Blekko Creates New Search Vertical For Shopping – /safeshop

by | posted: November 30, 2010
Just yesterday, we wrote about the NYtimes article that highlighted a possible point of pain for Google’s advanced search algorithms. And given that it happened just before Cyber Monday, the timing...
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Google’s Search Armour Has A Chink!

by | posted: November 29, 2010
A lot of us blindly put our faith in Google’s search results. After all, they are the best right? But as we’ve hinted in some posts, being the best is not quite the same as being perfect. And...
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uRead.com Wants To Revive Book-Reading!

by | posted: November 19, 2010
uRead.com has launched with the aim of reviving/imbibing reading habits into the ‘net savvy’. The site boasts of a database of over 6 million books and has set itself the ambitious target of...
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Axel Springer AG Acquires 70.4% In CarWale.com & 19.1% In BagItToday.com

by | posted: November 10, 2010
Carwale.com one of the leading car portals in India has announced that it has entered into an agreement to be acquired by Axel Springer AG and their Indian partners, the India Today Group. It is stated...
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Online Couponing – The Rising Star For E-Commerce?

by | posted: October 21, 2010
E-Commerce as an Industry is one which hasn’t hit the right notes in India inspite the aggressive growth of social networking in the recent past. So there might be millions of users logging on...
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Future Group To Spend 12 crore On FutureBazaar.com

by | posted: October 2, 2010
It seems like the confidence in e-commerce and its potential is back. With all the group buying portals mushrooming all over existing e-commerce portals have taken a note of their deals oriented model....
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On a New Internet High – Indian SMBs

by | posted: July 14, 2010
Over a decade ago, Internet was deemed as a sensation in India, most often used for entertainment purposes amongst youth. I, for one, employed most of my leisure time in chatting, sending senseless e-mails...
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FlipKart Raises 10 Million $ From Tiger Global – Expands Beyond Books

by | posted: June 16, 2010
Flipkart the online books retail portal recently forayed beyond books by adding CDs & DVDs of Movies, Music and Games to its offering. This expansion comes at a time when VCCircle reports a funding...
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Content Vs Commerce – The Dual Challenge Of Monetization For Digital Media

by | posted: May 24, 2010
If there are two sources of revenue or two types of business model that have been long prevalent in the digital media space they have been either content business models i.e. provide content and charge...
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EBay India Introduces EBay Guarantee – Refund/Replacement On All Transactions

by | posted: April 27, 2010
This one is quite a surprise coming from an auctions site. Though ebay India unlike its western counterpart could be termed more as an ecommerce site. eBay India has introduced a new feature of  ‘eBay...
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Are Indians ‘Buying on The Web’?

by | posted: January 28, 2010
Times of India reports that the buying pattern of Indian consumers has changed with time, more so for the good of companies who run their business over the web. Alibaba, recently conducted a search over...
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B2C Shopping Portal BuyThePrice.com Soon To Be Launched – Will Focus On Price Work?

by | posted: January 13, 2010
Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Teach him to gamble and you’ll get him shop online for lifetime. We recently studied how the online gambling market is shaped up in India, and what it...
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1 Billion Mobile Internet Users – 1/3 Of World To Have Accessed Internet By 2013 : IDC Report

by | posted: December 10, 2009
The next 4 years is set to be the golden period for Internet growth the world over and as expected th access to internet via mobile is set to be the driving force for the growth. As of this year there...
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Metro Shoes Launches Shopping Portal – Will Metro Shoes Be India’s Zappos.com?

by | posted: December 1, 2009
Last few days we have done an extensive coverage of digital commerce and the challenges it faces as pointed out by the IAMAI panels. One of the needs of digital commerce pointed out by the panelists was...
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Is Ecommerce Driving Value? Panel discussion @ IAMAI Conference On Digital Commerce

by | posted: December 1, 2009
B Muralikrishnan, Director – Categories and Product, eBay India moderated the session titled, Is E-Commerce driving value? He started out pointing that Ecommerce is all about Price benefit for the...
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‘Building The Digital Commerce Ecosystem’ – Need Of The Hour

by | posted: November 30, 2009
The first of the series of panel discussions was on Building the Digital Commerce Ecosystem, Amitabh Pandey, resident and Head eBusiness, Thomas Cook moderated the session. He started the discussion with...
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