Ecommerce Business and Investments

Saturday, July 28, 2012

Yatra taking over rival Travelguru The Travelguru acquisition will make Yatra a dominant player in domestic hotel bookings

Yatra Online Pvt. Ltd is taking over rival travel and hotel booking site Travelguru.com by acquiring the stake of US-based travel agency Travelocity.com LP in the Mumbai-based company,...

The Bharatiya 11:45 PM

China pips Apple on iPhone 5 launch The hotly anticipated iPhone 5 is widely expected to be released sometime between August and October this year

Apple Inc’s next-generation iPhone has not even been released yet, but opportunistic sellers on China’s largest e-commerce platform, Taobao, are already accepting pre-orders, complete...

The Bharatiya 11:40 PM

Indian entrepreneurs could do with some nurturing too Indian entrepreneurs have made their mark in the Internet space through examples such as InfoEdge, Flipkart and Makemytrip

Jeff Bezos launched Amazon in 1998, which created the phenomena called e-commerce on the Internet. Its market capitalization is about $98 billion now and Bezos is an inspiration...

The Bharatiya 11:39 PM

Stock options back in vogue as funding rounds boost valuations Employees of firms such as Just Dial and One97 have reaped substantial rewards through stock options

InfosysLtd, India’s second largest software exporter, was among the technology companies that rewarded staff with employee stock options, or Esops, which turned some of them into...

The Bharatiya 11:37 PM

With 4G launch, RIL plans to kill many birds with one stone In terms of sheer ambition, though, the 4G project has the trademarks of the typical Ambani initiative

Reliance Industries Ltd’s (RIL’s) much-anticipated launch of wireless broadband, or the so-called fourth-generation (4G) services, is scheduled for early 2013 in New Delhi and Mumbai,...

The Bharatiya 11:36 PM

Online sales surf higher on coupon sites’ traffic In November, 27.2 million users above the age of 15 years -- or 59% of the 46.4 million Internet audience in the country -- engaged in retail activity compared with 23.02 million -- or 56% of the 41.2 million users in 2010

The number of Indian Internet shoppers around the festive season rose by 18% in November 2011 compared to the same month a year ago, spurred by bargain hunters thronging coupon...

The Bharatiya 11:35 PM

Tata’s retail firm enters ecommerce “The online store and the physical retail store chain would be two separate entities and will have individual strategies in terms of deals available and will compete with each other,” said Ajit Joshi, CEO

Infiniti Retail Ltd, a 100% subsidiary of Tata Sons Ltd, on Monday entered the ecommerce space, launching cromaretail.com to compete alongside the group’s retail store chain Croma...

The Bharatiya 11:29 PM

Fashionara, Jabong, FutureBazaar, Myntra Ecommerce sites future with critics

Shopping online in India is an impersonal experience. It’s been mechanical. This was something I wanted to address. You buy something beautiful and it comes wrapped in ugly plastic,”...

Sunday, July 15, 2012

The Bharatiya 2:33 PM

Cocktail format was not familiar territory for me: Homi Adajania

A scene from Cocktail Having debuted with an off-beat film like Being Cyrus, director Homi Adajania is back with a not so familiar territory of romantic-comedy...

The Bharatiya 2:32 PM

Farah Khan is great fun: Boman Irani

After having directed masala entertainers, filmmaker-turned- actress, Farah Khan is stepping in front of the camera. Farah, who is a mother of triplets, is now making her debut...

Sunday, July 8, 2012

The Bharatiya 8:38 PM

ZOROASTRIAN RHAPSODY

A new biography reveals the Parsi origins that Freddie Mercury tried so hard to hide I’VE BEEN trying to remember when I first worked out that an Indian had become the first...