Retail
Flipkart to ride eBay to markets in nearly 200 countries
22 Aug 2017
Flipkart will be able to tap over 170 million active customers of eBay globally under an exclusive agreement, which allows them to jointly pursue cross-border trade opportunities
Walmart-Amazon race takes to skies with blimp warehouse patents
19 Aug 2017
Walmart has applied for a US patent for a warehouse in the sky, which could make deliveries to shoppers' homes by way of drones
Flipkart becomes world’s third-most funded private firm
12 Aug 2017
India’s ecommerce leader Flipkart has become the third most-funded private company globally, after ride hailing platformsChina-based Didi Chuxing and US-based Uber
Snapdeal 2.0: 80% of employees may see pink slip
01 Aug 2017
Snapdeal, Flipkart call off merger deal
01 Aug 2017
The decision follows objections raised by Snapdeal's smaller investors on the terms of the deal and payouts and the emergence of an alternative `Snapdeal 2.0’ strategy
Snapdeal-Flipkart merger may not happen after all
31 Jul 2017
A meeting scheduled for today to close the buyout of Snapdeal by Flipkart has been cancelled, as Snapdeal founders Kunal Bahl and Rohit Bansal seem keen to revive it as a leaner, meaner ‘Snapdeal 2.0’
Snapdeal sale around corner as Jasper okays Flipkart offer
27 Jul 2017
The buyout deal is almost through but the board wants to take a broader consensus from its major shareholders, including Ratan Tata and PremjiInvest, reports said
FTC probes complaints of Amazon’s discounts
21 Jul 2017
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The Rise and Rise of HDFC Bank
03 Jul 2023
HDFC, which surged ahead of global majors like HSBC Holdings Plc and Citigroup Inc and left Indian peers like State Bank of India and ICICI Bank in market capitalisation, now ranks fourth largest among the world’s most valuable banks, after JPMorgan Chase & Co, Industrial and Commercial Bank of China Ltd and Bank of America Corp
India’s Millet Revolution To Enrich Global Food Basket
02 Apr 2023
Millets, a healthier and cheaper substitute to wheat and rice, are indigenous to many parts of the world, especially in the semiarid tropics of Asia and Africa, and offers a big scope for expanding production and consumption in the foodgrain deficient African continent
Market predator Hindenburg preys on Adani stock
06 Mar 2023
Almost a month after the damning report of short-seller Hindenburg Research on the Adani Group that claimed that the seven stocks within the group were about 85 per cent overvalued, one of the group's stocks, Adani Total Gas, closed at Rs835 on the BSE, down nearly 79 per cent from its 24 January level, almost close to reaching that valuation
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