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The Chinese e-commerce firm is likely to make more vertical e-commerce investments and smaller dealsThe potential shift in strategy follows Alibaba’s disappointments at some of its large e-commerce bets in India

All participants including the foreign investors need clear blue water to navigate

The new rule appears to impose a limit on how much one vendor can sell on a particular portal, which will discourage many small entrepreneurs, especially home businesses, that thrive only because of online sales without brick-and-mortar operations

Analysing the key aspects of the latest government probe into online discounts by Flipkart, Amazon and their ilk

The draft e-commerce policy restricts e-commerce firms to store user data outside India and stops online retailers to directly or indirectly influence the price of products, services on its platform

The improvement in Jabong's net promoter score has helped the company grow revenues as well as increase user base by 30% this fiscal compared with the previous year

Toys 'R' Us files for bankruptcy as the retailer, loaded with debt in a buyout more than a decade ago, fails to keep consumers from going to online competitors

Paytm Mall, owned by Paytm E-commerce, says it will support shopkeepers to take on online retailers and will invest up to $5 million to address the needs of its partner retailers

Amazon.com's losses from its international business jumped more than five times to $724 million from the same period last year, mainly due to its investments in India

Amazon's shares rise ahead of the world's largest online retailer's Prime Day sale, while its new service to help set up 'smart homes' weighs on rival Best Buy