App Tracker: Which e-commerce app stands out from the crowd and why?

Last week we brought to you a no-holds-barred look at how the apps of OTAs stack up and this time around we are looking at how the popular e-commerce companies fight it out via their apps on the iOS and Android platforms. E-commerce has been one of the fastest growing online categories and a large ...

Sainul K Abudheen

Flipkart integrates marketplace with existing e-com platform, ropes in 50 sellers

India’s largest consumer e-commerce player Flipkart has taken the wraps off its marketplace which enables third party sellers to list their products on its website and sell directly to consumers. The marketplace has been integrated with the existing website just like Amazon, where the interface f...

Sonam Gulati

YouTube’s music videos now comes embedded with download link from Flipkart

Video streaming giant YouTube has added Flipkart to its ‘click-to-buy’ feature that runs along with music videos on the site, enabling users, especially in India, to have another option to buy legal digital content. YouTube already has Apple’s iTunes and Amazon’s MP3 store integrated with it...

Rashi Varshney

Flipkart enables international card transactions, excludes wallet top-up & Flyte payments

India’s largest consumer e-commerce player Flipkart has partnered with San Fransisco-based eCommerce payment management company CyberSource, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Visa Inc, to enable payment through credit/debit cards issued internationally. Now, consumers overseas will be able to make purc...

Rashi Varshney

Flipkart’s Delivery of Cash service, end of YouTube, Google’s Nose and other things you shouldn’t believe

You have heard of cash on delivery, but imagine if you could get delivery of cash (a la mobile ATM) or if Google can now enable you to smell things via your computer or phone screens. What if the largest online video streaming service YouTube is to shut down today. And not the least but [...]...

Team TC

Sachin Bansal on how Flipkart built a Rs 2,000Cr business in 5 years

At the recently concluded Techcircle E-Commerce Forum in Mumbai, Sachin Bansal, CEO and co-founder, Flipkart, shared key insights on how the company scaled up its business over the years and its acquisition plans going forward. He mentioned that Flipkart will raise a fresh round of funding before go...

Anand Rai

Excl: Flipkart to raise another round of private funding before going public, IPO 2-5 years away

India’s largest consumer e-commerce venture Flipkart will raise a fresh round of funding before going public and its much anticipated initial public offer (IPO) is 2-5 years away, according to Sachin Bansal, the co-founder and CEO of the company. Speaking at the Techcircle E-commerce Summit 2013 i...

Sonam Gulati

Flipkart plugs biggest missing category; takes on Jabong, Myntra by adding women’s apparel

Flipkart, the big daddy of Indian e-commerce, is back with its category expansion spree. This time it has entered a much more popular category by launching women’s apparel on its site. Flipkart, which currently offers 55 brands in the category, plans to increase the number to 100-120 in the next q...

Sonam Gulati

India 5th largest e-com market; Jabong getting more unique visitors than Amazon & Flipkart

The Indian digital market is growing fast even as the internet user base rose by 50 per cent. The latest data by comScore revealed that the total internet user base in India grew to 139 million (inclusive of all devices and touch points used to access the internet) in December 2012 – a burgeoning ...

Sainul K Abudheen

Flipkart CFO Karandeep Singh quits after just over a year

Karandeep Singh, chief financial officer of India’s largest e-commerce firm Flipkart Online Services Pvt Ltd, has left the company owing to personal commitments, even as the enforcement directorate (ED) is probing the firm for possible violation of FDI norms in multi-brand retailing. Singh has bee...