changer...
‘Ecommerce models will change in a year,’ says Kishore Biyani, Future group
Future Group Chief Executive Kishore Biyani always has a lot to say when he is describing India’s e-commerce market.The...
Shoppers Stop copying Flipkart Amazon private label strategy for sales growth
Online retail is getting more competitive than ever with the introduction of private brands on top ecommerce platforms....
Online grocery Zopnow to enter online fashion & lifestyle segment
One of the top players in the online grocery space, Zopnow is now looking to enter fashion and lifestyle sector.Zopnow w...
Etailers Flipkart, Snapdeal tap into Native Advertising
Frontrunners Flipkart and Snapdeal are leaving no stone unturned in the race to be ecommerce leader. Latest to...
Flipkart, Amazon see multifold growth during special sale
Ecommerce major Flipkart on Thursday said it saw over five-fold growth in transactions on its platform during its ‘Big 1...
India yet to enter top 10 ecommerce markets list in the world; only 180th the size of China
With so much money being pumped in the Indian ecommerce sector by national as well as foreign investors, it seemed that...
Myntra pilots omni-channel strategy; announces ‘End Of Reason Sale’
Very recently fashion etailer, Myntra expressed plans to ramp up its in-house apparel brands in order to compete with of...
Fastest $2 billion first: Amazon sales racing ahead of other ecommerce players
Though it started operations in India only in June 2013, Amazon India has already begun setting many records. The latest...
GST alert: Etailers to impose 1% TCS on vendors from July’17
After dilly-dallying, the government is ready to implement goods and services tax (GST) from July 1st 2017 onw...
Amidst retailers’ clamour & new DIPP rule, Flipkart keeps latest sale low-key
Flipkart is quietly running its latest sale. Titled ‘Big Shopping Days’, the leading ecommerce behemoth has chosen not t...
Flipkart applies for GST Suvidha licence to offer tax benefits to sellers
Online marketplaces are all for the goods and services (GST) even though 1% tax collected at source (TCS) is a must. The...
Tata announces hybrid online store, combining online and offline
Will buyers choose online shopping or real-time stores? Now they can get both with Tata’s soon to be launched hybrid sto...
Flipkart counts on Top Sellers, Dabbawallas, Ekart, & new Marketing Campaign
As ecommerce players put their heads together to accommodate recent FDI developments, we can already see the changes eta...
Myntra takes delivery a notch higher with 1-hour delivery
Perhaps one aspect that online retailers could not fill so far was the instant gratification that customers get when the...
Flipkart’s #AcchaKiya Vs Snapdeal’s #YahanSeKharido – Troll wars in ecommerce
All of us following the ecommerce war stories closely know that it’s not just GMV, delivery, product categories and sell...
Seller sues eBay for alleged ‘Buyer Always Wins’ Policy
A San Francisco based eBay seller filed a class action lawsuit against eBay and PayPal for, among other things, Breach o...
WS Retail to separate Ekart; Flipkart working towards transparency before IPO?
Since the much talked about Big Billion Day on October 6th last year, Flipkart has had a spate of incidents spelling out...
