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Many of you know about the Prisoner's dilemma. The ecommerce industry of India, has now become the perfect example of it. Before I further go into “How”, for those who are not aware of the concept of the Prisoner’s Dilemma, let me…

Flipkart recently introduced major changes in its policy by reducing return period from 30 to 10 days, and by charging more commission to sellers on the product listings. These changes led to a huge stress among the sellers and many of…

The Gujarat government had passed a bill to allow an extra levy on any product purchased online through various e-commerce websites like Flipkart, Amazon, Snapdeal and Jabong from outside the state. First Flipkart went to court and…

Flipkart has around 90,000 active sellers on their platform; and section among them have revolted against their new policies, especially related to return of products. In a rare display of unity, two trade unions representing these…

Few days back Amazon had revised their return and refund policy, where they reduced product return window to just 10 days along with completely doing away with refunds on electronic items. Now, Flipkart has revised their own return…

Flipkart’s decision to postpone joining dates of IIM-A graduates have triggered a chain of events, which can have long term effects on the overall recruitment and hiring industry, pan-India. Interestingly, as soon as media picked up…

The Indian startup story has taken a new turn in the recent past. For the last half decade or so, venture capitalists and investors from across the country as well as the world have been very bullish about the startup scene picking up…

There was a time when large handset makers were launching Flipkart-only smartphones because Flipkart was at its peak and consumers were really liking the service. In recent times, we have seen smartphone makers like LeEco, Motorola and…

Flipkart had purchased a 34% minority stake in MapMyIndia last year, to advance into GPS navigation and services providing tracking of location. This move was also to improve its supply chain and logistics business, which it plans to…

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…