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Online grocery platform BigBasket has raised about US$ 150 million from South Korea's Mirae Asset Management, UK's CDC Group, and existing investor Alibaba, according to regulatory filings.According to a PTI report: Bigbasket had raised US$ 300 million in February...

Paytm Mall has received the final tranche of its US $4 45 million (about Rs 3,000 crore) funding from SoftBank and Alibaba, a move that will give the online shopping venture of Paytm more financial muscle to take on...

Japan’s SoftBank has decided to sell its over 20 percent stake in e-commerce major Flipkart to US retailer Walmart for an estimated US $4 billion.“SoftBank confirms the sale of its entire stake in Flipkart to Walmart,” a SoftBank spokesperson...

Walmart has picked up 77 percent stake in Bengaluru-based e-commerce major for a whopping US $16 billion.“Walmart will pay approximately US $16 billion for an initial stake of approximately 77 percent in Flipkart, formally Flipkart Private Limited. The remainder...

As much as US $2.1 billion worth of M&A (merger and acquisition) transactions were inked in 2017 in the booming Indian e-commerce industry, which may soon witness its largest-ever deal - the proposed Flipkart-Walmart nuptial.According to a PTI report:...

Global retail giant Walmart is inching close to sealing the deal to buy a majority stake in Flipkart for as much as US $12 billion, even though rival Amazon is still jostling to turn the deal in its favour.According...

Private equity firms invested US $23.8 billion across 591 deals in 2017, making it the biggest year for PE investments in India, says a report.According to deal tracker Venture Intelligence, the investment value is 39 per cent higher than...

Snapdeal's earliest investor Kenneth Glass has come out in support of CEO Kunal Bahl over the decision to call off merger talks with larger rival Flipkart. According to a PTI report: Glass, a former Microsoft executive, has written an email...

E-commerce major Flipkart is expected to make a revised offer of $900-950 million for buying rival Snapdeal, according to sources close to PTI. According to a PTI report: The new offer almost matches the initial asking price of $1 billion...

Flipkart is expected to make a revised offer in the next few days for buying Snapdeal, after its first proposal of US $850 million was rejected by the Board of the smaller rival. According to a PTI report: The new...