Amazon joins quick commerce race, to focus on beauty and home nextInternally codenamed 'Tez', Amazon is engaging with brands in beauty, home, and kitchen categories as part of the scale-up plan.
13 Feb, 2025, 08.44 AM IST
Amazon’s largest seller Cocoblu gets set for a quick commerce forayCocoblu Retail, Amazon’s largest seller, has established a new entity for its quick commerce operations to enable the ecommerce giant’s rap...
23 Jan, 2025, 05.20 PM IST
Top startup and tech stories this weekWelcome to a new edition of ETtech Unwrapped – our weekend newsletter packed with the most important stories this week. Let’s take a look.
11 Jan, 2025, 07.19 AM IST
Ecommerce pushes quick commerce as Amazon tests Tez, Flipkart boosts MinutesIn 2025, ecomm giants like Amazon and Flipkart are intensifying their efforts in the quick commerce market. Amazon is piloting its Tez serv...
09 Jan, 2025, 07.42 PM IST
Rising marketing costs for stock brokers; ecomm pushes qcommHappy Thursday! New-age brokers are dealing with rising customer acquisition costs. This and more in today’s ETtech Morning Dispatch.
09 Jan, 2025, 08.28 AM IST
Fast, faster, fastest: How 2024 put more speed into your shopping2024 marks a significant year for quick commerce in India, with major players like Swiggy, Flipkart, Myntra, Amazon, Tata, Nykaa, Zomato, a...
25 Dec, 2024, 10.25 AM IST
Head of consumer electronics quits amid a top churn at Amazon IndiaRanjit Babu, head of consumer electronics at Amazon India, has resigned amidst a wave of senior-level departures. Babu's exit follows the r...
09 Dec, 2024, 06.00 AM IST
Amazon advances quick commerce delivery code named TezAmazon India is gearing up to launch its quick commerce delivery service, codenamed 'Tez,' by late December or early next year. The move wi...
25 Nov, 2024, 02.26 PM IST
Amazon’s Tez; ad revenues & qcomm firmsHappy Monday! Amazon is to advancing its entry into the red-hot instance delivery sector. This and more in today’s ETtech Morning Dispatch.
25 Nov, 2024, 07.48 AM IST
Why India matters to the Amazon storyWith arch rival Walmart entering India this year through acquisition of Flipkart, Amazon is expected to double down on its ecommerce play.
06 Sep, 2018, 08.15 AM IST
The war of the walletsCall it World War W. From the American Amazon, Google and Facebook, the Korean Samsung Pay to the China-backed but constantly asserting its...
10 Mar, 2018, 11.58 AM IST
What's up, WhatsApp? Google's beating plastic in IndiaFor both Pichai and Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg, signing up merchants in cities, towns and villages will be critical.
20 Dec, 2017, 03.36 PM IST
Listen hard, Mark. Google's turned up the audio in IndiaWith that battle already lost for Western tech firms, the war has moved to India where there's no dominant homegrown player, nor any regula...
23 Sep, 2017, 10.29 AM IST
Google payment app Tez sees a slow start; people call it “buggy”Using NPCI's Unified Payment Interface, money transfers are simple and secure with Tez, said Google in Tez app description.
19 Sep, 2017, 11.28 AM IST
With Tez, Google reads a chapter from fintech taleDesigned like a chat-like interface, Tez uses UPI platform to facilitate financial transactions.
19 Sep, 2017, 09.34 AM IST
Digital payments bound to pick up again: Finance Minister Arun Jaitley"Tez has been made for India and will make payments as simple as cash," said Caesar Sengupta, vice-president, Next Billion Users team, at G...
18 Sep, 2017, 11.59 PM IST
In trying to be the WeChat of India, Google Tez may have missed a trickGoogle has entered the crowded payment App space in India. As lucrative as it may be, Google may soon find out that the more is not the mer...
18 Sep, 2017, 05.41 PM IST