Amazon's 'Great Indian Festival' started on October 17 and will go on for about a month to coincide with the festive season. Amazon Prime members were provided early access to the sale from October 16

According to a report by Bernstein, key segments like e-commerce, financial technology and education technology have grabbed investors' interest due to structural shift in consumer behaviour in wake of coronavirus pandemic

The programme, launched in April this year, now has more than 20,000 retailers in 400 cities, including Meerut, Ludhiana, Saharanpur, Surat, Indore, Ernakulum and Kanchipuram

Value-focussed e-commerce marketplace Snapdeal will hold its first sale in mid-October to coincide with Navratri festivities

Amazon Corporate Holdings Private Limited, Singapore and Amazon.com Inc Limited, Mauritius have pumped in Rs 1,125 crore into Amazon Seller Services

The move, which will also help generate employment opportunities, will enable faster and more efficient delivery of packages during the festive season that sees a major spike in orders

The F series of devices, which is being launched in India first, will make its debut during Flipkart's Big Billion Days (BBD) sale and help Samsung cash in on the festive demand

The tie up with Max Fashion will help Flipkart expand its portfolio of apparel and accessory offerings to customers ahead of the festive season

Presently only around 17 per cent of the dining out restaurants are open for business, while another 43 per cent are likely to begin operating once the situation becomes conducive, according to a survey conducted by Zomato

Walmart said it was pleased with Flipkart's  performance ever since it made the investment, and also the manner in which  the team handled the COVID-19 environment in a really effective way

The Goldman Sachs report highlighted that online grocery will be the biggest growth driver for e-commerce in India. The segment is expected to progress gradually growing 20 times over five years to reach $29 billion in size

Facebook has picked up a 9.99 per cent stake in Jio Platforms, the subsidiary of RIL that houses the country's youngest but biggest telecom company as well as an array of apps

While partial payments will reduce the rate of returns and cancellations received by Flipkart, it also shows how much of India's population still relies on hard cash.

Coronavirus impact: Zomato founder Deepinder Goyal said that COVID-19 has positively impacted the health of their business and that they expect to make a complete recovery in the coming 3-6 months

Digitial payment giant Paytm, which had an astonishing rise afterdemonetisation in 2016, is betting on financial services, commerce and payments as three key focus areas

Although the deepening economic has caused households to tighten their purse strings, badly affecting most consumer industries, the e-commerce sector is bucking the trend

The buzz is that the investors include Ant Financial, one of Paytm's earliest backers, and Softbank Group Corp, which had pumped in $1.4 billion last year, the largest fund infusion by a single investor in a desi start-up