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Moneycontrol: Fabmall.com in association with Malayala Manorama, India’s Malayalam language daily, today launched their new online shopping site, www.manoramaemart.com. 
Speaking on the launch of the site Mr. Vaitheeswaran, COO of Fabmall.com said “This new site is a part of larger plan from Fabmall.com to bring in ‘focused’ shopping experiences for consumers around the world. As India’s [...]

Economic Times: Tata Motors may be looking to use the e-platform to sell its proposed Rs 1 lakh people’s car. But other auto majors feel e-sale is not a successful proposition beeing cars a high value product and lack of online presence of finance companies, which the route is taken by a majority of Indian [...]

Hindustan Times: Well the online world might be going ga ga over ecommerce and online retail but when one thinks about what do people buy on a daily basis in India? The first thing that comes to mind is vegetables! So can vegetables be sold online? Well are you pessimistic?? Don’t be because vegetable selling [...]

UPDATED 20th OCT: An article in Hindu has stated figures from IAMAI that online sales are expected to go up by more than 100 per cent. The online business conducted during Diwali last year was around Rs 115 crore which is expected to cross the Rs 250 crore mark this year. In normal months, 85 per [...]

With the advent of pay per click advertising and ecommerce booming in India smaller brands and small retailers having products for a niche segment are transcending geographical boundaries by using the Internet’s reach. Ecommerce has been given a boost with Ebay conducting ecommerce seminars. Also players like Indiatimes shopping and Rediff shopping have been pushing [...]

San Francisco-based retail chain GAP inc is testing, a ecommerce web site piperlime.com with 100 shoe brands ranging from $24 to $900. Gap generated online sales of about $600 million on its new site last year, making it the biggest specialty apparel chain online, according to Internet Retailer magazine. In the first half of 2006 [...]

DNA Money: Books were one of the few things that initiated ecommerce on the Web. Amazon was the first mover then. But in India it seems like the trend of selling booking through the online medium is catching on now with Indian bookstores finally getting serious about a presence in cyberspace. Within the next one [...]

The internet is seeing booming growth and the most benefited by this growth has been the e-ticketing and the e-commerce industries where new players are jumping on to the bandwagon to get a piece of the pie.
With almost 100 million tickets being sold online annually the potential of the online travel industry has been noticed [...]

Raj Travels is one of the oldest travel and tour operators based out of Mumbai and it also owns the online bus coach service Rajnationalexpress.in. Although it has not ventured into the online travel space (which is already getting very cluttered) but it is looking to launch an exclusive hotel booking site. Though there has [...]

Business Standard: As the India’s travel scene get super competitive and margins are squezzed in order to be the cheapest airline India’s airline companies are in the search for the all very important NTR (non-ticket revenues). Now Most airlines which already have a visible web presence and high traffic thanks to the boom in E-travel [...]

Firstly lets gets some statistics in place before we start talking about e-commerce.
Internet users will touch 100 million by 2007-08E-commerce Industry will see growth of 95% and will touch 2300 crores in 06-07
The Internet and Mobile Association of India (IAMAI) conducted a survey of 1240  customers who shop online and came up with the following [...]

The wait is over Pantaloon the company behind the huge retail chain Big Bazaar has launched its online shopping portal FutureBazaar.com. The site seems to be in soft launch mode as there has been no press release (none that i have come across) nor has there been any marketing online or offline. Its seems that [...]

Sabse bada rupaiya and Ebay seems to be exploiting this fact to the hilt and users seem to be realising that rupaiya can be earned through ebay. A new research released by eBay India, India’s leading online marketplace, shows that nearly 31% of eBay sellers or 12,800 Indian entrepreneurs including many businesses, make a primary [...]

Financial Express: On July 14, the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) asked a leading media organisation (TOI which recently launched Wallet365)  to “desist” from offering the e-wallet service. Currently there is very little regulation to keep a watch on this kind a service, afterall all you need is a credit or a debit card and an [...]

In a move which shows panic and fierce competitiveness at the same time Ebay has placed Google Checkout as a payment method that is unacceptable and banned from being used on ebay. This move is clearly a way to protect Paypal which is a Ebay owned payment gateway. This is just the beginning according to [...]