Flipkart

Flipkart, India’s largest e-commerce player, is consolidating the service offerings of Ekart, its logistics & supply chain arm, to sharpen its focus to its core business model. Beginning February 5, 2017, Flipkart is no longer operating its customer-to-customer courier service...

Admitting that the proposed Goods and Services Tax (GST) is a key reform which will simplify the tax compliance, the e-commerce players on Thursday, however, said the proposed tax collection at source will hurt lakhs of small sellers by...

Snapdeal-owned marketplace Shopo will close down from February 10, after a year and a half of operations. The move comes at a time when Snapdeal is aggressively looking at optimising costs amid intense battle with Flipkart and Amazon. "We started, a...

Highlighting the rise of selective globalisation, Flipkart co-founder Sachin Bansal said a level playing field is needed to ensure that local companies can build solutions for the Indian market and don't get prematurely killed by foreign competition. "Another big thing...

Mobile wallet service provider, Paytm is all set to get a huge investment push from Chinese internet giant Alibaba. To help boost Paytm’s e-commerce business, Alibaba will reportedly be making an investment of $200 million which will give Paytm a valuation...

Global e-commerce major Amazon has sought government’s approval for online selling of food products produced and manufactured in India. The US-based company has proposed to invest about Rs 3,400 crore for the purpose, people aware of the development said, adding that the...

After a whopping 180 per cent growth in 2015, the Indian e-tailing industry expanded by merely 12 per cent in 2016 to clock revenues of USD 14.5 billion, research firm RedSeer on Tuesday said. As per PTI, RedSeer's report said, the biggest...

In the beginning, there were a handful of days that we waited for. Of course, birthdays and anniversaries and long weekends topped the list, then only to be joined by the End Of Season Sale days. Today, with the...

Present in India for over 80 years, shoemaker Bata is renewing focus on the young generation by lining up new launches in youth-oriented space through its sub-brands like Power and Weinbrenner even as the company is doubling advertising budget this...

Flipkart claims it set a record of sorts of Monday selling two lakh units of the Redmi Note 4 within a few minutes of the sale being launched on the website. The sale drew a phenomenal response from customers in India,...