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Paytm’s Yatra To Online Travel Business?
Mcommerce platform, Paytm, is planning to pick up stake in Gurgaon-based travel portal, Yatra.com, reported TOI. According to the report, Paytm has held a couple of rounds of talks with Yatra and...
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IDG May Pull Out Of Flipkart: MarkDown Effect Or Routine Exit?
When US-based hedge fund Morgan Stanley, a key investor in Flipkart, marked down the ecommerce site’s valuation from $15 Bn to $11 Bn, a few called it the beginning of the much-discussed “bubble...
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DIPP Guidelines: Death Knell For The Big Discounting Era Or Are There Loopholes?
Last October, when Flipkart launched Big Billion Day, it sold over 10 lakh products in a matter of 10 hours, with 25 items being sold every second. Around the same time, Snapdeal launched its Home...
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Decoding The Online Sexual Wellness Industry In India
The adult products industry or the sexual wellness industry, as it is better known, is a multi-billion dollar industry globally, and is expected to grow to $ 52 Bn by 2020. In the last couple of years,...
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Wondering How To Fuel Your Startup With Govt Loans? Here’s How We Did It
Every startup mag and blog discusses funding startup with investors. I don’t find too much about funding with the help of loans. Yes, it has its own drawbacks. It increases the personal risk on...
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Portea Acquires Home Medical Equipment Service Provider Health Mantra
Bangalore-based home healthcare firm, Portea Medical, has acquired home medical equipment service provider, Health Mantra India Pvt Ltd. in an undisclosed cash and stock deal. The development will help...
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Amazon To Open Biggest Campus Outside of US In Telangana; Makes Fresh...
Amazon India has announced to infuse fresh investments in Telangana to launch as the biggest campus in India and largest campus outside the US. The company will start working on its new campus in...
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Why Is It Hard For EdTech Startups To Sell To Schools?
There’s a lot that technology and innovation can do to disrupt and improve the education system in India, and indeed, in other parts of the world. Quite a few startups in the education sector have...
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With 3 Mn Users In 2 Years, Here’s How Money View Is Changing Fintech For Good
‘Beware of little expenses; a small leak will sink a great ship.” -Benjamin Franklin And yet it is these little expenses occurring on a daily basis that become hard to keep track of! Even for the...
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Droom Partners With Carnation To Launch ‘Eco’ An Auto Inspection App For...
Gurgaon-based online automobile marketplace, Droom, has launched an auto inspection app Eco. The app was launched in association with Carnation Auto and is aimed at improving the transparency and...
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DIPP Releases FAQs To Help Startups
The tax benefits announced by the government for budding entrepreneurs, with an annual turnover of less than INR 25 Cr., will be available from April 1. To help these entrepreneurs, Department of...
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Now Gujarat Government To Impose Tax On Ecommerce Goods
The Gujarat government has passed a bill to levy entry tax on goods purchased through ecommerce portals. The Gujarat Tax on Entry of Specified Goods into Local Areas (Amendment) Bill, 2016, was passed...
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Temporary Relief For Cab Aggregators, Supreme Court Gives A Month To Switch...
The Supreme Court has extended the deadline for private cab aggregators to switch to CNG vehicles. Earlier, court had imposed a ban on plying diesel cabs in Delhi from April 1. Now cab-aggregators have...
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Updated: Flipkart Acquires Mobile Payments Solution Startup PhonePe
Flipkart has reportedly acquired Bangalore-based mobile payment startup PhonePe for an undisclosed amount. PhonePe was conceptualised in 2015 by former Flipkart employees Sameer Nigam, Burzin Engineer...
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DIPP Launches Startup India Website; App To Be Launched Later Today
While Prime Minister Narendra Modi has left the country again on a jet plane (this time to Europe), his bureaucrats back home seem to be incessantly working towards making India a better country for...
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FDI In Ecommerce: A Case Of Running With The Hare And Hunting With The Hounds?
The much-anticipated policy announcement of the Government of India clarifying FDI in Ecommerce through Press Note 3 of 2016 on 29th March 2016 is finally out. “Ecommerce” enters the regulatory...
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Planning Your Startup Hiring
Starting a startup is not particularly easy, because of a hell lot of risks involved. But once you do that and do it well, it’s time to find the best people who will work for you, without burning a lot...
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Matchmaking App Dil Mil Raises $2.7 Mn In Pre-Series A Round
Dil Mil, a matchmaking app, has raised $2.7 Mn in its Pre-Series A round of funding from a clutch of investors, reported ET. Investors participated in this round include Nelstone Ventures, Transmedia...
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FDI In Ecommerce: Protectionism Voted Up, Innovation Voted Down
Advising companies and investors in the ecommerce space has been bread and butter for most corporate lawyers over the past few years. As such, there has been little ambiguity on how foreign investment...
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Breaking: 100 Ecommerce Companies Team Up To Protest Against DIPP Over New...
Ever since DIPP has formulated the FDI ecommerce policies, it became a heated topic of debate among different sections of the startup ecosystem. On one side, government is announcing different policies...
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