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Recap–The Ecommerce Fortnight That Was [Acquisition, Funding, BigDaddy and more]

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What a start for 2012! While 2011 witnessed a big boom in ecommerce funding, 2012 is when we will witness the stories that will differentiate the boys from men (no sexism please). More than $400mn was poured in ecommerce businesses … Read More »

11 Feb

What sells in online grocery category? Customers spend twice as much on cleaning toilet over teeth

By sinha No comments

The time slot 12-1 PM is the most popular time slot for our customers to buy. Expenses on diapers is 10 times of what it is on infant food. How do you explain that input/output balance Bangalore? Read More »

10 Feb

Breaking: Amazon Gets Approval to Setup its Courier Service in India

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In between all those ecommerce ‘for sale’ stories, Indian government has granted Amazon approval to setup its logistics service in India (we earlier reported Amazon’s application to setup its courier service in India in the month odf December, 2011) Amazon … Read More »

09 Feb

Letsbuy and Flipkart – A marriage of INCONVENIENCE!!

By Alok Kejriwal No comments

My question is, how many other marriages with suicidal women will flipkart.com, or for that matter, any other healthy business Start Up manage to consummate??? Read More »

09 Feb

How Not to Build a Product: Review of Rediff Real Time News Service

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But that defeats the purpose of the news site – i.e. if I already know what I am looking for, then what the hell am I doing here? After all, you visit a news site for information about things you probably don’t know. Read More »

07 Feb

Orkut Launches Support for Hashtags

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Orkut, the web1.0 social network from Google has launched support for hashtags. “From now on, whenever you’re reading a topic, all hashtags will be automatically highlighted and will link to improved search page, where other posts with the same tag … Read More »

06 Feb

Five Google+ Stats for India You Should Know [86%males, Delhi most active]

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India is among the top 2 nations for Facebook and the story doesn’t seem to be very different for Google+. Gender Distribution While Facebook boasts of a ‘healthy’ ratio (27% female, 73% males), Google+ is highly skewed towards male population, … Read More »

04 Feb

Of Product discovery, Smaller Retailers and Junglee

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Amazon took a totally orthogonal path with it’s entry into e-commerce in India. It has been speculated that they tried to buy Flipkart, been busy building a warehouse, instead launched as a gatekeeper to products with discovery and comparison site … Read More »

03 Feb

This is why Amazon’s Junglee is gonna SMASH the B**ls of Indian e-Commerce players

By Alok Kejriwal No comments

Ever since Amazon’s Junglee is live, we are hearing of different kind of feedback from consumers. Some think Amazon has gotten deep into ‘niche players’ and has done a much better job of product discovery/comparison and for others, they are busy finding minor faults in the service. Read More »