Tag: ECOMMERCE

How Cisco can win big from small businesses

IDC forecasts that small and medium-sized businesses, or SMBs, are going to spend $668 billion on IT products and services in 2020, as compared to $564 billion last year, outpacing the growth of the overall IT market. One of the ways to take advantage of this market is through Cisco, as it has be…

Hedge funds fleeing Indian start-up market

Hedge funds were all over the Indian startup scene last year. Look around now and it will be hard to spot one. They have simply fallen off the cliff in 2016. There have been only 10 deals involving hedge funds in the first three quarters of 2016, compared to 50 deals in the same period […]…

Finance Ministry backs easing curbs on FDI in e-Commerce

The Finance Ministry has backed the scrapping of restrictions on ecommerce companies that have overseas investment, such as those on directly offering discounts to customers, said an official. “This condition (directly or indirectly influencing discounts) is arbitrary,” the person sai…

JustLikeNew.in raises $500k from angel investors

Smartphone repair e-commerce platform JustLikeNew.in said it has raised funds worth USD 500,000 (about Rs 3.3 crore) through LetsVenture.com, from angel investors Mindtree Executive Chairman Krishnakumar Natarajan and former Oracle India MD, Sandeep Mathur. Existing investors Aneesh Reddy and Vik…

Startups see uptick in funding as investors return to Hyderabad

Startups in Hyderabad are seeing an uptick in funding as investors return to the city after a hiatus caused in part by the political instability in the region. According to Tracxn, which collects data on the Indian Startup industry, 25 Hyderabad-based ventures have been funded so far this year, c…