Amazon has partnered with Yes Bank to provide to provide working capital loans to merchants on its platform as it looks to boost business during the festive season and overtake reigning e-commerce champion Flipkart...
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Flipkart, PVR tie up to tap million moviegoers for Big Billion Days
Flipkart has partnered with PVR cinemas in Bengaluru, Mumbai, and Delhi to bring its brand campaign around the upcoming Big Billion Days festive sale offline. The company is hoping to reach a million people through this...
Wal-Mart in talks to buy stake in Flipkart
MUMBAI/HONG KONG: Wal-Mart Stores is in talks to buy a minority stake in Flipkart, two people familiar with the matter said, as the world’s biggest retailer aims to break into a fast growing but highly...
Walmart-Flipkart tie-up: Why the association is more likely than a stake sale
The world’s largest retailer, Walmart, which is in direct competition with Jeff Bezos-led e-commerce giant Amazon in the US, may be looking at India, the fastest-growing market, for the next round of business rivalry. A...
Voonik acquires styling app Dekkoh
New Delhi: Voonik Technologies Pvt. Ltd, which operates the fashion app Voonik, said on Friday that it had acquired styling and personalization app Dekkoh for an undisclosed amount. Dekkoh, founded by Aditya Chalsani...
Alibaba eyes acquisition of e-commerce unicorn ShopClues
BENGALURU: Chinese internet behemoth Alibaba, which aims to enter the domestic e-commerce market by early next year, has held discussions to acquire online marketplace ShopClues, which is valued at over $1 billion...
Kairuide Holding scraps full acquisition plan for Hangzhou e-commerce firm
Kairuide Holding Co Ltd : * Says it scraps full acquisition plan for a Hangzhou-based e-commerce firm Source text in Chinese: goo.gl/xNqSUY Further company coverage: (Beijing Headline News). Recent Articles on...
Snapdeal is not ready to sell its GoJavas stake
BENGALURU & NEW DELHI: Online retailer Snapdeal, which owns a sizeable stake in logistics provider GoJavas, does not plan to sell its holding even as the promoters of the Gurgaon-based company aggressively scout for...
Future’s Paytm tie-up to help it ride with Alibaba
NEW DELHI: Kishore Biyani’s recent partnership with Paytm for selling Big Bazaar products on the latter’s site is part of his broader strategy to build an alliance with Alibaba, Paytm’s largest...
Wal-Mart buying Jet.com to lift online sales, battle Amazon
Wal-Mart Stores Inc, vying to better challenge Amazon.com Inc, will pay about $3 billion for internet retailer Jet.com and its innovative pricing software in the largest-ever deal for an e-commerce start-up. The deal...
Flipkart ties up with Ola to promote Lenovo smartphones to its customers
The campaign which is being launched in Mumbai, Delhi, Chennai, Bangalore and Pune starting August 1 will be available to users of Ola’s premium Prime service. Flipkart has partnered with ride-hailing app Ola to...
Snapdeal ties up with Uber, enables cab booking on app
Move is likely to help Snapdeal provide more use cases to its consumers and keep them glued on to its platform with a diverse set of services instead of discounts. Bengaluru: Online marketplace Snapdeal (Jasper Infotech...
