Updated: Flipkart’s Mp3 Music Store Flyte Goes Live; Download Manager
Updated with a quick review Flipkart’s digital downloads store, Flyte is now live, offering music in MP3 format. The store is offering DRM free music tracks starting at Rs 6 with multi device playback...
View ArticleFlipkart Shutters LetsBuy; Why Not Keep Two Storefronts?
LetsBuy, the electronics and gadgets focused ecommerce store, which was acquired by Flipkart, earlier this year, has shut shop and is displaying a redirection message, informing visitors that its...
View ArticleNH7 Launches Music Store On Flipkart Flyte; Why?
NH7.in, the music streaming and discovery platform focused on independent music, has tied-up with Indian e-commerce major, Flipkart to launch digital music downloads featuring indepdent music, via...
View ArticleFlipkart Launches Private Label DigiFlip For Accessories; Why?
E-commerce major Flipkart, has launched its own private label ‘DigiFlip’, reports Pluggd.in. The report states that through this brand, Flipkart currently retails electronic accessories like camera...
View ArticleUpdated: Report: Flipkart To Raise $150M From Naspers, Tiger; What About Tradus?
Update: Naspers has confirmed the funding, however, it has refused to divulge details about the amount that it has invested in Flipkart, citing confidential contractual terms. In response to our query...
View Article#NAMA: Binny Bansal & Sundeep Malhotra On Building An E-Commerce Business In...
Speaking at a session at the #NAMA Conference, Flipkart co-founder & COO, Binny Bansal and HomeShop18 Founder & CEO Sundeep Malhotra spoke about building an e-commerce business in the country,...
View ArticleFlipkart’s E-Book Store Goes Live; Android Only; 64,000 E-Books At Launch
Although, it’s late by a few months, Flipkart has finally launched an e-books section, ’Flyte eBooks’ on its portal, allowing users to download e-books to their mobile phones and tablets. Android...
View ArticleUpdated: Enforcement Directorate To Probe Flipkart For Alleged FDI Norms...
Update: Our sources within Flipkart say that no such raid has taken place. We’ve written to Flipkart for an official statement. Update: The Enforcement Directorate had raided Flipkart offices on...
View Article#NAMA Video: Binny Bansal & Sundeep Malhotra On Building An E-Commerce...
At MediaNama’s #NAMA Conference, Flipkart co-founder & COO, Binny Bansal and HomeShop18 Founder & CEO Sundeep Malhotra spoke about building an e-commerce business in India, effect of the...
View ArticleFlipkart’s Ashok Banerjee & TimesOfMoney’s Kunnal Sharma on E-Commerce Analytics
Speaking at a session on E-commerce analytics at Exchange4Media’s Pitch Analytics in Action conference, Ashok Banerjee, VP (Engineering and Supply Chain) at Flipkart said that analytics helps the...
View ArticleFlipkart CFO Karandeep Singh Resigns
Karandeep Singh, Chief Financial Officer at Flipkart.com has quit the company citing personal reasons. This was first reported by Nextbigwhat. Flipkart has confirmed this resignation to Medianama,...
View ArticleIt’s Official: Flipkart To Launch Marketplace
So it’s official now. E-commerce major Flipkart is launching a marketplace, and is currently looking to sign up external sellers for the launch of its marketplace. A sign-in page for sellers has gone...
View ArticleFlipkart Sells Front End Ops To Former OnMobile COO & Others: Report
E-Commerce major Flipkart has has sold its front end retail operations WS Retail to a group of investors led by former OnMobile COO Rajiv Kuchhal (who was with OnMobile from May 2006 to June 2008),...
View ArticleYouTube India Integrates Music Purchase From Flipkart, iTunes
This a big development for the sale of digital goods in India: Google owned YouTube has integrated purchase of digital goods from Flipkart and iTunes, we noticed while going through EMI’s music catalog...
View ArticleFlipkart Starts Accepting International Cards For Payments
Updated below with additional information Online shopping site Flipkart.com has started accepting International cards for payments. It has partnered with CyberSource, a Visa Company to enable...
View ArticleFlipkart Restricts Wallet Top-Ups To Flyte Only; Marketplace Announcement
Online shopping major Flipkart.com has restricted its users from using new wallet top-ups to transactions on Flyte, its digital goods store, an email it sent to its wallet users indicates. (see below;...
View ArticleE-Commerce Firms Flipkart, Jabong & Zovi Reducing Its Workforce: Report
It looks like e-commerce woes are far from over in the country. Several e-commerce firms like Flipkart, Jabong and Zovi are laying off employees in a bid to cut its costs, reports The Economic Times,...
View ArticleFlipkart Appoints Kalyan Krishnamurthy As Interim CFO
E-commerce major Flipkart has appointed Tiger Global’s Kalyan Krishnamurthy as its interim Chief Financial Officer (CFO), while it is still on the look out for a new full time CFO, reports TechCircle....
View ArticleUpdated: Flipkart’s Flyte Music Store To Shut Down By 17th June 2013; Timeline
E-commerce major Flipkart is pulling the plug on its digital music store Flyte Music on June 17, 2013. While the store is live at the time of writing this article, we noticed that Flipkart has removed...
View ArticleWhy Flipkart Shut Down Flyte Music
Why is Flipkart shutting down its online music store Flyte Music a little over a year after launching it? While the company is unwilling to comment on it, beyond saying that there are issues related...
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