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Flipkart has sent a mail to all its customers. It's good. Flipkart has learnt post Mi3 debacle where lot of customers would like to buy the product . Flipkart has started communicating to  customers . It is like Narendra Modi Style. Communicate with your Audience . Always be in Touch. Below is the mail Content. Dear Customer,  Yesterday was a big day for us. And we really wanted it to be a great day for you. But at the end of the day, we know that your experience was less than pleasant. We did not live up to the promises we made and for that we are really and truly sorry.  

3 weeks effort of big billion day sales by Flipkart has come to an end on same day within 10 hours of its launched . Orders - over 300,000 , Sales - $100 million in 10 hours. Flipkart has achieved its target and reached a mark of $100 million well before 1 day and put a full stop and not expecting order. Sachin and Binny Bansal , Co-founders of Flipkart confirmed in Media.

It is getting personal now between Flipkart, Amazon and Snapdeal. All heavy weights of Ecommerce players are fighting a tough battle and this time it is Big Billion Day. While Flipkart has launched big billion day sale on diwali festive season from last 3 weeks. the big billion day campaign is hijacked by amazon.in, yes. the domain of bigbillionday.com redirecting to Amazon.in. Snapdeal is also not behind . You can see the adverts floating around it. This is a very intense war. Funding is huge for all three and all of them want to be bigger than other two. 

W ith the novel government polishing the present India predominantly in economy and defense, India is eagerly encrypting the changes on it whose outputs are expected to be the unbeatable assets for future. The recent reports claimed on the economic growth evidently are the optimistic benchmarks for the anticipated hike in development succeeding shortly. Within this short time, the influence of economic growth spread out   so far has brought various changes in the e- commerce sector too. The unexpected emergence of the great entrepreneurs of the country and their successful step in to the e commerce battle field are the so called boosts for the growing e commerce.

Mobile Devices driving Sales Tablet and Smart phones have taken over web when it comes to selling online (e-retail) in UK. Over 52% of traffic is coming though mobile devices. In terms of Sales, 36% of sales come through mobile devices (out of which 82% comes through Tablets and 18% through Smart Phones).  According to Quarterly Bench marking Report (May 2014 to July 2014) done by U.K. e-retail association Interactive Media in Retail Group (IMRG)  and Capgemini. The report captures online traffic and sales of top 40 U.K. retailers.

For people obsessed with shopping more than ever and for those who are proud of their bargaining skills, online retail stores or the new generation e-commerce sites have given them a reason to rejoice. With a modest entry into the Indian retail market, many of the e-commerce websites have already managed to garner great turnovers, drive sales and make revenues.

M yntra is now striving the best to keep it’s promise of establishing itself in the realm of e-commerce fashion market by its great contributions and innovative ideas that it adopted within a short span of time to prove the excellence. As the CEO of the company once told that the fledging e – commerce market will shortly see the consolidated emergence of each company individually over the 2 years.

A mazon, the giant in e -commerce is now ready with its new tactic to gain more customers. Some time before the idea put forward for “ local registration ” was one such preceding move to create an output that aimed at well planned establishment of the company in the mobile market . Yes, it succeeded in its attempt and came up with “Amazon local register” . However this time what the company renders is not the conventional style – the introduction of new mobile types or stores, but a technology that could obviously contribute to a multidimensional trustworthy money transfer mechanism.  Recently the system came to the mobile payment market, taking companies such as square and PayPal here. The label is a combination of a secure card reader, which must be purchased for US$10, and a free mobile app. Together, they offer a platform that allows businesses to accept credit and debit card payments using smart phones or tablet. The introductory fees for sign up on or before of 31 is 1.7...

A mazon , which has been sometime involved in the battle of ebook prices     was expected to prepare itself for uprooting the created discrepancies in the cool functioning of the system, whilst the recent news of Amazon ’s cancellation of the preorders from Disney has worsened the present situation which is a sign of Amazon’s direct entry for a dispute with the publisher Disney . Despite the heat it has taken up from the authors and publishers in the ebook pricing fight , Amazon doesn’t seem to get deprived from the battlefield or there are no clues of any attempted compromises. The e –commerce giant   is not even a bit shook   or is ready to reform the present aggressive strategy   which it has adopted   recently. Whereas the company might be feeling a little stung as it has the need to explain itself to the customers to gather up   the required support and hence to polish its fame.

Amazon , the giant in the e-commerce market is trying to stay unique as always and hence strengthening itself backing out other opponents by winning the customers through its unbeatable customer supporting services. The vice president and principal analyst of the Forrester research, madam Julie was quite deadly astonished and rather excited when she tweeted the amazing experience of shopping in Amazon enabled through the fire service. The US m-commerce is thereby firmly expected to move on a rather faster pace to increase the expected sum of $100M in the end of 2014 ‘whilst the new battleground for retailers is the MOBILE MOMENT - the point in space and time when a customer pulls out her phone to get something that she needs immediately needs and in context `says Julie. The mini sprout ups in the various other countries by Amazon representatives have also recently extended Amazon’s hold up in other countries on which a favorable number of customers rely hence strengthening the shar...

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It is often said about Bombay that the most magical of stories find its roots in this charming city. It is a place which witnesses a co-existence of 12 million people from all walks of life. The poor and the rich, the big and the small, the old and the young – this city houses them all. Amidst all of them, one group of people who have been an integral part of Mumbai’s culture are the city’s famed  chaiwalas , or tea vendors. Mumbaikars have always loved their tea, and that is the reason why thousands of  chaiwalas line the streets everyday to serve the city its favourite drink. Everyone loves a sip or two, be it executives discussing strategies while puffing on a cigarette or labourers taking a break after toiling hard in the summer sun.

Here is a list of Best Online Shopping Sites in USA .  This is the list of  2014 Online Shopping E- commerce Website in United States of America. Hottest U.S. Internet and Mobile Retail Sites in 2013, 2012, and 2011

Amazon India has shown its muscle power to Indian Ecommerce giants Flipkart and Snapdeal. Yes you read it right. In just 8-10 months of time, Amazon has shown that they are the world leader when it comes to Marketplace model. They have tied up with thousands of Dealer/Merchant and bringing them on-board across 20 categories. They claimed to have over 15 million products in Amazon.in, while Flipkart and Snapdeal have 10 million and 4 million respectively.  

Open Source Ecommerce Platforms Open-source e-commerce softwares provide entire web store application or part of a web store like shopping cart. These softwares have features such as shopping cart functionality and product catalogs that enable store owners to set up, run and maintain online stores.  Typically, Open-source e-commerce softwares are available for free, however, other fees may exist for varying types of memberships.  Small size companies where transaction volumes are low adopt open-source software and it has been a mainstream activity for almost more than five years. But many large enterprises are wary of adopting open-source e-commerce for large-scale and midsize e-commercesites , because of concerns over reliability in supporting large transaction volumes. Scalability and security are the major bottleneck for large-scale transactional sites.