Ecommerce in India

Amazon India, in February of this year stopped providing refunds on Mobile phone purchases. They have now extended this rule on other electronics products as well. As per the updated returns policy page, all tablets, laptops, desktops,…

Online fashion and lifestyle marketplaces like Jabong, Myntra and Koovs are trying to squeeze in discounts and offers even after 4-5 years of business, while critics wonder where all the investor’s money is going. Jabong seems to…

Tata Group has finally decided to enter the booming ecommerce niche. On May 27th, Tata Group will launch CLiQ, an online marketplace which will initially compliment their brick and mortar stores; but very soon launch their own…

Associated Chambers of Commerce and Industry of India (Assocham) and Forrester has conducted a joint study of Indian ecommerce market; and there are lots of positive news for Indian entrepreneurs. Right now, Indian ecommerce is…

Buying vehicles online is quite a recent phenomenon – While electronics and apparel categories have always been front runners for online shoppers, Indians are now getting comfortable buying products in other categories as well. No one…

During 2012-13, Central Govt. spent total of Rs 14.97 lakh crore on various expenditures pertaining to agriculture, infrastructure, manufacturing, health, defense etc. Out of this, majority of procurement happened on a random basis:…

eCommerce and brands have fought over market dominance in the past - brands feel that ecommerce portals are eating away their profits and ecommerce’ aggressive sales & marketing initiatives are targeted to take customers away from…

Definition of Disruptive Innovation: A disruptive innovation is an innovation that creates a new market and value network and eventually disrupts an existing market and value network, displacing established market leaders and alliances.…

As per reports emerging, it seems that Flipkart is taking their advertisement business pretty seriously; and they may drag several advertisers to Court over non-payment of advertisement fees. Prominent among such defaulters…

After some states in the country introduced the E-commerce entry tax, it was rumoured that Gujarat would implement the tax soon as well. It comes as a shocker that it was indeed true. The Gujarat Government has passed a bill that…