Retail
EBay Inc plans to split into three companies
22 Jan 2015
US discount retailer Target to abandon Canada
19 Jan 2015
Amazon sellers sold 2 billon items in 2014
06 Jan 2015
Amazon says the growth of mobile and the introduction of the Amazon Seller App had had helped boost sales for merchants this year
Walgreens completes Alliance Boots acquisition
03 Jan 2015
Snapdeal in talks to buy online inventory and order tracking start-up Unicommerce
18 Dec 2014
The move comes less than two months after Japanese telecom and media group SoftBank agreed to invest $627 million in Snapdeal for a 30-per cent stake, making it the single-largest investment in an e-commerce company
Ikea set to double Indian sourcing, open furniture stores
11 Dec 2014
As it prepares to open its first store in the country, Ikea, the world’s largest furniture retailer, plans to double sourcing of home furnishing products from India by 2020
US electronics retailer Best Buy to exit China
04 Dec 2014
Fierce competition from local retailers and a flourishing online retail business have led foreign retailers to abandon the Chinese market - Best Buy joins Metro and Home Depot in shutting shop and Carrefour mulling an exit
Featured articles
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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