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30 Oct

Matrimony Websites to touch 20mn subscribers in 2 years

By sinha 5 Comments
Matrimony Websites to touch 20mn subscribers in 2 years

Even though the Internet penetration in India stands at a dismal number (3%?), matrimony sites are emerging as one of the leading money making online businesses in India. As per a market research (called ‘A Web Partner for Life‘), the … Read More »

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04 Aug

Online Shopping in India: eBay India sells one product a min

By sinha 11 Comments
Online Shopping in India: eBay India sells one product a min

Indians are shopping online and as per eBay India’s latest numbers – eBay India is selling one product every minute. Hot selling products are not the most obvious ones – i.e. software/computer related etc, but it’s jewelery! It is jewelery … Read More »

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29 Jul

Zyoin : Job Referral portal from TechUnified Consulting

By sinha 12 Comments
Zyoin : Job Referral portal from TechUnified Consulting

The Indian job market is suddenly booming with referral sites and the latest to join them is Zyoin, a portal from techunified consulting group. The portal lets you: Compare your salary with others Refer friends Ask questions (i.e. QnA module … Read More »

   
01 Feb

Indians hopping onto Internet for job search

By sinha 3 Comments

Of all the business models that Indian startups paint, disintermediation is the only one that seems to have worked/is working in India. Be it the job market or marriage market, Indians have embraced Internet for meeting their basic needs (i.e. job … Read More »

   
09 Jan

“eCommerce industry in India as a whole has failed to “wow” customer..” Interview with CTO, IndiaTimes

By sinha 18 Comments

Darpan Munjal is CTO (eCommerce) @ IndiaTimes and is a veteran in ecommerce space. Prior to joining IndiaTimes, he was Divisional Vice President (eCommerce) at Sears and led several key initiatives that helped in taking the eCommerce business at Sears … Read More »

   
17 Dec

Alibaba to expand in India

By sinha 1 Comment
Alibaba to expand in India

eBay India gets a serious competition – China based Alibaba.com is set to expand aggressively in India. Alibaba recently raised $1.7 billion via IPO and plans to use ~60% of the fund raised for strategic acquisitions and global expansion. Alibaba … Read More »

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13 Dec

Classifi-ads : makaan launches clickpay for brokers, sulekha users can post ads via mobile

By sinha 4 Comments
Classifi-ads : makaan launches clickpay for brokers, sulekha users can post ads via mobile

The online classified market in on a roll and companies are trying to ease out the process for publishers and advertisers. Makaan.com has launched a new feature – ClickPay which enables property brokers to create their own banner ads (one … Read More »

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09 Oct

India Business Report: e-commerce industry to touch 9210 crore, online classifieds: 820, online travel: 7000 crores!

By sinha 7 Comments
India Business Report: e-commerce industry to touch 9210 crore, online classifieds: 820, online travel: 7000 crores!

The ecommerce industry in India is all set to touch Rs. 9210 crore by the end of FY08. (30% jump from Rs 7,080 crore in ’07). Here is the division, as per the survey conducted by the IAMAI and IMRB. … Read More »

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24 Sep

Online classifieds Industry in India – Naukri & Shaadi.com lead the way

By sinha 12 Comments
Online classifieds Industry in India - Naukri & Shaadi.com lead the way

I wrote earlier on how everybody is quitting naukri as well as getting married; and recently released comscore data (for the period of Feb-July ’07) of leading players in the online classifieds Industry in India just proves the point. Here … Read More »