'Arrogant' US e-commerce firms flout India's laws, Piyush Goyal saysLarge e-commerce firms have come into India and are "very blatantly" violating Indian laws, in more ways than one, Union Commerce and Indus...
27 Jun, 2021, 10.13 PM IST
CAIT criticises lobby group USIBC for reportedly urging India not to tighten e-commerce FDI rulesCAIT shot off a letter to US-India Business Council (USIBC) President Nisha Biswal, stating that "without knowing the true facts and under ...
30 Jan, 2021, 05.57 PM IST
Mobile phone retailers to boycott Samsung for three daysIn a Whatsapp message sent by the offline cellphone retailer lobby, All India Mobile Retailers Association (AIMRA), to the trade on Friday ...
07 Feb, 2020, 10.31 PM IST
Samsung asking retailers to register on Amazon Pay, allege cellphone shop ownersThis comes at a time when the competition watchdog is investigating the business practices of ecommerce marketplaces and the exclusive arra...
05 Feb, 2020, 09.28 AM IST
Samsung to take Galaxy M smartphones offlineGalaxy M has been an online exclusive smartphone series, but Samsung has decided to take it offline as well, heeding to demand from offline...
11 Nov, 2019, 08.22 AM IST
Government wants ecommerce companies to make kiranas part of their growth storyThis comes against the backdrop of groups such as CAIT and AIMRA complaining to the govt about online deep discounting and alleging that ec...
07 Nov, 2019, 07.23 AM IST
Ecommerce companies Flipkart, Amazon log out of deep discountsOnline marketplaces treading cautiously after February tweak in ecommerce policy.
16 May, 2019, 01.47 PM IST
Snapdeal, Shopclues, others form lobby groupThe founding members also include digital-first fashion brands like Bewakoof, Breya and Rustorange.
14 Mar, 2019, 10.21 AM IST
How desi tech lobby is giving Silicon Valley giants a run for their moneyHome-grown lobbyists. Indian technology companies’ fight against global internet firms is being led by
22 Feb, 2019, 08.24 AM IST
CAIT hits out at US-India advocacy body on FDI in e-comm normsThe marketplace itself cannot discriminate among vendors and one seller cannot have more than 25% of sales on one ecommerce marketplace.
29 Dec, 2018, 08.07 PM IST
ED confirms probing Amazon, FlipkartThe ED revealed this to the Delhi high court on October 31 in response to a public interest litigation filed against the country’s two bigg...
16 Nov, 2018, 09.22 AM IST
Startup lobby group loses its chief executiveGyanendra Badgaiyan, a former IAS officer hired in November as the chief executive of Indiatech, has put in his papers, multiple people fam...
02 Apr, 2018, 08.19 AM IST
SoftBank to back startup lobbying group conceptualised by Sachin Bansal, Bhavish AggarwalJoins Kalaari, Matrix In Fight Against Foreign Competitors.
26 Oct, 2017, 02.01 PM IST
Why Amazon, Flipkart, Snapdeal and ShopClues fight and can’t stand united against offline retailers and government rulesIndia’s ecomm blue chips are fractious, even when confronted with a constricting set of central government rules and state-level taxation t...
22 Jun, 2016, 10.09 AM IST
Jeff Bezos announces $3 billion investment in Indian business in the presence of PM Narendra ModiJeff Bezos said the company would invest an additional $3 bn in India, boosting the company's committed investment in the country to $5 bil...
09 Jun, 2016, 03.37 PM IST
Amazon steps up US lobbying for Indian FDI; Walmart on haltThe other matters on which Amazon lobbied during the last quarter include issues related to mobile payments, unmanned aerial vehicles, free...
27 Apr, 2014, 09.15 PM IST
After Walmart, Amazon lobbies in US for Indian FDIAmazon's lobbying in the US comes at a time when Indian govt has floated a discussion paper on allowing FDI into e-com retail biz in the co...
03 Feb, 2014, 04.25 AM IST