The e-commerce world has been taken over by fashion and apparel websites which seem to sell every bit of available clothing under the sun at some very good prices! The pumping in of Venture Capital money in this segment of e-commerce has given rise to services which are paying close attention to style and modern clothing. However, the variety of clothes available on the Internet doesn’t solve the...

Online marketplace Tradus.com has acquired e-Commerce portal BuyThePrice.com. The financials of this deal haven’t been disclosed. Last year, Naspers, who own Tradus had invested Rs. 8.5 Crores (US$ 1.5 Million) in BuyThePrice. After the acquisition, the official web-address of BuyThePrice redirects users to a sub-domian, buytheprice.tradus.com. The homepage of the site, though reads, ‘Dear...

Ladyblush.com, an e-commerce portal for women has secured an undisclosed amount of funding from Bangkok-based VC fund Alpha Founders and others.  This is the first round of investment raised by Gurgaon based marketplace. According to the report, the raised funds will be used to increase workforce, expand product catalogue and invest in marketing and technology. Founded in 2012 by Rahul Sethi, Nagarjun...

E-Commerce portals have sprung up with amazing alacrity where it is difficult to keep a tab on so many portals. Hence relatively new e-Commerce website Pennyful.in has adopted a unique sign-up technique to entice customers to try it. Most sites deploy a standard login-creation process which either entitles entering a rather long list of boxes or signing up using Social Media login credentials. But...

Healthkart, the Indian e-commerce portal focused on selling health, fitness and beauty products seems to have received its series B round from Intel Capital and Sequoia Capital. According to NextBigWhat, the amount raised is $14 million. The split is rumored to be $8 million from Intel and the rest from Sequoia. There has been no official announcement as of now but there has been no emphatic denial...

Oliver and Marc Samwer, founders of Rocket Internet start-up incubator have teamed up with former Delivery Hero co-CEO Fabian Siegel  to start Global Founders Capital , a new $194 million fund for high-potential internet businesses. Global Founders Capital (GFC) will invest globally and across all stages from seed to growth stage companies. The fund will allow the Samwer Brothers to expand their...

The online monetary exchange for merchandise & other services, more commonly known as ecommerce & e-banking has indeed been gaining traction for quite some time now. However, the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) once highly supportive of the same, seems to have taken a cautionary stand. For safe & secure Electronic Payment Transactions, like RTGS, NEFT and IMPS, RBI has asked the banks to...

PayTM recently launched their online bus ticket booking section. Now they have a shipped a new feature which allows travelers who book their tickets on their service to track their buses in real time  before they board them. This feature works currently on GPS enabled buses only. The company says that this is the first time a commerce company has introduced this feature in the country. This feature...

Indian Railways Catering and Tourism Corporation (IRCTC) has evidently set its sights on becoming a much bigger e-Commerce player by offering much more products apart from tickets. IRCTC Managing Director R.K. Tandon was quoted saying, “We are discussing with existing firms in the e-commerce space to thrash out the details. This will help us monetize our registered user base of over 2 Crores”. What...

E-commerce is booming in India and we at WATBlog have been diligently following the trends of this particular industry. A strikingly new and interesting dimension to the e-commerce industry is the rise of Facebook as an ‘online store’.  While people are getting bored of the ‘usual’ aspects of Facebook, the reach and potential of this social media giant cannot be denied or underestimated. Given...