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Amazon India head Amit Agarwal replaces Google’s Rajan Anandan as IAMAI chairman
Posted on 25th June 2019 |
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Amazon India Senior Vice-President and Country Head Amit Agarwal has been named as the new chairman of Internet and Mobile Association of India (IAMAI) on Tuesday. He succeeds former Google India MD Rajan Anandan. “Agarwal assumes office at a time when the industry is going through a growth trajectory with more than 500 million internet users in India,” IAMAI said in a statement. |
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Online retailer Amazon invests Rs 450 crore in India digital payments arm
Posted on 22nd June 2019 |
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Online retailer Amazon has invested Rs 450 crore in its digital payments arm Amazon Pay (India). The funding would help the Seattle-based company tap India's booming digital payments market and compete with Walmart-owned PhonePe, Alibaba-backed Paytm, and Google's mobile payment service Google Pay. The funding came from Singapore-based Amazon Corporate and Mauritius-based entity Amazon.com, according to regulatory documents filed by Amazon, which were sourced from business intelligence platform Tofler. |
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Amazon plans to tap students, housewives to speed up deliveries
Posted on 19th June 2019 |
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New Delhi: Amazon India is on its way to speed-up its deliveries during peak season by offering part-time employment to student, housewives and retired professionals. Beside the proper item collection, quick and reliable delivery is the most important part of the e-commerce business. |
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Amazon India most attractive employer brand, says survey; here are others on the list
Posted on 17th June 2019 |
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New Delhi: E-commerce giant Amazon India is the most attractive employer brand in the country followed by Microsoft India and Sony India, says a survey. According to the Randstad Employer Brand Research (REBR) 2019, released Monday, Amazon scored high on financial health, utilisation of latest technologies and a strong reputation. |
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Amazon says working with government to unblock export policy issues
Posted on 15th June 2019 |
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In its quest to increase net revenues from the global selling programme (GSP) to $ 5 billion by 2023, global e-commerce company Amazon is working closely with the Indian government to solve policy issues. Apart from focusing on encouraging sellers from India to ship their products to USA, Europe, Japan and other countries, the e-commerce giant is hopeful that some of the recent changes in the country’s approach towards exports will boost GSP. |
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Amazon US online market share estimate cut to 38% from 47%
Posted on 14th June 2019 |
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A closely watched researcher has cut its estimate of Amazon.com Inc.’s share of the U.S. e-commerce market after incorporating new figures from the company. EMarketer Inc., among the most widely cited sources for estimates of U.S. online retail sales, says it now expects Amazon to account for 37.7% of online commerce this year, down from a prior estimate of 47%. The new market share numbers were reported earlier Thursday by the Information. |
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Amazon to shut restaurant delivery service in US
Posted on 12th June 2019 |
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Amazon.com Inc said on Tuesday it would end its U.S. restaurant food delivery service on June 24, giving in to intense competition from GrubHub Inc, DoorDash, Uber Technologies' Uber Eats services. "A small fraction of Amazon employees are affected by this decision, and many of those affected have already found new roles at Amazon," the company said in a statement. "Employees will be offered personalized support to find a new role within, or outside of, the company." |
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Amazon dethrones Google as top global brand: Survey
Posted on 11th June 2019 |
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London: US retail giant Amazon has moved past hi-tech titans Apple and Google to become the world's most valuable brand, a key survey showed on Tuesday. The brand value of Amazon surged by 52 per cent to USD 315 billion, global market research agency Kantar said in its 2019 100 Top BrandZ report. |
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Indian-origin activist who yelled at Bezos arrested
Posted on 8th June 2019 |
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Indian-American activist Priya Sawhney, who interrupted Amazon Founder and CEO Jeff Bezos' on-stage talk, has been arrested on trespassing and burglary charges, according to media reports. Sawhney, 30, rushed on stage during Amazon's "re:MARS" event here on Thursday and asked Bezos to do something about "chicken farms". |
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Amazon’s Jeff Bezos interrupted by activist during onstage talk
Posted on 7th June 2019 |
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Amazon.com Inc. Chief Executive Officer Jeff Bezos was interrupted by an animal-rights activist who rushed onto the stage where he was being interviewed during a conference in Las Vegas. A woman raising concerns about conditions inside an Amazon chicken supplier ran on just as Bezos was being interviewed by Jenny Freshwater, who runs forecasting and capacity planning at Amazon. |
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