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Govt may tighten 'country of origin' norms for e-commerce players

E-commerce policy expected to be finalised by end of June

Could government-run GeM be a candidate for listing on Indian bourses?

If the listing does happen, the scale could be comparable to what the LIC public issue will be in the insurance sector

Competition law in digital platform era

Are we running a cricket match using football rules?

Delhivery raises $275 million funding, valuation rises to over $3 billion

Delhivery on Monday said it has raised USD 275 million in a primary funding round, led by Fidelity Management and Research Company

Flipkart begins Covid-19 vaccinations for its front-line staff in India

The Walmart-backed e-commerce firm has relaxed the deadline for this year's goal-setting so that employees can completely focus on their health and well being.

Waiting periods go up for e-commerce deliveries amid second Covid wave

Apart from lockdowns acting as a deterrent, extra precautions are being taken by e-commerce companies while packaging to ensure hygiene and sanitation, which often pushes up delivery timelines

Amazon expects spring windfall as US economy reopens, posts record profits

Amazon said it expects operating income for the current quarter to be between $4.5 billion and $8 billion, which assumes about $1.5 billion of costs related to Covid-19

A fair and essential policy for retailers

E-commerce players must be allowed to ship non-essential items as there is no room for favouritism in govt policy in a pandemic

Jeff Bezos' big bang theories

Book review of Working Backwards: Insights, Stories and Secrets from Inside Amazon

Explained: How Amazon future CEO Andy Jassy became Jeff Bezos' shadow

Andy Jassy, AWS CEO and incoming CEO, Amazon, says it is very early days, with respect to what Amazon is hoping to enable for customers in India

Covid-19 curfews: Nasscom says laptops and chargers are 'essential'

In its letter to the MIDC, Nasscom has stressed the need for a clarification while stating that e-commerce companies must be allowed to deliver all goods and services

Flipkart V-P and group general counsel Bijoya Roy quits e-commerce giant

Roy has joined French spirits group, Pernod Ricard, as general counsel for South Asia and will take up the new role on April 12, 2021, according to the sources

RBI gives payment firms 6-month breather to comply with new framework

Earlier, the RBI had asked the payment aggregators to stop storing card details within their database as per its March 2020 guidelines that were to take effect from July this year

Leading private banks to cancel auto-debit payments from April 1

RBI to fine Rs 5 lakh per instance of lapse. Given that millions of bank customers use the auto-debit facility, banks were staring at hundreds of crores in fines

Competition in e-tail: Fair or unfair?

The e-commerce foreign direct investment policy doesn't sit well with the concept of competition

Amazon acquires Perpule for over Rs 107 cr to boost its tech for kiranas

Perpule provides UltraPOS is a cloud-based, mobile POS system that substantially improves the billing and checkout process at stores

Startup of the year: Freshworks aims to become a $1-bn company in 5 years

Freshworks has set its sights on increasing revenue to over $1bn inthe next five years as it prepares to take advantage of the vast untapped SaaS market

Social e-commerce platform CityMall raises $11 mn in new funding round

CityMall will use the funds to strengthen its supply chain, logistics and expand to 20 new cities.

Creative minds that rode global brands to build businesses amid Covid

E-commerce giants Etsy and Amazon have been very supportive of these entrepreneurs, who sell anything from jewellery made from concrete, to maternity gowns, to premium decals for tiles and walls

Kabeer Biswas and team pulled Dunzo out of Covid, aim to go global

The Google-backed delivery and e-commerce firm is planning to expand its services to about 25 such cities in India from about 8 cities and is also looking to go global and tap dense locations