Ecommerce

It’s amazing how Amazon India has been able to grow their product categories so frequently. Since they launched in July last year, Amazon has added over 15 new categories taking the total tally to 20 categories. The new category to get…

Delhi’s Select Citywalk mall is probably one of the most popular shopping destinations in India. Located at Saket District Centre, in Saket, New Delhi, it is spread across 6 acres and has 1,300,000 sq ft of retail development space. The…

Update: 6th Feb 2014: Finally we have an official confirmation from Myntra on the investment. Press Release sent to us by Myntra has confirmed that they have raised $50 million Round Of Financing Led By Premji Invest. Funds will be used…

What do you do when you have a mind-boggling 232 million monthly active users coming to your site but not adding anything to your revenue? Obviously try to make sure they loosen their purse strings. Well, microblogging site Twitter seems to…

Indian eCommerce sector is on a high right now. ASSOCHAM has recently released a report which states that ecommerce in India has grown 88% in the year 2013, compared to 2012. Total of $16 billion or Rs 96,000 crore worth of goods were…

It’s raining sale in the cyber world. Literally. In the space of last week or so we have witnessed two Cyber Sales in India. First out of the garage was the OMG Sale conducted by CitiBank India and soon followed GOSF or Google’s Great…

Airtel has joined hands with Shopify to offer latter’s DIY (Do It Yourself) hosted ecommerce solution to SOHO and SME users in India. Shopify is one of the largest hosted ecommerce solutions company in the world. Started in 2006, they…

PayUPaisa, one of the leading online payment gateway in India has started offering a unique payment model for ecommerce merchants in India and it is called “Release on Delivery”. The model is quite similar to how escrow payments work –…

The fight between online and offline retailers is getting murkier. Given that online retailers are offering products at rock-bottom rates, it is getting very difficult for their offline counterparts to compete. Consumers are increasingly…

I have heard this from number of my friends who run physical stores – This year they have experienced much lower footfalls from consumers, especially in the electronic and apparel segment. And many of them believe it is due to rise in…