You can’t replicate something which has worked globally, says Sridhar Gundaiah who founded StoreKing in 2012 to help people shop online thr...

Investors are writing big cheques for startups that lend as little as Rs 50,000 to small businesses; funding to alternative lending this ye...

As per a PricewaterhouseCoopers study, there are about 12 million mom-and-pop stores. These kirana stores constitute more than 90% of FMCG ...

Eko had released APIs for its domestic money transfer business which allows companies having similar business models to plug in these APIs ...

The mobile-first, subscription-based product has made the country one of the top five in the world for the enterprise communications app.

Airtel, Vodafone and Idea along with newcomer Reliance Jio Infocomm are offering incentives to shop owners and retail chains to sign up wit...

With assisted commerce, a startup named StoreKing is mutating the rural credit model and helping villagers survive on a mix of cash and cre...

Expansion in the offline market and adding new online partners through the year have lead to a 150% growth in volumes sales in the quarter,...

Home to about 870 million people, the countryside will be in the thick of action for the rest of the decade, according to a recent BCG repo...

Burdened with a disorganised back end and resultant stock-outs, these kirana store owners are fighting where larger businesses are growing.

Flipkart will now have an offline sales presence in what is being seen as a major move to reach out to those segments of the population tha...

The variety of purposes for which mobile wallets can now be used, and the pace of their adoption, suggests that they could replace credit c...

With rewards-linked loyalty programmes, they are incentivising cash users in these areas to convert their money into wallet money at the ki...

The facility will be available in 600 small towns and 5,000 villages across the states of Karnataka, Andhra Pradesh, Telangana, Tamil Nadu.

Retail sector is witnessing the dawn of a new era as ecommerce startups take frugal technology to rural India where big companies such as F...

Companies such as eDabba, iPay and StoreKing are adopting a quasi e-commerce model to reach customers in rural areas where internet connect...

The venture capital fund will look at investing in companies that offer disruptive models in the e-commerce and telecom space, for an inves...