Commerce Minister Anand Sharma says the Finance Ministry has come out with number of notifications easing investment flows. ...
07:14 PM, Jun 01, 2012
New Delhi: India's exports grew by a mere 3.2 per cent year-on-year to $24.4 billion in April 2012 mainly due to the slow demand in western markets like Europe. Exports stood at $23.6 billion in April 2011, according to data released by the Commerce Ministry in New Delhi on June 1. Imports during the first month of the current fiscal grew 3.8 per cent to $37.9 billion, leaving a trade...
03:31 PM, Jun 01, 2012
Banaglore: Director Trishul of 'Baba' fame has titled his next Kannada film 'The Dirty Picture', but filmmaker Ekta Kapoor is unhappy and has filed a complaint against the use of the title. The Karnataka Film Chamber of Commerce (KFCC) cleared the title for producer Venkatappa's yet-to-be-launched Kannada film, which will reportedly star Pakistani actress Veena Malik in the lead role. Ekta, who had produced Viday Balan starrer super hit film...
05:23 PM, May 06, 2012
'The Dirty Pictures' in Hindi created a sensation with Vidya Balan doing the role of South Indian actress and dancer Silk Smitha life sketch. The film of Ekta Kapoor 'The Dirty Picture' was a super hit in Hindi and Vidya Balan also got the national honour for it. With the same title 'Dirty Picture...Silk Sakkath Maga' Kannada cinema is all set to launch with a different story. The leading lady...
12:25 PM, May 06, 2012
San Francisco: Yahoo Inc could be weeks away from selling 15 to 25 per cent of Alibaba Group's stock back to China's largest e-commerce company, in a deal designed to eliminate complexities that had scuttled the parties' previous negotiations, a person familiar with the matter said. The two companies have been in talks for a month, the person said, but cautioned that there is no guarantee a deal will be...
11:20 AM, May 05, 2012
Mumbai: The Centre is planning to draft a legislation to regulate online media and is already holding consultations with the opposition over the matter, BJP president Nitin Gadkari said on Thursday. "The government is planning to impose restrictions on online media and has sought our views on how to go about it. Serious discussions are going on. We want freedom of speech to exist, but we also don't want anybody's...
11:09 PM, May 03, 2012
New Delhi: India decided to allow fresh cotton exports after a Group of Ministers meeting convened by the Prime Minister discussed the issue on Monday. Post meeting, Commerce Minister Anand Sharma said that India will allow "fresh cotton export registration". The GoM will now review the situation based on revised estimates and figures of crop size. The Opposition raised the issue in Parliament on Monday with JDU leader and NDA...
01:25 PM, Apr 30, 2012
Chicago: Last year, the buzzword in e-commerce was Groupon Inc and its myriad of competitors that offered daily online coupons to entice shoppers in a down economy. Now, the latest fashion in retail is social gifting, where people get together on Facebook to buy each other gifts. Start-ups such as Sweden-based Wrapp, which is launching its US business on Monday, are getting millions of dollars in venture-capital funding, and retailers...
10:52 AM, Apr 30, 2012
New Delhi: Airtel's online shop offers products and services like mobile phones, mobile and broadband plans, Digital TV services etc. Airtel has launched its new e-commerce portal, called Airtel Shop, which will offer deals on mobile handsets, digital TV, and broadband connections at http://shop.airtel.com. Users will be able to buy Airtel plans for mobile, broadband and DTH service through the website. We expect that Airtel users will get special offers...
12:59 PM, Apr 28, 2012
Chicago: Groupon Inc has hired another former eBay Inc executive to head its discount retailing arm Groupon Goods starting Monday, according to an internal email obtained by Reuters on Friday. The online coupon company named Faisal Masud to head the unit. Masud, who was head of global delivery experience at eBay, will report to Kal Raman, whom Groupon named head of its Americas region on Thursday. Masud takes over from...
12:02 PM, Apr 28, 2012
Mumbai: EBay Inc is stepping up investment in India to boost its share of a market dominated by domestic players such as Flipkart and fend off encroachment from arch-rival Amazon.com. The e-commerce company dipped a toe into the Indian market seven years ago and stuck with a cautious approach, even as local upstarts made splashy grabs for business in a tiny but growing market. "The talks of us having missed...
12:12 PM, Apr 27, 2012
San Francisco: Yahoo Inc hired PayPal's former head of products to help oversee its newly-formed commerce group, as the Web pioneer looks for new ways to reignite growth. Yahoo said on Monday that Sam Shrauger will co-lead the consumer commerce business, along with Mollie Spilman, who most recently led marketing in Yahoo's Americas region. The announcement fills an important slot in the management reorganisation unveiled last week by Yahoo Chief...
11:43 AM, Apr 17, 2012
Asif Ali Zardari's 'unofficial' India trip was marked by pragmatic politics and a common will to strengthen bilateral trade despite bitter differences. ...
11:48 PM, Apr 13, 2012
Suhasini Haidar: Hello and welcome to Worldview with me Suhasini Haider. We have a packed show tonight, we're discussing India-Pakistan ties, can they put trade instead of terror, commerce instead of Kashmir on the front burner. We'll hear from Imran Khan, the opposition leader there in Islamabad. Also visiting Delhi, Zafar Mahmood, he's the Pakistani Commerce Secretary, we'll be able to speak with him. Later in the show we have...
11:00 PM, Apr 13, 2012
Asif Ali Zardari's 'unofficial' India trip was marked by pragmatic politics and a common will to strengthen bilateral trade despite bitter differences. Join CNN-IBN's Suhasini Haidar for a discussion this week in World View on Friday night at 10 pm. ...
01:19 PM, Apr 12, 2012
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