State Bank of India and MakeMyTrip.com signed an agreement today which will see the travel portal make use of India’s biggest bank’s infrastructure to meet its finance and banking related requirements related to its online travel portal. “SBI aims at becoming a “One Stop” solution provider for the entire range of financial needs of e-Commerce […]
Magicbricks, one of the players fighting it out in the highly competitive online real estate classifieds business, said it had implemented a full-fledged map search feature on its website. Map search, in which users can visually search for apartment complexes and photo-view are the two features that helped disruptive start-up housing.com to corner a large […]
It looks like Flipkart is very eager to get some of its exclusive items moving off its shelves, going by the kind of offers and discounts that the online retailer is offering today – the last day of its Big App Shopping Days. The best offers in the electronic segments are the following. Xiaomi Mi […]
Tata Housing, one of the top real estate companies in India and a pioneer in experimenting with online selling of flats in India, has sold a villa worth Rs 5.5 cr through its ecommerce portal. The transaction is easily the biggest retail ecommerce sale in India. “The company has managed to sell more than 30 […]
After Flipkart and Amazon, it’s the turn of Infibeam.com to offer its own ‘big bang’ sale, from Monday through Wednesday. “Various global electronics brands including Apple, Microsoft, LG, Samsung, HP, Philips along with several national brands such as Micromax, Intex and many others will be offering their products in the Big Bang Sale,” the company […]
NDTV, one of India’s biggest TV groups, has signed term sheets with unnamed investors under which they would explore the possibility of supporting NDTV’s entry into the ecommerce sector, the company said. “The Company and NDTV Convergence Limited, a subsidiary of the Company, have signed preliminary, non-binding term sheets with certain potential investors for e-commerce […]
Coolpad Group, also known as Coolpad Dazen, has chosen Snapdeal as its official and exclusive partner for its India entry, giving the Delhi-based e-commerce player a crucial victory in its fight against bigger peers Amazon and Flipkart. Flipkart has landed most of the exclusive launches in India, and according to our estimate, has a market […]
e-commerce in India is set to cross $16 billion in sales by the end of this year, according to an ASSOCHAM- Deloitte joint study released today. The digital commerce market in India has grown steadily from $4.4 billion in 2010 to $13.6 billion in 2014 and likely to touch $16 billion by the end of […]
India’s biggest e-retailer Flipkart is offering special discounts on its ‘big app shopping days’ from today through Wednesday, including on mobiles, TVs, tablets and clothes. The highlights of the offer are the discounts on items that are exclusively sold through Flipkart – such as mobile phones from brands like Motorola. Another interesting offer is that […]
Amazon India is offering discounts under its ‘lighting’ schemes that are just too good to pass by. Among those on offer are Nokia Lumia 638 LTE phone at just Rs 5,999, which makes it the cheapest LTE 4G phone in India, and a Rs 8,000 discount on the BlackBerry Passport that has brought down the […]
The Diwali shopping season has just got over and we’ve heard complaints and reports that online retailers and courier companies have been caught on the wrong foot by the extremely high amount of shopping done by Indians on sites like Amazon, Flipkart and Snapdeal. While earlier, when someone asked: What is better, Flipkart, Snapdeal or […]
The India eCommerce market will reach $6 billion in 2015, a 70 percent increase over 2014 revenue of $3.5 billion according to market research firm Gartner, Inc. Digital commerce facilitates a purchasing transaction over the Web, and supports the creation and continuing development of an online relationship with a consumer or business customer across multiple […]
Even as Flipkart and Amazon get all the attention, there is yet another big player that is setting up its ecommerce operations in India. Wal-Mart, the world’s biggest employer, is expanding its ecommerce operations in India, but has restricted the access to its site to registered owners of smaller shops. In a statement, it said […]
Faced with a hard -sell situation, corporates are gearing up to spend about 25-30% more on advertising this festive season as compared to the last year in consumer durables, electronics & auto taking the lead, according to an ASSOCHAM recent paper. The feedback from corporates suggest that the marketing teams of the companies engaged in […]
Nykaa.com, an online beauty products seller, raised Rs. 20 crores through private investors including HNIs and NRIs to boost the expansion plans of the brand in the omni-channel retail space, including mobile, the company said. With this capital, Nykaa.com aims to grow 4 times this year and another 3.5 times by 2016, it said. It […]
Spicejet and holiday website TripFactory.com launched a combined website for booking holidays using SpiceJet’s flights and Tripfactory’s holiday packages. Called mySpiceTrip.com, the site will offer 100,000 holiday packages at up to 80% discount, SpiceJet said. The website will involve proposals and programs from real travel agents. “This is a unique product because the information, expertise, […]
