The government is working on the definition of 'e-commerce' to clear the air over key issues such as taxation and foreign investment in the burgeoning sector. Commerce and Industry Minister Nirmala ...

If 2020 was the year of the e-commerce boom, 2021 was the year the industry hit major challenges: Data privacy changes deeply impacted merchants’ social media ads, and supply chain issues forced ...

If mail order from a catalog had not been so popular in the Western world, perhaps e-commerce would have had a slower start. However, online ordering has been so ubiquitous that in order to entice ...

Are Flipkart and Snapdeal e-commerce portals, platforms or marketplaces? Are they small enterprises or large? The government will soon answer these questions by defining e-commerce units and their ...

The clearest way to define the social commerce landscape is through archetypes – all of which exist within the broader universe of e-commerce – and these are live selling, conversational commerce, ...

The digital commerce landscape is undergoing a seismic shift. Marketing executives across brands of every size face mounting pressure as customer acquisition costs soar and consumer expectations for ...

The government is said to be planning to push the World Trade Organization to lift a moratorium on customs duties on electronic transmissions. Such a move by the WTO would allow tariffs to be imposed ...