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Amid concerns of Indian startups’ financial health, Flipkart – the country’s largest e-commerce firm – put 300-600 employees on a performance improvement plan that might result in layoffs. “Market correction has impacted e-commerce firms. This is beyond regular attrition. Downsizing…
Read More Amid E-retail Crisis, Flipkart Puts 300-600 Employees On Road To Layoffs
Snapdeal recently expanded their e-commerce marketplace to include more service offerings through a ‘one-of-a-kind partnership’ with Zomato, Cleartrip, UrbanClap, and redBus. Now in a recent interview with Livemint, Kunal Bahl, CEO, Snapdeal, said that the company is now focusing on…
Read More “Snapdeal is well-positioned to turn profitable in the next 2-3 years”- Kunal Bahl, CEO
Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba Group is poised to announce its India entry with a data centre. The Hangzhou-headquartered company, which is planning to enter the fledgling e-commerce market in India this year, probably through an acquisition, wants to set up a local data…
Read More Alibaba to set up India data centre to take on Amazon
As Indians start buying more things online, it is placing a lot of stress on disposal and management of packaging waste. For Kartik Subramanium, a techie, buying online was a cool thing to do. “From clothes to groceries, I shopped online,”…
The government’s foreign direct investment norms for e-commerce marketplaces issued on Tuesday may prove to be a dampener for consumers due to the clampdown on pricing freedom for marketplace operators and lack of adequate post-sales safeguards. “Exact numbers are not…
It was not long ago that Kunal Bahl, CEO and co-founder of Snapdeal, announced that by the end of the current fiscal, that is 2015-16, his company will overtake Flipkart as India’s largest e-commerce company. “That will not happen for…
Read More Snapdeal Still Has A Long Way To Go To Overtake Flipkart
In the final leg of Tata Group's initiative to launch a hybrid ecommerce venture comprising all its consumer companies, many group firms, including Titan and Trent, have set up special liaison teams to help with the digital drive. These teams will work with Tata Unistore,…
Read More Tata Companies firm up Digital teams before launch of Ecommerce venture
Digital disruption is allowing customers to engage with organisations through new-age customer touch points like mobile devices, app stores and online communities. Traditional go-to-market channels like retail stores are being replaced by new-age digital channels such as mCommerce and eCommerce…
Read More Driving Revenue In The Face Of Digital Transformation – A CSO Directive
India is in the throes of an entrepreneurship revolution, with online start-ups getting the support of both consumers and venture capitalists. In fact, over the years, a large number of online travel start-ups have entered the fray to cash in…
Snapdeal is seeking to emulate social media giant Facebook in the commercial media space as it looks to expand its footprint. Kunal Bahl, CEO & co-founder, Snapdeal, is creating a clan of apps, just the way Facebook did with FB,…
Infosys on Friday announced the acquisition of Kallidus Inc, a US-based e-commerce tech solutions firm, in an all-cash, $120-million deal. The IT major also announced a minority stake buy in another US startup, Airviz, for $2 million. This is the second…
Read More With $120 Mn Kallidus Inc Buy, Infosys Invokes The ‘Cloud Messenger’
There have been raging debates on net neutrality in recent weeks from Airtel’s Zero to Facebook’s Internet.org and anything that’s coming on the way to block the Web. Those debating are either ‘for’ or ‘against’ the topic. However, Net neutrality…
Infosys on Friday announced the acquisition of Kallidus Inc, a US-based e-commerce tech solutions firm, in an all-cash, $120-million deal. The IT major also announced a minority stake buy in another US startup, Airviz, for $2 million. This is the second…
Read More With $120 Mn Kallidus Inc Buy, Infosys Invokes The ‘Cloud Messenger’
The pending TRAI decision on establishing a regulatory framework for Web-based OTTs , if passed will have serious implications on millions of Indian lives. While there is a lot of debate going on about the ramification of Net Neutrality and…
Read More Net Neutrality Differential Pricing Will Hit India’s Digital Economy
The pending TRAI decision on establishing a regulatory framework for Web-based OTTs if gets passed will have serious implications on millions of Indian’s lives. While the there is a lot of debate going on about the ramification of Net Neutrality…
Read More Differential pricing will hit India’s digital economy
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The e-commerce industry in India is set to increase from $4.5 bn today to $45 bn in next 4-5 years. Moderating the second panel session, Sanchit Vir Gogia, Chief Analyst & CEO, Greyhound Knowledge Group pointed out that while the…
Months after e-commerce major Flipkart raised $1.9 billion (about Rs 11,800 crore) in three rounds of funding in 2014, the Bengaluru-based company is again understood to be in talks to raise at least $500 million. “I believe the profit margins…
When Jack Ma visited India in November, he said he was keen to do business with companies here. In just two months, the Chief Executive Officer of Alibaba has made good his intention by taking a 25 per cent stake…
Join Greyhound Research (@Greyhound_R) and other esteemed panelists for a tweet-up on #BigDataTalk: How I Met Your Customer: Data Driven Marketing In E-Commerce. WHEN: Tuesday, June 17, 2013. 3:00 PM (IST) onwards WHERE: Twitter.com or your fav Twitter app, using…
Read More Tweet-Up on Big Data Talk: How I Met Your Customer: Data Driven Marketing In E-Commerce
Customer interactions have become like a complex code that needs proper decoding in order to serve them better. As consumers use multiple touch-points to access information, exchange reviews and buy products and services, organizations are clearly finding it difficult to…
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…
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…
It’s that time of the year again when Indians and all others with economic ties to this country eagerly await the announcements from the much celebrated annual financial event, the Union Budget. To gauge the market sentiment, I made a…
Read More Keeping A Cat-Eyed Vision At The Union Budget 2013-14
