eCommerce

State Bank Of India & SREI Sahaj Tie-Up For Rural eBanking

By Diwaskar Chettri on March 17th, 2010 |

eYantra Raises $7.8 M In Series B From Argonaut

By Diwaskar Chettri on March 12th, 2010 |

Update: Phani Narayanam, Founder, EYantra informs us that the company had bought back stake from Times Private Treaties last year. Earlier (March 12, 2009): Hyderbad based merchandising and corporate gifting solution company ... Continue_Reading

Updated: Comparing MingleBox & PagalGuy’s Online MBA College Application Services

By Nikhil Pahwa on March 8th, 2010 |

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Updates below with details from Apurv Pandit of PagalGuy Pardon the pun, but this is probably the “killer application” for online education websites in India. Old favorite PagalGuy.com and Sequoia Capital ... Continue_Reading

IndiaTVNews Partners Rhythm Mobile For Online Art Gallery

By Preethi J on March 5th, 2010 |

Indians Ready To Pay For Books, Videos & Music: Survey

By Preethi J on March 4th, 2010 |

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Twenty nine percent of Indians polled have already paid for books (note: not e-books) online, 19 percent have paid for online magazines, and 18 percent have paid for music, ... Continue_Reading

BookMyShow To Sell Tickets For IPL 3; What Happened To TicketPro.in?

By Diwaskar Chettri on March 3rd, 2010 |

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Only 8 days to go for the start of the Indian Premier League, and online ticketing website BookmyShow.com has announced that they are the exclusive ticketing partner for the Mumbai ... Continue_Reading

EdServ Takes Over SmartLearn Web TV For Rs 46M

By Preethi J on March 3rd, 2010 |

MChek Is Western Union Money Transfer Certified; Comviva Joins

By Nikhil Pahwa on March 3rd, 2010 |

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Western Union has put together a Mobile Vendor Program, for standardising technical deployments of its money transfer services on mobile. MChek has received Western Union certification, while Bharti Group owned ... Continue_Reading

Pay Tax For Downloading Apps?

By Preethi J on March 2nd, 2010 |

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Knock, knock. Who’s there? E-commerce. E-commerce, who? India does not care for you. The Union Budget 2010 is setting up the government for some serious ridicule from the Indian Internet community if this Business ... Continue_Reading

PayPal Payments In India Will Require ‘Purpose Code’; Still No P2P

By Nikhil Pahwa on March 2nd, 2010 |

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According to the latest update from Paypal, from March 3rd, Indian entities will have only to fill out a ‘Purpose Code’ which defines the purpose of the payment made to ... Continue_Reading

PayPal To Resume India Payments By 3rd March; Export Code Needed

By Nikhil Pahwa on February 27th, 2010 |

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Update: (March 2nd): It appears that Paypal will no longer require an Export Code, but a ‘Purpose Code. Much easier, this way. Read the update here. Earlier (Feb 27th): The Reserve ... Continue_Reading

SBI Partners With Airtel & BSNL For Mobile Money Transfers

By Preethi J on February 25th, 2010 |

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After YES Bank partnered with Nokia to launch Nokia Money in India, India’s largest bank State Bank of India has stepped up its own efforts to bring mobile banking to ... Continue_Reading