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Walmart-backed Indian e-commerce firm Flipkart has held discussions over potentially acquiring the on-demand delivery platform Dunzo, TechCrunch reported on Tuesday, citing three people familiar with the matter.

Run off their virtual feet at the start of India's festival season, e-commerce companies like Amazon and Walmart owned Flipkart are looking forward to a potentially record breaking few weeks. Any lingering fears that inflation and higher interest rates would dampen consumers' spirit in Asia's third largest economy, are being rapidly dispelled.

Indian e-commerce startup Meesho has posted its first-ever profit and is targeting a stock market listing in the next 12-18 months, a senior company executive said in an interview. Meesho competes with Amazon and Walmart's Flipkart in India's fast-growing e-commerce market, with its website becoming popular by targeting smaller towns and cities...

Walmart has paid $1.4 billion to buy out hedge fund Tiger Global's investment in e-commerce firm Flipkart, the Wall Street Journal reported on Sunday, citing a letter by the hedge-fund to its investors.

China's Xiaomi will focus on boosting its India sales from retail outlets after years of big bets on e-commerce, its India president said, as the company seeks to revive smartphone sales after falling behind South Korea's Samsung. 44 percent of India's smartphones sales are now online.

Walmart-owned Flipkart on Friday announced that it will be distributing Axis Bank's personal loans on the e-commerce platform. The platform, which has 450 million customers, will be distributing loans of up to Rs 5 lakh which can be repaid in up to three years, it said in a statement.

Walmart's Flipkart marketplace and PhonePe payments business in India could be $100 billion businesses buoyed by strong growth, the retailer's chief financial officer said on Wednesday at an investor conference.

Walmart's Flipkart marketplace and PhonePe payments business in India could be $100 billion (Rs. 8,19,750 crore) businesses buoyed by strong growth, the retailer's chief financial officer said on Wednesday at an investor conference. Walmart does not break out sales of Flipkart and PhonePe but over the past few months, executives have singled out th...

Retail giant Walmart on Wednesday said India's unique ecosystem of suppliers will help the company in achieving its goal of exporting goods worth $10 billion (nearly Rs. 81, 950 crore) from the country annually by 2027. Addressing Indian suppliers and partners, Walmart President and CEO Doug McMillon reaffirmed the roadmap for strengthening partne...

Union Minister Piyush Goyal invited retailers to join Open Network for Digital Commerce (ONDC), the government-promoted open platform for e-commerce retail services. The project is aimed at creating equal opportunities for all players and reducing the dominance of big tech firms in the sector.

Indian digital payments firm PhonePe said on Friday it has raised $200 million (nearly Rs. 1,650 crore) from majority backer Walmart at a pre-money valuation of $12 billion (nearly Rs. 99,000 crore). PhonePe, already India's most valuable payments firm and among the country's most highly-valued startups, said the investment is part of its ongoing ...

Indian digital payments firm PhonePe said on Friday it has raised $200 million from majority backer Walmart at a pre-money valuation of $12 billion.

Tiger Global and Accel are reportedly in talks to sell their remaining stake in Flipkart to Walmart for about $1.5 billion (roughly Rs. 12,235 crore). Meanwhile, the stake collectively amounts to about 5 percent and would raise Walmart's ownership in Flipkart, according to a report.

Walmart said on Wednesday that it had paid the Indian government most of the $1 billion (roughly Rs. 8,300 crore) tax after it shifted the headquarters for PhonePe from Singapore to India. The US retail giant said last month it had completed the separation of PhonePe from Flipkart, adding that it would remain a majority stakeholder in both firms.

"We are pleased to announce that employees, who are holders of Flipkart ESOPs (employee stock option plans), will receive a one-time discretionary cash payout as part of the transaction," an email from Kalyan Krishnamurthy, the Flipkart CEO (chief executive officer) read.

Walmart-backed Indian e-commerce firm Flipkart has held discussions over potentially acquiring the on-demand delivery platform Dunzo, TechCrunch reported on Tuesday, citing three people familiar with the matter.

Run off their virtual feet at the start of India's festival season, e-commerce companies like Amazon and Walmart owned Flipkart are looking forward to a potentially record breaking few weeks. Any lingering fears that inflation and higher interest rates would dampen consumers' spirit in Asia's third largest economy, are being rapidly dispelled.

Indian e-commerce startup Meesho has posted its first-ever profit and is targeting a stock market listing in the next 12-18 months, a senior company executive said in an interview. Meesho competes with Amazon and Walmart's Flipkart in India's fast-growing e-commerce market, with its website becoming popular by targeting smaller towns and cities...

Walmart has paid $1.4 billion to buy out hedge fund Tiger Global's investment in e-commerce firm Flipkart, the Wall Street Journal reported on Sunday, citing a letter by the hedge-fund to its investors.

China's Xiaomi will focus on boosting its India sales from retail outlets after years of big bets on e-commerce, its India president said, as the company seeks to revive smartphone sales after falling behind South Korea's Samsung. 44 percent of India's smartphones sales are now online.

Walmart-owned Flipkart on Friday announced that it will be distributing Axis Bank's personal loans on the e-commerce platform. The platform, which has 450 million customers, will be distributing loans of up to Rs 5 lakh which can be repaid in up to three years, it said in a statement.

Walmart's Flipkart marketplace and PhonePe payments business in India could be $100 billion businesses buoyed by strong growth, the retailer's chief financial officer said on Wednesday at an investor conference.

Walmart's Flipkart marketplace and PhonePe payments business in India could be $100 billion (Rs. 8,19,750 crore) businesses buoyed by strong growth, the retailer's chief financial officer said on Wednesday at an investor conference. Walmart does not break out sales of Flipkart and PhonePe but over the past few months, executives have singled out th...

Retail giant Walmart on Wednesday said India's unique ecosystem of suppliers will help the company in achieving its goal of exporting goods worth $10 billion (nearly Rs. 81, 950 crore) from the country annually by 2027. Addressing Indian suppliers and partners, Walmart President and CEO Doug McMillon reaffirmed the roadmap for strengthening partne...

Union Minister Piyush Goyal invited retailers to join Open Network for Digital Commerce (ONDC), the government-promoted open platform for e-commerce retail services. The project is aimed at creating equal opportunities for all players and reducing the dominance of big tech firms in the sector.

Indian digital payments firm PhonePe said on Friday it has raised $200 million (nearly Rs. 1,650 crore) from majority backer Walmart at a pre-money valuation of $12 billion (nearly Rs. 99,000 crore). PhonePe, already India's most valuable payments firm and among the country's most highly-valued startups, said the investment is part of its ongoing ...

Indian digital payments firm PhonePe said on Friday it has raised $200 million from majority backer Walmart at a pre-money valuation of $12 billion.

Tiger Global and Accel are reportedly in talks to sell their remaining stake in Flipkart to Walmart for about $1.5 billion (roughly Rs. 12,235 crore). Meanwhile, the stake collectively amounts to about 5 percent and would raise Walmart's ownership in Flipkart, according to a report.

Walmart said on Wednesday that it had paid the Indian government most of the $1 billion (roughly Rs. 8,300 crore) tax after it shifted the headquarters for PhonePe from Singapore to India. The US retail giant said last month it had completed the separation of PhonePe from Flipkart, adding that it would remain a majority stakeholder in both firms.

"We are pleased to announce that employees, who are holders of Flipkart ESOPs (employee stock option plans), will receive a one-time discretionary cash payout as part of the transaction," an email from Kalyan Krishnamurthy, the Flipkart CEO (chief executive officer) read.