Vijayakumar Pitchiah

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15 June, 2017

Guess what's the Prime mover of Amazon's plans to win the India race

It's not even a year-old in India, but Amazon Prime, the e-commerce behemoth's subscription service that includes faster deliveries and ......

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14 June, 2017

Will Flipkart's one-stop app script a WeChat-like success story?

Earlier this week, it was reported that India's largest e-tailer Flipkart was looking to become an "everything app," using which ......

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14 June, 2017

Amazon India doubles seller base in less than a year

E-commerce marketplace Amazon India has now on-boarded two lakh sellers on its platform, a company statement said.The company claims to ......

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13 June, 2017

SoftBank steers Flipkart-Snapdeal merger talks to broad agreement

Masayoshi Son-led Japanese internet conglomerate SoftBank, which is orchestrating a merger between e-tailers Flipkart and Snapdeal, has reportedly reached a ......

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12 June, 2017

Google's Anandan, Freshworks' Mathrubootham back Vista Rooms

Mumbai-based Stay Vista Pvt. Ltd, which operates budget hotel aggregator Vista Rooms, has raised a little over Rs 5 crore ......

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12 June, 2017

Fin-tech startup Lendingkart raises $7.8 mn in debt from Yes Bank

Ahmedabad- and Bangalore-based Lendingkart, an online lending platform for small and medium enterprises (SMEs), has raised Rs 50 crore ($7.8 ......

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07 June, 2017

Uniphore strengthens top deck with two key hires

Chennai-based speech recognition startup Uniphore Software Systems Pvt. Ltd has appointed Pat Pattabhiraman as senior vice president of core technologies ......

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07 June, 2017

Rejected three takeover offers, says Freshworks CEO Girish Mathrubootham

Girish Mathrubootham, chief executive of cloud-based customer engagement platform Freshworks Inc, says the recent rebranding exercise that saw the company’s ......

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07 June, 2017

Freshdesk rebrands as Freshworks for 'multi-product' positioning

Cloud-based customer engagement platform Freshdesk Inc has rebranded itself as Freshworks Inc, the company said in a statement.The rebranding exercise ......

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06 June, 2017

Myntra ropes in former Amazon exec Jeyandran Venugopal as CTO

Flipkart-owned fashion e-tailer Myntra has appointed former Amazon and Snapdeal executive Jeyandran Venugopal as its chief technology officer (CTO), the ......