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E-commerce companies, the poster children of growth in recent years, are likely to report muted earnings for the quarter ended December 2014 due to high competition and investment expenses, say analysts. "The number of searches on the Internet has been…
Read More Competition, investment expenses to weigh on Q3 results of listed e-commerce players
Sanchit Vir Gogia, CEO, Greyhound Research, gives us five reasons why the e-tailers’ predatory pricing can’t last forever While there is no doubt that certain well-funded e-commerce power-houses have eaten into the domestic IT channel market, we have reasons to…
Read More Patience Will Be Key For Survival Of IT Retail: Greyhound Research
In a bid to strengthen their presence in the e-commerce sector, large players such as Amazon, Snapdeal and Flipkart are likely to look at acquiring companies with niche, differential capabilities, say industry analysts. "Snapdeal will be able to leverage Unicommerce's…
Read More More niche acquisitions likely in e-commerce sector, say analysts
Home-grown e-commerce companies such as Flipkart and Snapdeal, which have reached out to Indian artisans and small cottage industries, are unable to sell their products in the international market, while their global rivals such as Amazon and eBay are able…
Read More Lack of logistics hindering Indian e-tailers from selling overseas
This case study looks at how M-Pesa, a service that originated in Kenya, was tweaked for India and whether it can succeed. EXPERT VIEW: OPTIMUM ADOPTION OF M-PESA WILL TAKE AT LEAST TWO YEARS "M-Pesa's adoption has been low owing…
Amazon, Uber recently expressed concern over lack of clarity in regulation. E-commerce players such as Amazon and Uber feel that dated laws and lack of clarity in regulations are the biggest risk for their India operations. “The rules that exist are…
Read More Dated laws, policy grey areas worry e-commerce players
It's been 16 months since Amazon, the $75 billion American e-tailer, launched a full-fledged online marketplace in India. It's been three months since its founder Jeff Bezos committed $2 billion of investments to its Indian operations. Even as those operations…
Just two seconds can make a difference of hundreds of crores of rupees in some businesses. That's the premise on which HDFC Securities is re-inventing its stock trading app for mobile phones. The new app will feed real time stock…
From e-commerce to m-commerce Exactly a year after it launched a mobile app, Amazon India gets half its traffic from smartphones. "The significance of mobiles is much higher in India than anywhere else as most of first time internet users…
Read More Companies devise new strategies to keep pace with rapid rise of mobile commerce
At a time when all online retail biggies such as Flipkart, Snapdeal and Amazonrun big discount sales, how do you make sure you're getting the best price for a product you plan to buy? A growing number of internet shoppers…
Read More Shoppers log on to comparison portals for picking up best deals
Repeat Xiaomi (pronounced shiao-me) five times. The time you will take to accomplish this minor feat is approximately the time it took the Chinese maker of smartphones to sell out their second lot of Mi3 smartphones in India: about five…
Even with over 900 million subscribers, India is yet to see strong demand for electronic account services that allow consumers to transfer money and pay bills using their mobile phones, experts say. Research firm Greyhound said mWallet as a service is an…
Read More Lack of awareness, bank deposit fee hinder mWallet India growth
Even with over 900 million subscribers, India is yet to see strong demand for electronic account services that allow consumers to transfer money and pay bills using their mobile phones, experts say. Research firm Greyhound said mWallet as a service is an…
Read More Lack of awareness, bank deposit fee hinder mWallet India growth
Even with over 900 million subscribers, India is yet to see strong demand for electronic account services that allow consumers to transfer money and pay bills using their mobile phones, experts say. Research firm Greyhound said mWallet as a service is an…
Read More Lack of awareness, bank deposit fee hinder mWallet India growth
Even with over 900 million subscribers, India is yet to see strong demand for electronic account services that allow consumers to transfer money and pay bills using their mobile phones, experts say. Research firm Greyhound said mWallet as a service is an…
Read More Lack of awareness, bank deposit fee hinder mWallet India growth
Even with over 900 million subscribers, India is yet to see strong demand for electronic account services that allow consumers to transfer money and pay bills using their mobile phones, experts say. Research firm Greyhound said mWallet as a service is an…
Read More Lack of awareness, bank deposit fee hinder mWallet India growth
India was hardly on Jeffrey Preston "Jeff" Bezos's mind when he conceived the business in 1994. But, the founder of Amazon (it was initially incorporated as Cadabra), today a e-retailer behemoth, saw one of his early orders was from halfway…
