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Flipkart Group launches payments app, Super.money, in fintech push
Indian e-commerce giant Flipkart has quietly started rolling out a payments app, dubbed Super.money, as it broadens its fintech ambitions.
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Can quick commerce leapfrog e-commerce in India?
Even as quick commerce startups are retreating, consolidating or shutting down in many parts of the world, the model is showing encouraging signs in India. Consumers in urban cities are embracing the convenience of having groceries delivered to their doorstep in just 10 minutes. The companies making those deliveries —…
Google is investing nearly $350 million in Flipkart, becoming the latest high-profile name to back the Walmart-owned Indian e-commerce startup. The Android maker will also provide Flipkart with cloud offerings…
Meesho, an Indian social commerce platform with 150M transacting users, raises $275M
Meesho, a leading e-commerce startup in India, has secured $275 million in a new funding round.
Sam’s Club customers who pay either at a register or through the Scan & Go mobile app can now walk out of the store without having their purchases double-checked.
India scrambles to curb PhonePe and Google’s dominance in mobile payments
The NPCI plans to meet various fintech startups this month to develop a strategy to address the market dominance of PhonePe and Google Pay in the UPI ecosystem.
Walmart will deploy robotic forklifts in its distribution centers
The story of warehouse robotics is a story of attempting to keep up with Amazon. It’s been more than a decade since the online giant revolutionized its delivery services through…
Amazon takes on India rivals with Bazaar, a low-cost fashion store
Amazon has quietly introduced a “special store” called Bazaar in India, featuring affordable and trendy fashion and lifestyle products, as it ramps up efforts against Walmart-owned Flipkart and Reliance’s Ajio,…
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Quick commerce is making fast inroads in India
Even as quick commerce is slowly fading in many markets and several heavily funded startups have folded shop in the past two years, India is emerging as a striking outlier where the model — of delivering items to customers in 10 to 20 minutes — appears to be working. India’s…
The Indian e-commerce giant Flipkart is planning to enter the quick-commerce business, aimed at providing customers with the convenience of receiving their orders instantly after making their purchases, a source…
Walmart’s PhonePe launches India app store in challenge to Google
Microsoft, Amazon and Meta are among the top brands whose apps are listed on the Indian fintech PhonePe’s Indus Appstore, an Android app store launched Wednesday in challenge to Google’s…
Amazon to launch ‘special store’ for value fashion in India
Amazon is preparing to make another attempt to break into India’s fast-growing fashion and lifestyle e-commerce sector, setting up a battle with rival Flipkart, owned by Walmart; Reliance’s Ajio; and…
Flipkart has weighed acquiring Reliance-backed instant delivery startup Dunzo
Indian e-commerce giant Flipkart has held discussions in recent weeks about potentially acquiring Dunzo, the hyperlocal delivery startup backed by Reliance Retail, three sources familiar with the matter told TechCrunch.…
India stumped on how to cut PhonePe and Google dominance in payments
India is facing a quandary in enforcing long-delayed rules to curb the dominance of PhonePe and Google Pay in the country’s ubiquitous UPI payments network, which processes over 10 billion…
Flipkart co-founder Binny Bansal has resigned from the e-commerce group’s board, the two said Saturday. Sachin Bansal, the Bengaluru-headquartered startup’s other co-founder, left the board in 2018 after a scuffle…
Meesho GMV tops $5B; app grows faster than Flipkart, Amazon India
India’s Meesho is rapidly gaining user traction, challenging entrenched leaders Flipkart and Amazon. The Bengaluru-headquartered startup, which operates a social commerce platform, is currently at a GMV run rate of…
Spot Technologies, now with $2M, will see AI security tech go into Mexico Walmarts
Spot’s flagship product, VisionX, taps into deep learning and computer vision technologies to analyze consumer and theft behaviors.
Walmart debuts generative AI search and AI replenishment features at CES
In a keynote address at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, Walmart president and CEO Doug McMillon and other Walmart execs offered a glimpse as to how the retail…
Over the last few years, I’ve asked countless people in the robotics space “what comes next after warehouse/fulfillment?” The already popular category got red hot during the pandemic, as online…
The investment arm of the U.K. retail bank M&G has led a funding of $340 million into Udaan, a business-to-business e-commerce startup, in one of the largest financing rounds secured…
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Children’s tablet has malware and exposes kids’ data, researcher finds
In May this year, Alexis Hancock’s daughter got a children’s tablet for her birthday. Being a security researcher, Hancock was immediately worried. “I looked at it kind of sideways because I’ve never heard of Dragon Touch,” Hancock told TechCrunch, referring to the tablet’s maker. As it turned out, Hancock, who…
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Walmart and Outlier Ventures’ web3 accelerator launches with five startups
Walmart’s incubation arm, Store Nº8, and Outlier Ventures have joined forces to launch its web3 accelerator program, Store Nº8 Base Camp. TechCrunch got a first look at its cohort. The 12-week virtual incubator program brought in a flagship group of five companies that specialize in web3 marketing, advertising and improving…
Walmart experiments with generative AI tools that can help you plan a party or decorate
After launching a generative AI tool for corporate employees in August, Walmart is bringing the technology to its customers. During a demo with TechCrunch, a company spokesperson outlined how the…
Pudgy Penguins’ approach may be the answer to fixing NFTs’ revenue problems
The company’s toy-focused expansion is its bet that NFTs should have a broader presence, one that’s not limited to the digital world.
Walmart returns to Roblox after its first games were attacked by consumer advocacy groups
Walmart is returning to Roblox, but this time with a virtual world where gamers can discover new virtual items and accessories to personalize their experience, not browse or shop items…
India’s PhonePe launches app store with zero fee in challenge to Google
PhonePe launched the Indus Appstore Developer Platform on Saturday, promising zero platform fees and no commissions on in-app purchases as the Walmart-backed fintech races to win Android developers in Google’s…
Walmart has spent $3.5 billion this year to acquire shares from certain Flipkart stakeholders and resolve liabilities with some PhonePe shareholders, illustrating just how aggressively it’s betting on India at…
Google Play Points, the marketplace’s rewards program first introduced in 2019, is announcing its latest line-up of perks and deals at its second annual Google Play Live event this afternoon.…
India’s PhonePe is getting into stock and mutual fund investment, the latest in a series of expansions by the Walmart-backed payments app as it looks to leverage its 450 million-plus…
Walmart is adding Wing drone deliveries to limited Superstores this year
Wing is expanding drone deliveries to a pair of Texas-area Walmart Superstores later this year. The Alphabet-owned drone firm says the two offerings will cover a combined 60,000 homes in…
