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Besides large consolidation in the Indian startup scene, we are also witnessing diversification in a big way. Two of the biggest digital startups from India has declared new launches, which can have a far reaching impact on the overall…

Online travel bookings space is an extremely competitive one in India. New startups are coming up and threatening businesses of large incumbents. This is especially true in Online hotel booking space. Over past year of so, tens of…

In the 1980s, early 90s, when Bollywood filmmakers were accused of churning out B-grade, low quality soft-porn movies, then they justified their creations by telling that “This is what the audience wants”. The same time, cinema lovers…

Indian languages are pushing in and making place for themselves in the e-commerce front now. Be it international social networking platforms being available in multiple Indian languages, or even shopping online on sites that support…

It looks like e-retail major is in a major reconstruction mode of late. From hiring ex-Yahoo key personnel Eric Lange and starting off the seller’s advantage week, the hot news this hour is Flipkart debuting the online ticketing…

Online and Mobile Wallets are everywhere now – They are revolutionizing how we make online and mobile payments, be it for ecommerce purchases or for travel bookings or for movie ticket purchases. The users find wallet payments much more…

Social Media and Ecommerce are like twin brothers. One without the other will feel lonely and both of them together will result in awesome teamwork. Once a buyer decides to purchase any commodity online, he is bound to be affected/…

Last week, we introduced new feature on trak.in – Trakin Toons. Many readers have enjoyed seeing the satirical take on the subjects we write on. Here is a quick wrap-up of the posts we wrote last week: Indian Government is taking no…

The MakeMyTrip (MMYT) stock surged 89% on its listing last Thursday, and has been the best IPO to list in the US since Athena health Inc’s IPO in 1997 which surged 97% on listing. MakeMyTrip raised $70 million by selling 5 million shares…

I actually wanted to put the title as 'Travel Sector continues to remain the only e-commerce friendly sector in India' for obvious reasons we all are aware of but thought a little optimism won't hurt. It is clear that E-commerce in India…