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Three months on, GST now good for small traders

New Delhi: India announced a significant revamp of the goods and services tax (GST) regime three months after it was rolled out, addressing key complaints, especially those of small-scale industry and exporters.  The GST Council raised the composition scheme threshold to Rs 1 crore from Rs 7…

SAP ‘Leonardo’ to help Indian SMEs join digital economy: President & MD

Mumbai: With the digital India initiative firmly in place, enterprise solutions provider SAP is ready to not only enable the integration of small and medium enterprises (SMEs) into the digital economy but also help big firms bolster their networks to derive competitive advantage, a top company ex…

Oracle eyes Indian artificial intelligence start-ups

American tech giant Oracle on October 5 announced the first batch of startups for its Startup Cloud Accelerator programme in New Delhi and Mumbai. The selected young ventures are using technologies such as artificial intelligence and Internet of Things to solve problems such as diagnosing di…

Tata Capital & Capital Float join hands to fund small businesses

Tata Capital has entered into an agreement with Capital Float to provide Working Capital Loans to financially under-served Small & Medium Enterprises (SMEs) in India. Tata Capital will be co-lending on Capital Float’s digital lending platform and through this relationship, both the companies …

e-Commerce platforms make way for SMEs to trade goods

Planning to simplify hurdles encountered by small vendors to display products online, many e-commerce marketplaces are providing incentives to fill the gap by delivering products and eliminating intermediaries from the SMEs (small and medium enterprises) to users. The C2C (customer-to-customer) m…