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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
Flipkart raises $700 mn in fresh funding; files for Singapore listing
20 Dec 2014
The fresh investments, raised from Baillie Gifford, Greenoaks Capital, Steadview Capital, T Rowe Price Associates, Qatar Investment Authority, DST Global, GIC, ICONIQ Capital and Tiger Global, takes the number of Flipkart investors to over 50
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
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
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
Uber Technologies raises $1.2-bn to boost its international expansion
05 Dec 2014
With the current private funding, Uber is preparing for the next mammoth initial public offering, following in the footsteps of Facebook and Alibaba
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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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