Stocks in the news: HDFC Bank, IndiGo, CSB Bank, RIL, HDFC and VIP IndHDFC said it is planning to raise up to Rs 5,000 crore by issuing bonds on private placement basis to meet its business requirements.
06 Jan, 2021, 07.38 AM IST
Covid-19: Using AI and data science to combat health pandemicsTech platforms, telecom companies and governments need to come together at a time like this to work together towards addressing the balance...
11 Apr, 2020, 10.33 AM IST
How women are sidelined in India's e-commerce growthIndia’s internet commerce has been driven by what men want, with little focus on women's requirements.
14 Jul, 2019, 02.09 PM IST
What's threatening to dampen the hopes of aggregators in IndiaA groundswell of complaints from irate customers is dampening prospects for aggregators in India.
16 Dec, 2018, 10.08 AM IST
For Indian startups, a new surge of Asian investors means rethinking everythingIndian startups, coming off a couple of years when funding had dried up, are getting attention of Asian investors.
15 Jul, 2018, 01.57 PM IST
Flipkart-Walmart deal: What it means for the etailer and the whole industryWalmart's buying of Flipkart will mark a big shift in basic focus: from profligate ways to profits, from cut-price strategies to a sharp ey...
29 Apr, 2018, 10.27 AM IST
Many sub-unicorn Indian startups are finding niche global marketsVCs are losing patience as returns don't match expectations from a growing market like India, where startups have burnt enough cash just to...
22 Apr, 2018, 02.26 PM IST
Is the ascent of deep-pocketed global cos Amazon, Alibaba hindering rather than helping India's startup ecosystem?The alarm bells rung by the foray of WhatsApp and Google’s Tez a few months earlier into a market that has so far been led by the desi star...
25 Feb, 2018, 06.16 AM IST
A rough road awaits e-commerce companies as they race to the Indian hinterlandsCompanies have had to tweak business models, extend and improvise on logistics and supply chain, and patiently chip away at the suspicion o...
21 Jan, 2018, 06.01 PM IST
Pepperfry and Urban Ladder's 'offline' idea to ward off global brandsIndia’s largest furniture retailers (both bristle at the etailer tag) are making this strategic shift at a time when the industry itself is...
18 Jun, 2017, 01.28 AM IST
Consumers' trust is the key to mobile marketing successAs of 2016, consumers were spending an average of 25% of their daily time on mobile devices, but advertisers were pumping in only 12% of th...
07 May, 2017, 01.40 AM IST
Amazon, Flipkart battle now moves to in-house brandsPrivate labels give the e-commerce companies better control over the entire process of pricing the products, using technology platform and ...
02 Apr, 2017, 10.02 AM IST
Internet access led to racial hate crimes in early 2000sBroadband availability increased the incidence of racial hate crimes committed by lone-wolf perpetrators in the US during the period 2001-2...
29 Sep, 2015, 04.02 PM IST
Year-long party? Flipkart plans buyouts, funding at $15 bn valuation & selling $5 bn goods by March '16Amazon set to compete aggressively with an investment of $2 billion in India and Snapdeal raising nearly $1 billion from Japan’s SoftBank.
14 Jan, 2015, 07.02 AM IST
Sellers like Cloudtail and WS Retail on Amazon, Flipkart scaling up to grab top slotsAmazon maintained that the company has adopted marketplace model, under which no one seller is dominant enough to influence the prices of g...
13 Jan, 2015, 06.50 AM IST
IIM Lucknow restructures salary to bring innovation in teachingIIM Lucknow's professors will have to work like their corporate brethren, because this year, their salaries will have a variable pay as wel...
19 Apr, 2013, 06.35 AM IST