India's e-commerce battlefield gets ready for bloody warsSwiggy's successful IPO, raising over Rs 10,000 crore, signals a surge in investment for quick commerce. This influx of capital is fueling ...
14 Nov, 2024, 03.10 PM IST
What’s cooking at Swiggy, Zomato? New business recipesThe gambit by the two fierce competitors—which have battled each other for over a decade—comes even as they take on the might of ecommerce ...
11 Nov, 2024, 10.10 AM IST
Stock brokers push lending; InsuranceDekho’s latest acquisitionHappy Tuesday! Tech-first broking companies are looking to diversify into the credit business to build a larger financial services play. Th...
04 Jun, 2024, 07.53 AM IST
Meesho joins carts queued up at credit, grocery countersEcommerce company Meesho wants to start a credit marketplace where borrowers will be sourced on behalf of its lending partners — banks and ...
30 Jan, 2024, 07.26 AM IST
It cost PhonePe Rs 8,000 crore to come to India, says Sameer NigamNigam said the company faced several challenges during its shift from Singapore to India last October as Indian law poses “certain obstacle...
25 Jan, 2023, 09.09 PM IST
Fidelity may lead Meesho's new $550-600M round taking valuation up to $5BRival DealShare also closing new financing at $1.5–1.8 billion valuation as social commerce players attract big investments
24 Sep, 2021, 08.59 AM IST
Passive vs active vs international mutual fund: Which is the best option?Returns from international equity funds were, at best, subject to 20% tax after indexation. This gap has now closed because domestic equity...
14 Sep, 2021, 09.19 AM IST
Flipkart acquires Cleartrip as part of its diversification driveThe Flipkart-Cleartrip deal comes at a time when Flipkart and Amazon are aggressively pushing hotel and travel bookings on their sites as t...
15 Apr, 2021, 03.15 PM IST
Meesho's diversification plan pits it against Amazon, FlipkartSocial commerce platform Meesho wants to diversify its business model to target 100 million small businesses, a hitherto untapped yet lucra...
13 Apr, 2021, 10.55 AM IST
OnePlus investing Rs 100 crore to build offline network in India; launches 8T smartphoneChina's OnePlus currently has 5000 points of sales, including larger modern trade retail shops through 14-15 partners like Reliance Digital...
15 Oct, 2020, 09.47 AM IST
Rs 20 insurance to help Indian payment firm double revenueMobiKwik offers personal loans of Rs 2,000- Rs 100,000 at interest rates of 20-28% over three to 12 months.
08 Jul, 2019, 10.23 AM IST
Tencent looks for early-stage startup bets, likely to invest $5-15 millionTencent will continue to place large strategic bets on mature Indian ventures as it looks to pick up significant minority stakes in market ...
05 Apr, 2018, 06.34 AM IST
Snapdeal sees all the deals are in services nowSnapdeal, which is aiming to build much higher user engagement with services, had been over the last few months piloting integration of ser...
08 Jul, 2016, 02.27 AM IST
Flipkart to say no to commission and yes to paid adsFlipkart is firming plans to phase out the commissions it charges merchants for selling on its online marketplace, hoping to enlist more of...
19 Aug, 2015, 04.00 AM IST
Flipkart in advanced talks with MakeMyTrip to launch a ticketing platformThe services segment that includes travel bookings, mobile recharge and bill payments is emerging as a crucial growth front for online reta...
15 Jul, 2015, 06.32 AM IST
Flipkart identifies 3 new high-margin revenue streams - online advertising, brand consulting, furnitureFlipkart will soon offer online advertising and brand consulting for vendors using its electronic marketplace, its diversification into fee...
05 Mar, 2015, 09.42 AM IST
Flipkart shows how India has moved into the big league as far as raising money is concernedWith Flipkart’s success in raising this round, we can no longer give lack of capital as an excuse for businesses failing to take off.
31 Jul, 2014, 04.00 AM IST