Tag: eBay

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…

eBay kicks off start-up competition for early stage entrepreneurs

eBay Foundation and GriffinWorx have launched the 2017 eBay StartUp Cup Challenge, a business model competition in four cities helping early stage entrepreneurs with any type of business idea to design, test and build a viable business. Through a competitive selection process over several months,…

Flipkart to invest in new businesses

Flipkart had recently raised $1.4 billion in its biggest fundraising round with investors including Tencent Holdings, Microsoft Corp and eBay Inc After latest fundraising round, the e-commerce firm will now be valued at $11.6 billion Homegrown e-commerce major Flipkart announced on April 12 that …

eBay India claims 100 million product listings

E-commerce marketplace eBay India said shoppers can access over 100 million live product listings on eBay.in and its global easy buy platform geb.ebay.in across electronics, lifestyle, media and other categories. In comparison, Amazon.in, which has the highest percentage of shipments so far, list…

7 Indian startups valued over $1 billion

Flipkart Flipkart as a startup 9 years ago was a company with ambitions in the e-Commerce domain. The company started as an online platform for selling books in 2007 by Sachin Bansal is now valued at $ 15 billion offering a huge range of products categories. Snapdeal Snapdeal the e-commerce compa…

India handloom brand bets on ecommerce to raise market positioning

India Handloom Brand is drawing up new strategies that include retail and e-Commerce, in a bid to raise the market positioning of handloom. There are four stores of the Central Cottage Industries Corporation of India at Delhi, Bengaluru, Mumbai and Chennai that stock India Handloom Brand Products…