E-business
eBay to buy payment processor Braintree for $800 million
27 Sep 2013
US online retailer eBay Inc is buying Chicago-based payment processing company Braintree Payment Solutions, for $800 million in cash, in order to boost its PayPal unit's mobile commerce business
Argos and eBay in retail pilot pact
25 Sep 2013
India to clarify rules on e-commerce soon
31 Aug 2013
Facebook readying mobile payments service
16 Aug 2013
New PayPal app gives new meaning to ‘face value’
08 Aug 2013
Amazon to hire 5,000 to meet growing demand
29 Jul 2013
Mobile commerce is the new battlefield for retailers
03 Jul 2013
As smartphone use spreads rapidly, mobile ‘showrooming’ is the new mantra and retailers who fail to adapt to this trend will be left behind, says Vishwanath Alluri, founder and executive chairman, IMImobile
Online retail sales grow 1.9 per cent in UK
21 Jun 2013
Australian online sales reach A$237 bn
21 Jun 2013
Europe leads US in e-commerce: Internet Retailer
17 Jun 2013
Online sales in Europe, which has no sellers operating across the continent as yet, crossed $300 billion in 2012, while the US, which boasts of some global e-commerce majors, lagged with online sales of $225.54 billion during the year
Unable to sell direct, Amazon India looks for tie-ups with retail chains
08 Jun 2013
Online retail giant Amazon, which entered India this week, plans to enter into selling partnership with several leading brick-and-mortar retail chains
After eBay deal, Snapdeal.com raises another $40mn
06 Jun 2013
This is the largest institutional funding in India's e-commerce sector this year, and coincides with the entry of online retail giant Amazon into the Indian market.
Amazon follows Google into global doorstep grocery delivery business
By By Jagdeep Worah | 05 Jun 2013
Amazon.com Inc is planning a major roll-out of its online grocery business AmazonFresh across global markets, including North America, in a move that it has been quietly developing for years. By Jagdeep Worah
Amazon enters India's buy-sell e-market
05 Jun 2013
Amazon's entry as a buy-sell site gets it into head-on competition with not only pure retailers like FlipKart and others but other buy-and-sell companies like e-Bay and OXL
Amazon launches ”Login with Amazon”
30 May 2013
After Google, Amazon under fire for ‘pathetic’ UK tax contribution
20 May 2013
Amazon’s UK subsidiary paid just £2.4 million in corporate taxes last year, on sales of as much as £4.3 billion, but recieved 2.5 million in government grants
US Senate to vote on online sales tax bill
22 Apr 2013
The US Senate will vote on a bill that would give local governments additional revenue by charging sales tax on all internet purchases, adding up to $11 billion to states' coffers every year
EBay reports Q1 sales of $3.75 bn
18 Apr 2013
Vodafone India, ICICI Bank launch ‘M-Pesa’
18 Apr 2013
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Lighter than air, yet very, very powerful
By Kiron Kasbekar | 03 Jan 2024
In March 2013 Chinese scientists pulled off a remarkable feat. They created the world’s lightest aerogel. Tipping the scales at a mere 0.16 milligrams per cubic centimeter – that’s a sixth of the weight of air!
COP28 explained: A closer look at COP28's climate change solutions
By Aniket Gupta | 27 Dec 2023
The 28th United Nations Climate Change Conference, also known as COP28, took place from 30th November 2023, to 13th December 2023, at Expo City in Dubai, United Arab Emirates.
What is a Ponzi scheme?
By Aniket Gupta | 06 Dec 2023
Ponzi schemes have long captivated the public imagination, drawing unsuspecting investors into a web of illusion and deception.
The Rise and Rise of HDFC Bank
03 Jul 2023
HDFC, which surged ahead of global majors like HSBC Holdings Plc and Citigroup Inc and left Indian peers like State Bank of India and ICICI Bank in market capitalisation, now ranks fourth largest among the world’s most valuable banks, after JPMorgan Chase & Co, Industrial and Commercial Bank of China Ltd and Bank of America Corp
India’s Millet Revolution To Enrich Global Food Basket
02 Apr 2023
Millets, a healthier and cheaper substitute to wheat and rice, are indigenous to many parts of the world, especially in the semiarid tropics of Asia and Africa, and offers a big scope for expanding production and consumption in the foodgrain deficient African continent
Market predator Hindenburg preys on Adani stock
06 Mar 2023
Almost a month after the damning report of short-seller Hindenburg Research on the Adani Group that claimed that the seven stocks within the group were about 85 per cent overvalued, one of the group's stocks, Adani Total Gas, closed at Rs835 on the BSE, down nearly 79 per cent from its 24 January level, almost close to reaching that valuation
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