Chinese firm Pinduoduo, an ambitious rival of e-commerce giant Alibaba, plans to raise about $1.5 billion from Wall Street to fund its expensive expansion. The Shanghai-based company, which specialises in the sale of very low-priced goods, said in a stock market filing Tuesday that it intends to issue some 37 million new shares while stockholders […]
Zynga CEO says turnaround is now complete as it beats Q4 estimates
The Zynga logo is pictured at the company’s headquarters in San Francisco, California April 23, 2014. REUTERS/Robert Galbraith/File Photo Zynga CEO Frank Gibeau said on Wednesday that the company’s turnaround is now complete as it forecast quarterly bookings above analysts’ estimates after beating expectations for the fourth quarter, indicating that the game developer was benefiting […]
Oyo to enter US market
After recently closing $1 billion fund-raise by SoftBank, Oyo has stepped on the gas in terms of expansion on foreign soil. Besides, the new market of US, it is also present in the UK, Indonesia, Nepal, and Sri Lanka among others. TNN | February 07, 2019, 08:38 IST
Flipkart in talks to list offline players as sellers on platform
The logo of India’s e-commerce firm Flipkart is seen in this illustration picture taken January 29, 2019. REUTERS/Danish Siddiqui/Illustration Flipkart is in talks with a host of offline retailers as well as distributors of Samsung, Xiaomi and FMCG products to enrol them as sellers on its platform, to push sales while staying within the new […]
Amazon Retail ups ‘pantry’ play after clarity on FDI
Amazon has scaled up its wholly owned food retail business, Amazon Retail India, as the main seller of food and grocery products on the marketplace’s online supermarket, Amazon Pantry. This follows the government having clarified that companies with foreign direct investment (FDI) in food retail can continue to sell through ecommerce, two senior industry executives […]
While Indian tech cos support Intermediary Guidelines, US firms stand opposed
Indian and US technology companies were sharply opposed in their responses to the government’s proposal to amend intermediary guidelines that dilute safe harbours given to internet platforms in order to curb fake news and rumours. Reliance Jio, Sharechat and Indiatech.org, which represents Indian companies such as Hike, Ola and MakeMyTrip, supported most of the amendments, […]
Key Amazon seller Cloudtail returns in a new avatar
Cloudtail, the largest seller on Amazon’s India website that suspended operations about a week ago, is making a comeback on Thursday after restructuring its ownership so that it is no longer a group company of the marketplace. NR Narayana Murthy’s Catamaran Ventures has increased its stake in Cloudtail’s parent company Prione Business Services to 76% […]
Congress unit says intermediary guidelines violate fundamental rights
The All India Professionals’ Congress, a unit of the Congress party, registered its protests to the government’s proposal to mandate social media companies to trace messages back to the originator and assist law-enforcement or take down content without a judicial order, calling it violative of the fundamental rights to privacy and freedom of expression. The […]
India is wise to curb big tech’s monopolistic ways
By Vivek Wadhwa PayPal co-founder Peter Thiel openly exposes one of tech industry’s darket secrets: it likes to build monopolies. Competition is for losers, he says, because it limits profits. He posits capitalism and competition as opposites, on the basis that “capitalism is premised on the accumulation of capital, but under perfect competition, all profits […]
Policy should be consistent, else it creates havoc: Binny Bansal
One of the country’s top Internet entrepreneurs, Flipkart cofounder Binny Bansal, denounced the revised framework for foreign investment in the Indian ecommerce sector, saying small startups and early-stage companies were being adversely hit by the new rules. The new regulations come in the way of innovation and company creation, along with being a deterrent for […]