LeEco launched its ‘Made for India’ smartphone Le 1s Eco on Tuesday and immediately started taking registrations on Flipkart for the first flash sale. Today, the company sent a press note claiming that it has received 1 lakh registrations in just 24 hours, which is equal to the number of units that will be available for purchase in the first sale. Continue reading “LeEco Le 1s Eco gets 100,000 registrations on Flipkart in 24 hours”
Punit Soni, has quit his position as Flipkart’s Chief Product Officer, according to a report from the Economic Times. Continue reading “Flipkart’s Chief Product Officer Punit Soni quits”
Flipkart has acquired PhonePe, a Bangalore based mobile payments start-up for an undisclosed sum.
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With an aim to up its game in the fiercely competitive e-commerce market, Flipkart is looking forward to secure a whopping $1 billion in a latest round of funding, according to a report from Tech Crunch.
Continue reading “Flipkart eyeing upto $1 billion in funding, valuation expected to be downsized”
If you are someone who has invested a lot of money into a large screen TV for your home but find that it lacks “smart functionality”, you are probably on the lookout for a device that can breathe new life into it. That is where streaming sticks come in and the HALFTICKET is a newer entrant to the scene. On paper, it seems like a winner, but how does it fare in the real world scenario? Let’s find out.
At a time when the market is filled with numerous types of wallets, Flipkart is bringing a new digital wallet. Dubbed as Flipkart Money, the wallet lets you get instant refunds, make quick payments and also allows easy withdrawals.
Flipkart is pulling the plug on its hyper-local service Nearby within mere five months of its launch. The e-tailer had launched the online grocery delivery app as an experiment in Bangalore.
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Two of the biggest online market places in India – Flipkart and Amazon.in are taking a step further to get more sellers to their platform. Flipkart has announced the nation-wide launch of a new cataloguing and listing service dubbed as Spotlist. The new initiative aims to bring sellers including SMEs, artisans and other businesses with instant access to list their products on Flipkart.
Continue reading “Flipkart’s Spotlist and Amazon.in’s Tatkal aims to bring SMBs online”
Mukesh Bansal, Flipkart’s head of commerce and founder of Myntra has announced his exit from the company. In addition, Chief Business Officer at Flipkart Ankit Nagori is also leaving the company.
Amazon.in has scheduled the ‘Great Indian Sale’ that will be held between 21st January – 23rd January 2016 while Flipkart has organized the Republic Day Sale from 20th January-22nd January.
Flipkart has launched its shopping app for Windows 10 PCs and mobile devices, which promises richer, seamless experience across Windows 10 devices. Flipkart said that it has worked closely with the Microsoft team to develop the app for a universal Windows platform.
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It is that time of the year when Google reveals the most searched events, people and things that were on top of its search list. In case of India, Flipkart topped as the most searched thing on Google while YU Yureka was the most searched mobile device.
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In a bid to bolster its delivery operations, Flipkart has picked up minority stake in digital maps provider MapmyIndia. The financial details of the deal were not disclosed.
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YU Televentures has just announced a new partnership with Reliance Retail that will put their smartphones on sale at physical offline retail stores across the country.
Flipkart has launched a mobile website called as Flipkart Lite. The website is a toned down version of the desktop website and its mobile app.
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