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Flipkart Introduces Service to Help Resellers Reach Customers

September 25, 2024
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Report: Amazon and Flipkart Broke India’s Competition Laws
ANTITRUST // September 12, 2024

Amazon and Walmart-owned Flipkart have reportedly been accused of violating India’s antitrust laws. An investigation found that the two eCommerce rivals broke the competition rules by prioritizing select sellers on their websites, Reuters reported Thursday (Sept. 12), citing reports by the Competition Commission of India (CCI). The CCI had launched an...

Flipkart Adds New Bill Pay, Recharge Options to eCommerce Platform
Digital Payments // July 11, 2024

Walmart-owned Indian eCommerce marketplace Flipkart added new ways for customers to pay bills and recharge payments while shopping on the platform. The company has added FASTag, direct-to-home recharges, landline, broadband and mobile prepaid bill payments to its app, Flipkart said in a Wednesday (July 10)...

Flipkart Launches UPI Payment App Offering Cashback Rewards
Loyalty & Rewards // June 26, 2024

Walmart-owned Indian eCommerce firm Flipkart has launched a Unified Payments Interface (UPI) payment app that offers up to 5% cashback on purchases. The new super.money app is available on the Google Play store. “Unlike other UPI apps, we’ll never offer you useless coupons, scratch cards or coins,”...

Walmart Says PhonePe and Flipkart IPOs Years Away
Walmart // June 09, 2024

Walmart’s India-based eCommerce marketplace and payments company aren’t quite ready to go public. “This is something we’re looking at over the next couple of years,” Walmart’s executive vice president for corporate affairs, Dan Bartlett, told Reuters last week in reference to the company’s marketplace Flipkart...

Interviews & Exclusives
Amazon (And Others) Brace For India’s New eCommerce Tax

February 10, 2020
The jousting over eCommerce taxes — especially for U.S. firms operating on an international scale — is about to get more heated. Last week in India, the government proposed a tax on eCommerce transactions that will likely increase operating costs for sellers large and small. The tax, technically known as “Tax Deducted at Source” (TDS), […]

Report: YTD India FinTech Investments Top $722M

August 23, 2019
Alt lending, and, of course, digital payments, were top of mind for investors targeting India FinTechs these past few weeks. We take stock of two quarters and the YTD —...

Walmart, Wearables And The Murky Future For Marketplaces In India

June 07, 2019
While it might not look like much at first glance, an escalating legal spat between Walmart-owned, Indian eCommerce marketplace Flipkart and a small, relatively unknown New Delhi wearables maker might...

India’s Payments Power Moves

September 03, 2018
Cash continues to command the loyalties of consumers in India. However, as demonstrated this summer, the country is not only embracing digital payments, but increasingly attracting competition from some of...

Quick Reads
Flipkart Introduces Service to Help Resellers Reach Customers

September 25, 2024
Indian eCommerce giant Flipkart is getting into the reCommerce business. The company on Wednesday (Sept. 25) introduced “Flipkart Reset for Business,” a mobile app designed to help small and big sellers of refurbished products across the country to connect with last-mile customers. “The demand for refurbished products is surging, especially in India’s tier 2 and 3 cities,” the company […]

Report: Amazon and Flipkart Broke India’s Competition Laws

September 12, 2024
Amazon and Walmart-owned Flipkart have reportedly been accused of violating India’s antitrust laws. An investigation found that the two eCommerce rivals broke the competition rules by prioritizing select sellers on their websites, Reuters reported Thursday (Sept....

Flipkart Adds New Bill Pay, Recharge Options to eCommerce Platform

July 11, 2024
Walmart-owned Indian eCommerce marketplace Flipkart added new ways for customers to pay bills and recharge payments while shopping on the platform. The company has added FASTag, direct-to-home recharges, landline, broadband...

Flipkart Launches UPI Payment App Offering Cashback Rewards

June 26, 2024
Walmart-owned Indian eCommerce firm Flipkart has launched a Unified Payments Interface (UPI) payment app that offers up to 5% cashback on purchases. The new super.money app is available on the Google Play...