Online Retailers

E-commerce curbs: Snapdeal, Shopclues support govt's 1 February deadline, assure compliance

The government will from 1 February impose restrictions on how e-commerce firms operate, including barring them from selling products from firms in which they have an equity interest, leading to protests from Amazon and Flipkart.

Government may release second draft of e-commerce policy for public consideration in a fortnight

An initial draft of the proposed national e-commerce policy was circulated among stakeholders last month to receive their comments

Philips, Asus and two other firms fined by EU for imposing fixed online prices

Pioneer was also found by the EU to have sought to limit the ability of its retailers to sell across borders.

Smartphone users are spending more money every time they visit an online retail website says Adobe data

The Adobe Analytics data go on to state that the length of smartphone website visits has in fact gone down since 2015 by 10 percent.

WNS, Accertify To Provide Fraud Prevention Solutions

This partnership brings together Accertify's Intercepta, which sorts through suspicious transactions, with WNS' process expertise necessary for manual verification.

Demonetisation: Both Flipkart, Snapdeal now allow cash on delivery to improve sales

Both the ecommerce majors have resumed cash on delivery (COD) option for goods sold to customers on their marketplaces

Ecommerce war not over yet: Flipkart, Amazon to battle it out in run-up to Diwali

Flipkart, Amazon up their ante with exclusive deals, freebies as festival fever catches up

With the festival sales season ready to go live in the next 24 hours time, online retailers like Flipkart and Amazon are going extra mile to stitch exclusive deals with number of smartphone and TV companies

Big Billion Days sale: Flipkart keeps sellers on tight leash, wants them to offer 'genuine' discounts

Most of the online retailers are not just increasing spends on advertising and marketing for the mega event, but cajoling their sellers to push the discount envelope to attract customers and keep competitors at bay

No sales dhamaka for Flipkart, Snapdeal, et al this festival season

Analysts say the slowdown in sales was already evident during the first two quarters of this year mainly due to cut in advertising budgets and reduced discounting from the ecommerce players