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Run off their virtual feet at the start of India's festival season, e-commerce companies like Amazon and Walmart owned Flipkart are looking forward to a potentially record breaking few weeks. Any lingering fears that inflation and higher interest rates would dampen consumers' spirit in Asia's third largest economy, are being rapidly dispelled.

The Chinese shopping app Temu has gained immense popularity worldwide, enticing customers with incredibly low prices for products shipped directly from China.

Indian e-commerce startup Meesho has posted its first-ever profit and is targeting a stock market listing in the next 12-18 months, a senior company executive said in an interview. Meesho competes with Amazon and Walmart's Flipkart in India's fast-growing e-commerce market, with its website becoming popular by targeting smaller towns and cities...

China's Xiaomi will focus on boosting its India sales from retail outlets after years of big bets on e-commerce, its India president said, as the company seeks to revive smartphone sales after falling behind South Korea's Samsung. 44 percent of India's smartphones sales are now online.

Amazon's Prime Day two-day shopping event saw U.S. online sales rise nearly 6% to $6.4 billion from a year ago on its first day, as heavy discounts lured bargain-hunting customers who splurged on appliances and toys, Adobe Analytics data on Wednesday showed.

Walmart-owned Flipkart on Friday announced that it will be distributing Axis Bank's personal loans on the e-commerce platform. The platform, which has 450 million customers, will be distributing loans of up to Rs 5 lakh which can be repaid in up to three years, it said in a statement.

The Indian government's open e-commerce network ONDC has expanded its operations into 236 cities in the country while adding more than 36,000 merchants, a senior company official said on Thursday. The government launched the Open Network for Digital Commerce (ONDC) last year to give small businesses and retailers access to processes and technologie...

Hackers have gained access to login credentials for data centers in Asia used by some of the world’s biggest businesses, including Apple, Microsoft, Walmart, Alibaba, Huawei, and BMW AG. A cybersecurity firm and executives at four major US-based companies that were affected said the stolen credentials represented an unusual and serious danger.

Amazon has halted plans to expand its Fresh supermarkets and cashier-less convenience stores as the company is still grasping for success with supermarkets, CEO Andy Jassy said a in a rare appearance on the company's quarterly results call. Jassy said the firm needs a distinctive store format that's doing well financially before embarking on a majo...

With the brand endorsed by popular Bollywood celebrities, Varun and Ghazal Alagh have cashed in on India's growing e-commerce adoption by offering its products on platforms such as Amazon and Walmart's Flipkart.

Amazon and Walmart's Flipkart have been issued with notices by the DCW asking why dangerous acids are available on their sites after a schoolgirl became the victim of an acid attack in Delhi. The Delhi Police had also issued a notice to Flipkart after it found that the acid was procured from the e-commerce firm.

The commerce and industry ministry on Friday said many more applications will join the Open Network for Digital Commerce (ONDC) in the coming weeks to expand both buyers and sellers who can participate in this platform. ONDC — the ministry's initiative to help small retailers and reduce the dominance of e-commerce giants — has opened to the pub...

WhatsApp Pay India head Manesh Mahatme has quit the company ahead of the service's plans to expand in the country and compete with Alphabet's Google Pay, Ant-backed Paytm, and Walmart's PhonePe. The executive, who joined the Meta-owned messaging service in April 2021, is said to have joined Amazon India as director of product in the company's e-com...

The Open Network for Digital Commerce (ONDC) — India’s e-commerce network to end the dominance of US companies Amazon and Walmart — will be soon open to the public, said an official, as per a report. The pilot phase for India’s domestic digital commerce initiative began in April. ONDC will provide platform and space to small merchants and r...

Microsoft has joined Open Network for Digital Commerce (ONDC) in India and plans to introduce social e-commerce in India. ONDC is a government initiative to reimagine digital commerce in India and Microsoft is the first big tech company to join the government-backed project.

Run off their virtual feet at the start of India's festival season, e-commerce companies like Amazon and Walmart owned Flipkart are looking forward to a potentially record breaking few weeks. Any lingering fears that inflation and higher interest rates would dampen consumers' spirit in Asia's third largest economy, are being rapidly dispelled.

The Chinese shopping app Temu has gained immense popularity worldwide, enticing customers with incredibly low prices for products shipped directly from China.

Indian e-commerce startup Meesho has posted its first-ever profit and is targeting a stock market listing in the next 12-18 months, a senior company executive said in an interview. Meesho competes with Amazon and Walmart's Flipkart in India's fast-growing e-commerce market, with its website becoming popular by targeting smaller towns and cities...

China's Xiaomi will focus on boosting its India sales from retail outlets after years of big bets on e-commerce, its India president said, as the company seeks to revive smartphone sales after falling behind South Korea's Samsung. 44 percent of India's smartphones sales are now online.

Amazon's Prime Day two-day shopping event saw U.S. online sales rise nearly 6% to $6.4 billion from a year ago on its first day, as heavy discounts lured bargain-hunting customers who splurged on appliances and toys, Adobe Analytics data on Wednesday showed.

Walmart-owned Flipkart on Friday announced that it will be distributing Axis Bank's personal loans on the e-commerce platform. The platform, which has 450 million customers, will be distributing loans of up to Rs 5 lakh which can be repaid in up to three years, it said in a statement.

The Indian government's open e-commerce network ONDC has expanded its operations into 236 cities in the country while adding more than 36,000 merchants, a senior company official said on Thursday. The government launched the Open Network for Digital Commerce (ONDC) last year to give small businesses and retailers access to processes and technologie...

Hackers have gained access to login credentials for data centers in Asia used by some of the world’s biggest businesses, including Apple, Microsoft, Walmart, Alibaba, Huawei, and BMW AG. A cybersecurity firm and executives at four major US-based companies that were affected said the stolen credentials represented an unusual and serious danger.

Amazon has halted plans to expand its Fresh supermarkets and cashier-less convenience stores as the company is still grasping for success with supermarkets, CEO Andy Jassy said a in a rare appearance on the company's quarterly results call. Jassy said the firm needs a distinctive store format that's doing well financially before embarking on a majo...

With the brand endorsed by popular Bollywood celebrities, Varun and Ghazal Alagh have cashed in on India's growing e-commerce adoption by offering its products on platforms such as Amazon and Walmart's Flipkart.

Amazon and Walmart's Flipkart have been issued with notices by the DCW asking why dangerous acids are available on their sites after a schoolgirl became the victim of an acid attack in Delhi. The Delhi Police had also issued a notice to Flipkart after it found that the acid was procured from the e-commerce firm.

The commerce and industry ministry on Friday said many more applications will join the Open Network for Digital Commerce (ONDC) in the coming weeks to expand both buyers and sellers who can participate in this platform. ONDC — the ministry's initiative to help small retailers and reduce the dominance of e-commerce giants — has opened to the pub...

WhatsApp Pay India head Manesh Mahatme has quit the company ahead of the service's plans to expand in the country and compete with Alphabet's Google Pay, Ant-backed Paytm, and Walmart's PhonePe. The executive, who joined the Meta-owned messaging service in April 2021, is said to have joined Amazon India as director of product in the company's e-com...

The Open Network for Digital Commerce (ONDC) — India’s e-commerce network to end the dominance of US companies Amazon and Walmart — will be soon open to the public, said an official, as per a report. The pilot phase for India’s domestic digital commerce initiative began in April. ONDC will provide platform and space to small merchants and r...

Microsoft has joined Open Network for Digital Commerce (ONDC) in India and plans to introduce social e-commerce in India. ONDC is a government initiative to reimagine digital commerce in India and Microsoft is the first big tech company to join the government-backed project.