E-commerce

First Look At Web18s Horizontal Portal In.com - 10 Comments
Posted By Nikhil Pahwa - Thu 15 May 2008 07:58 AM PST

While some have been saying that the horizontal portal is waning in influence, Web18, the internet company from the Network18 group is set to open its so-called-horizontal portal In.com for…

Alibaba.com And Infomedia Form Strategic Partnership in India; Why Am I On Indiamart? - 7 Comments
Posted By Nikhil Pahwa - Tue 29 Apr 2008 06:07 AM PST

I’ve noticed Alibaba.com advertisements on the Economic Times website over the past week, and sensed that something was up. This explains it: the China-based b2b classifieds portal has announced a…

Travel Roundup: Indiatimes-Cruise; Ixigo-Hotels; Cleartrip-Intl - 7 Comments
Posted By Nikhil Pahwa - Thu 10 Apr 2008 05:42 AM PST

-- Indiatimes Travel has inked a deal with the Mediterranean Shipping Company (MSC), Italy’s largest privately owned line, and has launched a cruise booking service for customers in India. Given…

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MakeMyTrip 2007 Sales At Rs. 1000 Crore; Break Even By Dec 2008 - 0 Comments
Posted By Nikhil Pahwa - Wed 09 Apr 2008 02:48 AM PST

Online Travel co MakeMyTrip has recorded sales of Rs. 1000 crore for the financial year ending March 2008, as per a release. The company, which claims a 45 percent marketshare…

MobileStore Launches Online Store - 3 Comments
Posted By Nikhil Pahwa - Mon 07 Apr 2008 04:21 AM PST

The MobileStore, the mobile retail JV between Virgin and the Essar Group has launched its online sales operations, reports ET. While the company plans to extend services across India, the…

Tata Indicom, Paymate Tie Up For Mobile Flight Ticketing - 1 Comment
Posted By Cerius Shah - Fri 28 Mar 2008 12:08 PM PST

Tata Indicom and Paymate have tied up to provide Indicom subscribers with flight ticketing services. The agreement is currently limited to domestic air tickets. Paymate has also partnered with Kingfisher…

HT Media’s Job Portal Shine.com Goes Live - 11 Comments
Posted By Nikhil Pahwa - Wed 26 Mar 2008 04:25 AM PST

HT Media’s job portal Shine.com has gone live...the tagline - “Shine is a place to grow”. The site, currently in beta, is at present accepting registration from job seekers. I…

Sulekha Plans For An IPO In 2009 - 9 Comments
Posted By Nikhil Pahwa - Sun 23 Mar 2008 09:34 PM PST

Sulekha.com, the grand-daddy of Indian community portals, which had raised $10 million from Norwest Venture Partners is considering an IPO in 2009. Business Standard reports that the company expects to…

Sherpalo Ventures And Kleiner Perkins Pick Up 15 Percent Stake In Futurebazaar.com - 6 Comments
Posted By Nikhil Pahwa - Thu 20 Mar 2008 02:32 AM PST

Sherpalo Ventures and Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers (KPCB) have together picked up 15 percent stake in the Future Group’s (Pantaloon) e-commerce portal Futurebazaar.com, Ram Shriram, founder of Sherpalo Ventures…

Agencyfaqs Launches Freelance Exchange; On Online Marketplaces - 3 Comments
Posted By Nikhil Pahwa - Thu 13 Mar 2008 10:31 AM PST

Agencyfaqs, a portal targeting advertising, media and marketing professionals has launched a classifieds marketplace called Freelance Exchange. It’s currently in beta, and by the looks of it, they will be…

Sequoia Capital Funded Apnaloan.com Launches Insurance Portal - 0 Comments
Posted By Nikhil Pahwa - Tue 11 Mar 2008 01:25 AM PST

Sequoia Capital funded company Apnaloan.com is launching a portal - Apnainsurance.com. I think the launch is timely, perhaps a little late, as the financial year is coming to a close.…

Expedia India Launches Indian Ops - 2 Comments
Posted By Nikhil Pahwa - Thu 06 Mar 2008 10:42 PM PST

Expedia India has announced the launch of its India operations, with Sharat Dhall as its Managing Director. The site Expedia.co.in (Expedia.in redirects to it) is currently focusing on hotel bookings…

Mobile Payment Roundup: Paymate-Sri Lanka; Barclays - USSD Based Services - 6 Comments
Posted By Nikhil Pahwa - Mon 03 Mar 2008 09:10 AM PST

-- PayMate becomes the second Indian mobile payment co to enter Sri Lanka: the company has tied up with Bank of Ceylon (BOC) for enabling bill payments - electricity, water…

Cleartrip Raises $18.5 Million From DFJ, Mahindra Group And Existing Investors - 3 Comments
Posted By Nikhil Pahwa - Thu 28 Feb 2008 03:19 AM PST

Cleartrip has raised a third round of funding of $18.5 million, led by Draper Fisher Jurvetson which has put in $10 million. The Mahindra Group and existing investors Sherpalo Ventures…

RBI To Finalize Regulatory Framework For Internet And Mobile Banking Soon - 0 Comments
Posted By Nikhil Pahwa - Wed 27 Feb 2008 09:14 PM PST

A committee looking into issues of Internet and mobile banking is expected to submit its report to the Reserve Bank of India in March, following which the central bank will…

Why Did BCCL Hive Off Times Business Solutions? Interview With CEO R. Sundar - 3 Comments
Posted By Nikhil Pahwa - Mon 25 Feb 2008 04:47 AM PST

The Times Group (BCCL), had hived off its classifieds business into a separate entity called Times Business Solutions Ltd (TBSL), and appointed R. Sundar as CEO and Rajiv Gaur as…

Telstra Eying Real Estate And Home Furnishing Site Acquisitions In China And India - 1 Comment
Posted By Nikhil Pahwa - Thu 21 Feb 2008 12:00 AM PST

Solomon Trujillo, CEO of Australia’s largest phone co Telstra has told Reuters that the company is interested in making acquisitions in online businesses in China and India, among others, to…

Travel Meta Search Ixigo Funded By BAF Partners - 5 Comments
Posted By Nikhil Pahwa - Wed 20 Feb 2008 08:47 PM PST

Ixigo.com, a travel meta search company, has received an undisclosed amount of funding from BAF Spectrum, a Singapore based investment fund. The funding was reported by VCCircle yesterday, and we…

Jupiter Media To Launch Image Sales Ops In India; Cautious About Media Business; Job Portal - 0 Comments
Posted By Nikhil Pahwa - Sun 17 Feb 2008 11:02 PM PST

Nasdaq listed Jupiter Media is taking a cautious approach to India: the company’s Chairman and CEO Alan Meckler was in India for a couple of days - his first trip…

ECA Expects Rs 225 Million From Online Art Auction - 1 Comment
Posted By Nikhil Pahwa - Wed 13 Feb 2008 08:57 PM PST

[by Cerius Shah] Husain and Raza seem to be the toast of the online art auction scene. Along with them, Tyeb Mehta, FN Souza and other artists will go under…

Myntra Ties Up With Ibibo, HolidayIQ For Personalized Merchandise - 0 Comments
Posted By Nikhil Pahwa - Mon 11 Feb 2008 08:44 AM PST

Erasmic Ventures funded startup Myntra, which creates personalized merchandise, has announced a tie-up with ibibo.com (MIH India), BCCL funded HolidayIQ. They claim they have 10 partners in all, but apparently…

Paymate Ties Up With Standard Chartered And Cosmos Bank For Mobile Payment - 4 Comments
Posted By Nikhil Pahwa - Mon 11 Feb 2008 07:34 AM PST

Mobile payment company Paymate has added two more banks to it’s list of partners: Standard Chartered and Cosmos Bank. Paymate already had a partnership with Citibank and Corporation Bank. Paymate…

Dice Exits Job Portal JV With Cybermedia - 4 Comments
Posted By Nikhil Pahwa - Fri 08 Feb 2008 02:31 AM PST

This just in: Dice Holdings has sold its stake in Cybermedia Dice Careers to Pradeep Gupta, the founder of speciality media house Cybermedia, a BSE listed entity. Cybermedia Dice Careers,…

Travel Roundup: Redbus-Multilingual, MMT, Cleartrip - Railway; Travelguru-Affiliate - 3 Comments
Posted By Nikhil Pahwa - Wed 06 Feb 2008 05:51 AM PST

-- redBus, an online bus ticketing company funded by Seedfund, has gone multilingual by launching Tamil, Kannada, Telugu, Malayalam and Hindi versions of their site. CEO Phanindra Sama says that…

Updated: Kijiji India To Be Jointly Owned By Ebay Inc And VC Fund Matrix Partners - 4 Comments
Posted By Nikhil Pahwa - Tue 05 Feb 2008 06:47 AM PST

Updated below Kijiji India, the Indian site for Ebay Inc’s general classifieds business, will now be jointly owned by by the company and VC fund Matrix Partners, as per a…