Amazon, Reliance and Walmart Inc's Flipkart are in a battle to gain market share in India, where millions of middle class customers are newly adopting online purchases of food and groceries due to the COVID-19 pandemic

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

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

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Tata Group's digital platform would be a gateway to its consumer products that range from beverages and jewellery to fashion and lifestyle and resorts

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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

Five states allowed to borrow Rs 9,913 crore on meeting reform targets Centre has allowed five states to raise additional funds to the tune of Rs 9,913 crore through open market borrowings (OMB). The Department of Expenditure has allowed Andhra Pradesh, Telangana, Goa, Karnataka and Tripura to procure financial resources after they \"successfully met the reform condition of implementation of One Nation One Ration Card System,\" Ministry of Finance said in a statement on Thursday. Harley D...

Samsung will launch the new India-made Galaxy F range of smartphones at Walmart Inc-controlled online retailer Flipkart on Oct. 8, Asim Warsi, a Senior Vice President and Head of e-commerce Business at Samsung India

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

The US government has now delayed the ban on the Bytedance-owned short video app by a week until September 27.

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Flipkart, which vies with players such as Amazon.com's local unit in India and India's Reliance Industries, will be aiming for a valuation in the $45-$50 billion range

Average daily package volume for FedEx Ground, which handles e-commerce deliveries for retailers like Walmart , jumped 31% to 11.6 million during the fiscal first quarter ended Aug. 31

E-commerce companies see a large chunk of their business coming in during the festive sales and they make significant investments ahead of time to ramp up their capacity to be able to handle the spike in orders