Amazon India to sell daily household items and FMCG

Amazon India today announced the launch of its Household Supplies store that offers a wide range of products including dishwashing detergents, household cleaners, laundry detergents, paper, plastic wraps as well as puja supplies. These products will be delivered to any place in India. The entry of the giant into this space could squeeze specialized online […]

NDTV Gadgets valued at Rs 325 cr; investors include Paytm

NDTV has finally announced that it has raised an unspecified amount of money by selling stake in its NDTV Gadgets portal. The investments have been made after valuing the unit at $50 mln (around Rs 325 cr). Interestingly, that amount is close to almost half of the value of the parent firm’s shares — which […]

MTS says won’t block VoIP calls, offers OpenWeb data plans

With operators like Bharti Airtel and Idea Cellular asking the government to be allowed to block certain web applications that compete with their own offerings, data-centric service provider MTS has declared that it will never block any web traffic on its network. Sistema Shyam TeleServices – which runs its services under the MTS brand – […]

Airtel taps entrepreneur Manish Khera to head Airtel Money

Telecom provider Bharti Airtel said that Manish Khera, Co-founder & MD of YTS Solutions will be appointed as CEO of Airtel M Commerce Services Limited (AMSL), which offers Airtel’s flagship semi-closed wallet under the brand name ‘Airtel Money’. YTS Solutions provides solutions of financial inclusion, micro banking and branchless banking. Once appointed, Manish will be […]

Flipkart offers a helping hand to struggling traditional art

Flipkart, India’s largest online marketplace, has launched India Art House – an exclusive store offering sellers a platform to promote regional products. Housing over 10,000 hand-made and traditional handicrafts products, customers will now be able to browse and shop for skilled-crafts from specific regions of their choice, the firm said. “India Art House truly embodies […]

Airtel 4G trials launched in Shillong, Mumbai, Chennai, Hyderabad, Coimbatore and other towns

Bharti Airtel Limited (“Bharti Airtel”), India’s biggest telecommunications company, today launched 4G trials for its customers in Shillong. With this, Airtel 4G trials are now going in Delhi, Mumbai, Chennai, Hyderabad, Coimbatore, Visakhapatnam, Mangalore, Mysore, Madurai, Tiruchirappalli, Vellore, Hubli, Dharwad, Bhubaneswar, Cuttack, Rourkela, Tumkur, Udupi and Manipal. “Airtel 4G enables superfast internet speeds and allows […]

Great Online Home Festival generates sales of Rs 300 cr

Great Online Homes Festival (GOHF), co-organized by Magicbricks, Google and Group M, generated property sales worth Rs 300 cr and more than 500 bookings, organizers said. A total 9 million page views and 4000 coupons were generated, Magicbricks said. Speaking on the occasion, Mr Sudhir Pai – CEO, Magicbricks, said, “The successful conclusion of GOHF […]

NIIT brings ‘Cloud Campus’ e-learning to China

NIIT has launched its remote or e-learning service in China, with support for Mandarin. China is one of NIIT’s biggest markets, and Cloud Campus is a solution that enables remote learning. The solution enables students to learn from the best teachers irrespective of their geographical location. They can also get hands-on practice through lab exercises […]

54% of smartphones have shopping apps; Flipkart No. 1 – Survey

All the mobile web traffic sacrificed by Flipkart seems to be paying off, at least in terms of getting users to install the company’s app. According to Nielsen’s latest survey based on real-time mobile data across 8,000 handsets in the country, Flipkart’s mobile app is present on 35% of all phones checked and was the […]

Flipkart introduces 20 ‘touch and feel’ centers under ‘experience zones’ brand

Flipkart, India’s largest e-commerce marketplace, announced the launch of 20 ‘experience zones’ across the country enabling self-product pick-ups for consumers. The Flipkart experience zones will allow customers to walk into their nearest experience center and collect their shipments at their convenient time. The move resolves the biggest impediment to the further expansion of online commerce […]

Housing.com bags 5 awards from CMO Asia

Housing.com has won five awards at the prestigious National Award for Marketing Excellence hosted by CMO Asia for its ‘Look Up’ campaign. Housing.com swept awards across five key categories including “Brand Excellence in e-commerce and Internet Business Sector”, “Emerging Brand Award” and “Best New Brand, Product and Service Launch”. Housing.com’s ‘Look Up’ was also awarded […]

Flipkart courts retailers with Seller Advantage Week

Flipkart, India’s largest online marketplace launched the ‘Seller Advantage Week’—an initiative in an attempt to woo new sellers to its platform. As a part of Flipkart’s national seller campaign, ‘Apne Sapne Jee Kar Dekho,’ this initiative will offer support and guidance to new sellers to kick-start a hassle-free online journey. Sellers who register with Flipkart […]

Croma lets customers buy from store via website, and vice versa

Croma, the electronic retail chain from the Tata group, said it intends to expand its initial steps at integrating its physical stores and its ecommerce website croma.com. The integration would make it possible for customers to seamlessly merge the physical and online operation. As a result, they would not only be able to buy on […]

Industry opposes suggestion to exclude Amazon, Flipkart etc from key ecommerce responsibilities

Certain rules suggested by the government of India for possible inclusion in its upcoming e-commerce policy have drawn opposition from industry bodies. Key among these are the conditions that payment collection, packing and delivery should be made the responsibility of the seller and not the intermediary website (such as Flipkart and Amazon). The Department of […]

SBI, bankbazaar.com tie-up for home loan origination

State Bank of India (SBI), the largest bank in India, has entered into a Tripartite memorandum of understandingn with bankbazaar.com and SBI CAP Securities Ltd to provide one more online platform for applying for SBI Home Loans. “This partnership will help the Bank Under this arrangement, the Bank will be able to display its Home […]

Tata Housing to conduct online real estate exhibition

After registered sales of mobile phones, it’s registered sales of flats. Tata Value Homes, an arm of Tata Housing Development Company, announced India’s first online exhibition for an exclusive audience through a valid invite code. Registrations for this three day event starting 13th to 15th July, have begun on www.tatavaluehomes.com. “With this launch, Tata Value […]