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Snapdeal to facilitate instant loans for its sellers
Good news for all Snapdeal sellers! The ecommerce marketplace, Snapdeal will now provide instant loan approvals to its s...
LocalOye, marketplace for services, returns to desktop after stumbling at app-only
Flipkart is on its way to going app only come September. Post the Myntra website folding episode, many clamoured that it...
Paytm to facilitate collateral free loans for sellers
2015 seems to be the year of focus on online sellers with online marketplaces voicing out their desires to get as many m...
Online sellers bear the brunt of delayed payments
Funds are flowing from all corners in the ecommerce market. But the situation of small sellers and micro-enterprises has...
“Coming Soon! An IOS Exclusive : Flipkart Insider News Article”
Coming Soon! IOS Exclusive!A Flipkart Special News Article OnHow E-commerce paves way for creation of online-only brands...
Furniture etailer Pepperfry gets Rs 640 crore from Goldman Sachs, their first investment in ecommerce
Leading global investment banking firm, US based Goldman Sachs has made their foray into the Indian etail market and the...
Flipkart racing to meet Amazon’s ‘Kirana Now’ plans with ‘f Qck’
In an attempt to take on Amazon’s ‘Kirana Now’ initiative, Flipkart is in talks with local merchants to come up with a s...
Zivame secures Rs 250 crore funding, gearing up to race forward
Intimate wear and lingerie is still a hush-hush subject in our country and online retail seemed to be the perfect answer...
Flipkart raises another $700 million funds, raising the heat in the ecommerce race
Indian etailer giant Flipkart on their course to raise $1.7 billion (Rs 10,500 crore) this year, also in line with their...
Etailers are spreading their offline presence through pop-up stores
We have already established the fact that omni-channel is the emerging reality of today’s retail sector. It’s not just r...
Flipkart to start offline pickup centres to reach all buyers
In an attempt to overcome the hiccups of delivery, Flipkart is now starting offline pickup centres. Techcircle reports t...
Etailers attempt to personalize customer’s shopping experiences
While customers were lured by the hordes with deep discounts last year, etailers are latching on to the personalization...
Zovi to launch app-only marketplace
Indian fashion brand and online store Zovi raised a funding of $50 million (INR 320 crore) to penetrate further into the...
Strong growth of ecommerce pushes sales of plastic money
Indian ecommerce is growing by leaps and bounds and here are some stats to support this fact. According to an ASSOCHAM-P...
Amazon has proof that tier 2 cities are hot in ecommerce!
According to the latest report from ecommerce giant Amazon India, there has been significant increase in traffic and sal...
AskmeBazaar to try hyperlocal ecommerce model for expansion
Around the same time last year, we were bombarded with some heavy advertising from AskmeBazaar.com across various channe...
Indian ecommerce to witness 36% growth by 2020: Report
According to a report by TechSci Research (Canada based), ecommerce industry in India is set to expand by 36% by 2020."I...
Fabfurnish changes business strategy to thrive in the competitive market
Online furniture retailer FabFurnish is undergoing massive tactical business modelling to thrive in the competitive onli...
India Post sets up dedicated ecommerce processing center in Mumbai
With ecommerce platforms increasingly turning to the Indian Posts to deliver their orders to customers, the fast flouris...
Flipkart launches online store to promote Indian handicrafts, opportunity for sellers and artisans
Consumers are always looking for more options, the reason why etailers explore ways to keep them hooked. In trying to ca...
Online jeweller Velvetcase shifts to online marketplace model
Sensing the greater profit potential in a marketplace model, online jewellery retailer Velvetcase has modified its opera...
Traders body raises voice against ecommerce, again
Almost a year back, there was news about the traders body CAIT (Confederation of All India Traders) launching a nation-w...
Ecommerce firms will be covered under Shops Act in Rajasthan
Central as well as several state governments of India are weaving tighter rules & regulations web to get control ove...
Amazon strengthens efforts to reach rural India, ties up with Vakrangee
Vakrangee, the firm that provides various services to rural India, is creating a partnership with Amazon. ET reports tha...
Ecommerce Evolution: Payment solutions, the current focal point; SBI launches ecommerce-specific card
Ever since ecommerce industry emerged in India, the first few years the focus was on expanding the product portfolio, th...
Snapdeal: India’s ecommerce can grow faster than China
Even with the explosive growth in recent years, India’s ecommerce sector remains in the nascent stages and isn’t anywher...
B2B Marketplace XSTOK set to leverage on potential, raises funds
XSTOK, a B2B platform that serves as a marketplace for buying and selling of ready and excess goods recently raised Rs....
Fashionara launches India’s first ‘Flash Sales’ fashion app
Fashion etailer Fashionara recently launched its fashion mobile app exclusively designed to suit flash sales format, mak...
Dell & Inmobi team up for an ecommerce platform
Mobile Advertising network InMobi has formed a strategic alliance with multinational computer technology company Dell.Th...
Counterfeit products disrupting luxury ecommerce space
While most of the retail brands are working towards getting in the online space through top marketplaces, luxury brand o...
Snapdeal introduces ‘Snapdeal Instant’, 1-hour delivery
There’s already been a lot of talk in the ecommerce space about the delivery war between online marketplaces. With every...
Perfect homepage- every ecommerce company’s desire for better conversion rates
Colourful and striking display windows of brick-and-mortar stores works its charm on compulsive buyers and window shoppe...
Paytm to be the title sponsor for all BCCI matches till 2019; Cricket fever grips ecommerce too?
One97 Communications that owns Paytm has grabbed the title sponsorship for all international and domestic cricket matche...
Zivame plunges into TV ads, part of scaling up
Online lingerie leader, Zivame recently launched a fresh TV campaign ‘Inside Out’ that revolves around women expressing...
Peppertap clocks in 10,000 orders per day; Hyperlocal start-ups rule the roost
Back in May 2015, while speaking to IOS, Navneet Singh, CEO of PepperTap had shared, “We slowly grew from a humble 50 or...
Ecommerce players root for UPI as it might reduce COD payments
Etailers believe that if all goes well, then implementation of Unified Payments Interface (UPI) developed by the Nationa...
Aditya Birla Group to release online fashion retail portal abof.com
The Aditya Birla Group is gearing up to join the online fashion world. The legacy company has announced the launch of an...
Snapdeal launches credit card, in tie-up with HDFC, for tier 2 & 3 markets
Indian online marketplace giant Snapdeal in association with HDFC Bank has launched India’s first co-branded ecommerce c...
Mobile Internet and SMS service ban puts ecommerce businesses in a bad spot
Owing to the reservation row in Gujarat, the state government declared a ban on mobile internet and SMS services, last S...
Askmebazaar expanding ecommerce strategy to include fashion and travel verticals by next year
Home and lifestyle online marketplace Askmebazaar poured in huge investments into advertising last year, which inc...
Myntra’s OOPS moment: Technical issues on app during ‘End of Reason’ sale due to high traffic
Fashion etailer Myntra seems to be in trouble again. The recent End of Reason sale that Myntra held had buyers pulling o...
NDTV launches Gadget 360, own online portal to sell gadgets
NDTV news channel launched the online portal Indian roots in 2013 which sells ethnic clothing and accessories. In June t...
GoDaddy Online store, ecommerce solution for Indian SMEs from tech giant, GoDaddy
United States-based tech giant GoDaddy Inc. has launched the ”GoDaddy Online Store” to provide ecommerce solution for sm...
Flipkart forays into furniture segment
Ecommerce major Flipkart today entered the furniture segment, offering over 10,000 items to shop from under its ‘home’ c...
Snapdeal launches product discovery platform Find My Style; to invest Rs 640 crore in R & D
Online marketplace Snapdeal recently introduced its new innovation, findmystyle.in to the world. It’s a technologically...
Shoppers Stop enters online marketplace battlefield by partnering with Snapdeal
Taking omni-channel retail to the next level, ecommerce biggie Snapdeal and retail company Shoppers Stop have formed a s...
Just Delivr, new e-grocer, to expand reach with hyperlocal model & more sellers onboard
Three month old hyper-local grocery start up, Just Delivr has announced plans to expand from 35 cities to 100 cities ove...
Amazon India opens third customer service facility in Pune
Global ecommerce major Amazon on Thursday said it has opened its third customer service facility in India in Pune with a...
Online marketplace margins of 30-40% on apparel eating up seller’s profits
Ecommerce is considered to be a low-cost business model as compared to traditional brick-and-mortar retail stores. Not a...
