With all of the talk surrounding the growth of e-commerce, one would think the trend would appeal to a wide set of investors regardless of investment style.
However, to really unlock the potential of Indian e-commerce, one has to reach the hundreds of millions of customers that live in tier-two or -three cities, or in the countryside.
Alibaba.com, a giant business-to-business marketplace, also complements Yahoo's desire to develop business related to e-commerce, one of the people briefed on the matter said.
Two e-commerce companies, Commerce One Inc. and AppNet Inc., said yesterday that they were discussing a merger.
On the e-commerce side, one of the reasons it hasn't hit the penetration rate that is seen in the UK and the United States is that there isn't a good infrastructure for delivery, he said.
Based on the combine dataset, from an e-commerce perspective, one can predict the preference of each consumer given his/her previous activities.
E-commerce is one of the few retail categories thriving these days.
As for opening a unit to focus on the new economy when much of it seems to be getting old fast, Mr. Anderson said: "E-commerce in one form or another is here to stay.
But of all those e-commerce segments, one stood head and shoulders above the rest: assisted commerce.
How do you scale? A. We've done retail and e-commerce, and one thing we've always wanted to avoid was logistics.
