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| Jul 2, 2026 | Inside India newsletter: Amazon, Walmart-owned Flipkart get ready to shake up India’s delivery-in-minutes sector | Monday - Friday, 11:00 - 12:00 SIN/HK | 0500 - 06:00 CET
Though late to the quick commerce race, Amazon and Flipkart are scrambling to expand in the space to remain relevant to consumers who want their orders in 15 minutes or less.
Amazon w... |
| Jun 5, 2026 | Amazon Music Unlimited arrives in India as Prime Music gets ads from July 2 | Amazon Music is expanding beyond its Prime membership offering in India, introducing a three-tier streaming model as it seeks to tap into what it believes could become a market of 100 million paid audio subscribers within the next decade.
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| May 29, 2026 | Amazon Ads to host free summit in New Delhi to help Indian sellers reach customers in the US, UK and beyond | For an Indian seller sitting in Jaipur making leather bags or a homegrown skincare brand in Bengaluru, the question of how to reach a customer in New York or London has always felt complicated and expensive.
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| May 8, 2026 | Amazon India to scale up rest facilities for delivery associates to 250 in Delhi, Bengaluru, Mumbai and other cities | Amazon on Friday announced plans to expand its ‘Ashray’ centres, dedicated rest stops for delivery associates, across Delhi NCR, Mumbai, Bengaluru, Chennai and other cities nationwide to 250 centres this year. As part of the expansion, the ... |
| Apr 23, 2026 | Amazon to invest Rs 2,800 crore in India to boost operations network and associate well-being | E-commerce giant Amazon has announced plans to invest more than Rs 2,800 crore (around $300 million) in India to strengthen its operations network and expand programmes aimed at improving the safety, health and financial well-being of its w... |
| Oct 30, 2025 | The shark tank effect: How entrepreneurship is rising in small cities | Monday - Friday, 11:00 - 12:00 SIN/HK | 0500 - 06:00 CET
Small cities in India are seeing a rise in entrepreneurship.
Amazon India said that small cities were “witnessing remarkable growth” on its Amazon Global Selling platform.
Family-owne... |
| Oct 14, 2025 | Google to invest $15 billion to build data center hub in India; largest outside of the U.S. | The deal comes after “a year of intense discussions and relentless effort,” and “is just the beginning,” said Minister for Human Resources Development of Andhra Pradesh.
Tech companies have been heavily investing in data centers to meet the... |
| Sep 4, 2025 | Amazon completes $200 million cash acquisition of Axio, adds an NBFC licence via deal | Synopsis
While the company did not disclose the deal size, sources pegged it at around $200 million, with all the existing investors of Axio making an exit and the founders continuing to run the show.
ETtechAxio founders Sashank Rishyasring... |
| Feb 8, 2025 | Shriram Life's Mixed Bag: Premium Growth Amid Profit Decline | In the world of finance, numbers tell stories. Shriram Life Insurance recently unveiled its quarterly results, and the narrative is a blend of triumph and challenge. The company reported a 14% drop in profit after tax, landing at ₹43 crore ... |
| Feb 7, 2025 | CleanMax and Amazon sign PPA for 100MW of Wind Energy | MUMBAI, India, Feb. 7, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- CleanMax, one of Asia's leading renewable energy and net-zero solution provider for the Commercial and Industrial (C&I) sector and a Brookfield-backed company today announced a new Power Purch... |
| Dec 10, 2024 | Need To Shorten Delivery Time In Non-Metro Cities: Amazon India Head | SUMMARY
Amazon country manager Samir Kumar said that the company has barely scratched the surface when it comes to ecommerce expansion in India
He shared that the company is currently working on trimming down its timeline for deliveries in ... |
| Feb 7, 2024 | #AlexaTurns6: 72 Hours of Great Deals on Echo, Fire TV, Alexa Smart Home Combos, and Much More | Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
Amazon is celebrating six years of Alexa’s launch in India. Alexa has been a trusted companion to millions of Indian customers over the last six years making day-to-day tasks super convenient while adding an elem... |
| Jun 5, 2023 | Amazon aims to digitalize 10 million small businesses in India by 2025 | EcommerceNewsStartups
Deepti Sri · 5 Jun 2023 · 1 min readAmazon aims to digitalize 10 million small businesses in India by 2025
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Amazon is targeting to digitalize 10 million small businesses in India by 2025, which is e... |
| Jan 24, 2023 | New Amazon Air Plan Could Cut Delivery to Just a Few Hours | Urian B., Tech Times 24 January 2023, 11:01 pm
Amazon announced the launch of Amazon Air - a dedicated air cargo service in India. This is to aid with the speed and expansion of package delivery in the country, which has become a key market... |
| Sep 23, 2022 | Amazon Expands Four-Hour Delivery Service To 50 Indian Cities | Amazon has expanded the four-hour delivery service to 50 cities for Prime members from 14 cities earlier
The ecommerce giant first introduced same-day delivery service in India in 2017 and has been increasing the number of cities with the s... |
| Sep 21, 2022 | Amazon sets up 3 renewable energy projects in India; 71 new projects globally | Sohini Bagchi 21 Sep, 2022
Amazon has announced three large-scale renewable energy projects in India. All three solar projects are located in Rajasthan, and represent 420 megawatts or MW of clean energy capacity. This is the company’s first... |
| Jul 11, 2022 | Chromecast with Google TV is now available in India | Team TC 11 Jul, 2022
Google has said that its latest media streaming device Chromecast with Google TV is now available in India. It is priced at ₹6,399 and will be sold through Flipkart.com and retail outlets.
Google TV is the rebranded ver... |
| May 4, 2022 | Amazon promises $20 Bn in Indian exports by 2025 | Amazon committed to facilitating exports of Indian goods worth $20 billion in the coming three years. The announcement came in its 2022 Exports Digest. Averaged out, that translates to around $2 billion a year in exports since 2015, when th... |
| Aug 5, 2021 | Amazon India launches 5th fulfillment centre in Telangana | Advertisment
Shri K T Rama Rao, Minister for Municipal Administration & Urban Development, Industries & Commerce, and Information Technology from the Government of Telangana said:
“Amazon India’s significant investment in Telangan... |
| Jul 27, 2021 | Amazon com : AWS Cloud can help lower carbon footprints in Asia Pacific | A new report by 451 Research, part of S&P Global Market Intelligence, finds that computing in the cloud is five times more energy efficient than on-premises data centers in the Asia Pacific region.
Moving computing workloads from on-pre... |
| May 16, 2021 | Amazon India introduces miniTV, a free video streaming service | Advertisment
"miniTV is completely free and will not require a separate app. While Prime Video requires a Prime subscription and has a collection of amazing Amazon-Originals and various latest movies in English and several Indian lang... |
| May 15, 2021 | Amazon launches free in-app video streaming service ‘miniTV’ in India | Amazon has launched a video streaming service within its shopping app called miniTV which is a free service available only in India for now, a move widely being looked at as a means to capture more users’ time.
Amazon already has a robust p... |
| Apr 16, 2021 | Amazon sets up USD 250 million fund to back Indian startups | American e-commerce giant Amazon has unveiled a USD 250 million venture fund to back Indian startups and entrepreneurs focusing on digitizing small and medium businesses (SMBs), improving farmers’ productivity, and enabling healthcare acces... |
| Apr 12, 2021 | With its Perpule acquisition, mom and pop stores are central to Amazon’s India strategy | Amazon’s Smart Stores program, for instance, is a subset of its payment service Amazon Pay. Through Smart Stores, Amazon digitizes a kirana store’s product catalog, then makes the catalog fully viewable by scanning a QR code. A customer who... |
| Apr 12, 2021 | With its Perpule acquisition, mom and pop stores are central to Amazon’s India strategy | Amazon is acquiring a startup devoted to digitizing neighborhood stores in India — and it’s all part of a bigger fulfillment strategy.
At the end of March, Amazon bought Perpule, an India-based tech company that helps local mom and pop stor... |
| Mar 31, 2021 | Amazon buys Indian retail tech startup Perpule to extend reach to offline retailers | With an eye to deepen its reach in offline retail, Amazon India has acquired Perpule, a Bengaluru-based retail tech startup that offers point-of-sale (POS) devices to brick-and-mortar shops allowing them to accept digital payments.
Regulato... |
| Feb 24, 2021 | Walmart’s Flipkart to deploy over 25,000 electric vehicles in India by 2030 | India’s Flipkart said on Wednesday it will deploy more than 25,000 electric vehicles in its supply chain by 2030 as the Walmart-owned e-commerce giant looks to achieve a 100% transition to electric mobility in the next 10 years.
The Bangalo... |
| Dec 15, 2020 | This Is How Much Plastic From Amazon Deliveries Ends Up In The Ocean | Millions of pounds of plastic packaging from Amazon deliveries ends up in the ocean every year, ... [+] according to a new report. Pictured: Turkish world record-holding free-diver Şahika Ercümen dives amid plastic waste in the Bosphorus in... |
| Sep 14, 2020 | Amitabh Bachchan to Partner with Amazon as Alexa’s First Indian Celebrity Voice | Advertisment
Amazon said one can invoke the conversation between Alexa and Amitabh Bachchan and make the celebrity talk to you by saying "Hey Alexa, Say hello to Amitabh Bachchan" into any Alexa-enabled device.
Talking on the is... |
| Aug 11, 2020 | Amazon India saw 2X jump in Prime members during the two-days shopping fest | Amazon’s yearly festival Prime Day has achieved a new landmark during the 48-hour sale in India started on August 6. The e-commerce giant has recorded a 2X jump in Prime membership subscriptions throughout the shopping festival compared to ... |
| Aug 10, 2020 | Amazon reports record seller participation in Prime Day in India | Amazon has amassed at least 1 million subscribers for its Prime loyalty program in India, the e-commerce giant revealed today in a long rundown of how its platform fared during last week’s Prime Day in the world’s second largest internet ma... |
| Jul 24, 2020 | Amazon India to open 10 new fulfillment centers to strengthen its presence in the country | American e-commerce giant Amazon is doubling down in India ahead of its marquee festive season sale which kicks off in the last quarter of the year in the country.
The Seattle-headquartered company on Thursday said it is opening 10 new fulf... |
| Jun 26, 2020 | Amazon launches ‘Smart Stores’ in India to win mom and pop | For Amazon, it’s never too late to try something in India. The e-commerce giant is exploring ways to further spread its tentacles in the largely offline, technology-free neighborhood stores in one of its key overseas markets.
The American f... |
| Apr 23, 2020 | Amazon India rolls out new program to list local shops as sellers | E-commerce giant Amazon has launched an India first initiative ‘Local shops on Amazon’, a program to enable small shops and retailers to sell their products online.
The program looks to enroll local shops and retailers of any size across ca... |
| Mar 25, 2020 | COVID-19: Flipkart temporarily suspends services | Walmart-owned Flipkart has temporarily suspended its operations in view of the 21-day nationwide lockdown due to the Covid-19 outbreak.
“We are temporarily suspending operations. Your needs have always been our priority and our promise is t... |
| Nov 13, 2019 | Amazon rolls out Project Zero in India, empowers brands to remove counterfeit products | Sale of counterfeit or fake products remains one of the major problems for online shoppers and brands in India. In an effort to eliminate counterfeit products from their platform, e-commerce giant Amazon has launched a new initiative, Proje... |
| In a ‘lost’ interview, Jeff Bezos revealed why he chose books as the ‘best product’ to sell on Amazon | Amazon might be a $1.5 trillion “everything store” today. In the beginning, it was just books — and Jeff Bezos had a reason for that hyper-specificity.
Bezos explained why he chose to only sell books on his website — at least, at first — in... |
| Amazon Onboards Amitabh Bachchan. Soon Alexa Will Reply in Big B’s Voice | From 2021, Bollywood megastar Amitabh Bachchan will lend his voice to Amazon Alexa where users can hear jokes, weather, poems, motivational quotes, advice, and more in his voice. The tech giant has roped in Bachchan as Alexa’s first-ever ce... |
| Amazon Touts SMB Revenue Growth During Festive Months; Over 4K Sellers Crossed INR 1 Cr In Sales | Ecommerce giant Amazon in its annual report revealed that 4,152 sellers surpassed INR 1 Cr in sales during the festive season promotions, while the number of sellers who sold goods over INR 1 Cr or ‘crorepati sellers’ grew 29% year-on-year.... |
| Amazon Looks To Bring More Sellers On Board Post Jio-Facebook Deal | Ecommerce giant Amazon will be investing INR 10 Cr ($1.3 Mn) in its ‘Local Shops on Amazon’ to bring more sellers onboard.
“Recognising the urgent need during these times, we are pledging INR 10 Cr to immediately expand our pilot to onboard... |
| Amazon Pumped INR 650 Cr In Its Wholesale Unit In India During Festive Season | US-based ecommerce giant Amazon has infused fresh capital of INR 650 Cr (approx $87 Mn) into Amazon Wholesale (India), according to regulatory documents. This comes shortly after it infused INR 1,000 Cr ($134 Mn approx) in its Indian paymen... |
| Amazon Suits Up For Insurance, Expands Warehousing Space To Boost India Play | While Flipkart has acquired Walmart’s B2B business to power its wholesale play, Amazon’s digital payments venture Amazon Pay has entered the insurance distribution business by partnering with Mumbai-based motor insurance provider Acko Gener... |
| Amazon wants us to believe the robots are coming — but most people won't find them useful | Amazon and several startups showed off the latest in robotics at the e-commerce giant's re:MARS conference in Las Vegas last week.
Robots are increasingly in the home and elsewhere, but they can only do a few useful tasks.
Amazon is expandi... |
| UPS, FedEx respond to India’s Covid crisis, mobilizing their logistics networks to deliver relief | Global logistics companies UPS and FedEx are providing critical aid to India as Covid cases there topped 20 million, including more than 222,000 deaths.
UPS announced Wednesday that its philanthropic arm, The UPS Foundation, is pledging $1 ... |
| Amid Global Backlash & ‘MakeAmazonPay’ Trends, US Etailer Announces Bonus For India Employees | US-based ecommerce giant Amazon, on Monday, announced a ‘special recognition bonus’ for its India operations staff, worth INR 6,300 for full-time employees and INR 3,150 for part-time employees in the country. The bonuses are in line with s... |
| Amazon expands air cargo service to India even as company cuts costs | Amazon is launching its dedicated Amazon Air cargo service in India, the service’s first market in Asia.
Amazon is expanding its in-house logistics arm even as CEO Andy Jassy looks to cut costs elsewhere inside the company. |
| Amazon Cancels Non-Priority Orders To Deliver Essentials On Time | As India entered the 21-day lockdown period to prevent the spread of coronavirus, ecommerce players are temporarily suspending their operations or limiting it to only essential items. Amazon India has also notified consumers that it’ll only... |
| Watch Jeff Bezos drive Amazon’s new electric rickshaw | Following a successful pilot across several cities, Amazon India has announced that by 2025, its delivery fleet will include 10,000 electric vehicles.
The 10,000 EVs will include both 4-wheeled vehicles as well as 3-wheeled rickshaws, pictu... |
| Number Of Prime Subscribers Doubled During Prime Day, Claims Amazon India | Video streaming platform Amazon Prime, run by ecommerce giant Amazon witnessed a surge as its new subscriber base doubled during August’s Prime Day Sales as compared to last year. Globally, it claims that Prime members saved $1.4 Mn in the ... |
| Flipkart Suspends Operations Temporarily Amid 21-Day India Lockdown | With India going into a complete lockdown for the next 21 days, ecommerce giant Flipkart decided to temporarily suspend all operations and services for the time being.
The company made the announcement on its official website. It said, “The... |
| Flipkart Records Sale of Goods Worth INR 2,600 Cr During Big Savings Day Sale | Ecommerce giant Flipkart is estimated to have posted INR 2,600-2,700 Cr in gross merchandise value (GMV) during its five-day Big Savings Day sale, from August 6-10, 2020, sources in the know of things told Economic Times.
GMV is the total v... |
| Amazon Adds ‘Pay Later’ Option To Revive Falling Sales | Amazon India’s digital payments service Amazon Pay has launched instant credit service — Amazon Pay Later — to mitigate the impact of the ongoing economic slowdown in the upcoming sales. Launched in beta, Amazon Pay Later service is now ava... |
