e commerce
Online shopping web sites for retail sales direct to consumers. Providing or participating in online marketplaces, which process third-party business-to-consumer or consumer-to-consumer sales Business-to-business buying and selling. Gathering and using demographic data through web contacts and social media. Business-to-business (B2B) Electronic data interchange. Marketing to prospective and established customers by e-mail or fax (for example, with newsletters). Engaging in retail for launching new products and services. Online financial exchanges for currency exchanges or trading purposes
Paytm
Paytm is an Indian payment and commerce company based out of Delhi NCR, India. Launched in August 2010, it is the consumer brand of parent One97 Communications. The name is an acronym for "Pay Through Mobile."
In 2015, Paytm became the first Indian company to receive funding from Chinese eCommerce company Alibaba, after it raised over $625 million at a valuation of $1.5 billion. The Alibaba Group was the biggest stakeholder in Paytm parent company One97 Communications.In August 2016, Paytm received an investment from Mountain Capital, one of Taiwan-based MediaTek’s investment funds, which valued Paytm at of over USD$5 billion.
The company employs over 13,000 employees as of January, 2017 and has 3 million offline merchants across India. It also operates the Paytm payment gateway and the Paytm Wallet.
MobiKwik
MobiKwik is an Indian company offering a mobile phone based payment system. Customers add money to an online wallet that can be used for payments. The company reports a user base of 50 million customers.
MobiKwik was founded in 2009 by husband and wife team Bipin Preet Singh and Upasana Taku. Singh, a 2002 graduate of IIT Delhi, saw an opportunity to improve mobile recharge options. He seeded the company with USD$250 thousand of his own money, developed the website and payment options, and rented office space in Dwarka, Delhi. The initial service was a website with a closed wallet facility, but over the years, MobiKwik extended their service to mobile apps.
The company initially partnered with online merchants to make their wallet available as a payment option on e-commerce sites. In 2012, the company launched an e-wallet system which allowed users to deposit money online to use for bill payment and other features.
In September 2014, Express Computer reported how MobiKwik was partnering with GoDaddy and other international companies to help them comply with Indian payment regulations. As of April 2015, MobiKwik was used by 15 million users and claimed to be adding one million new customers every month, according to Forbes India Magazine.
On November 2016, MobiKwik launched its MobiKwik Lite app aimed at users in poor connectivity regions. In February 2017, the company announced plans to invest approximately USD$45 million to expand its user base from 50 million to 150 million users in 2017
Freecharge
FreeCharge is an e-commerce website headquartered in Mumbai, Maharashtra. It provides online facility to recharge any prepaid mobile phone, postpaid mobile, DTH & Data Cards in India. On 8 April 2015, Snapdeal acquired Freecharge in what is being referred to as the second biggest take over in the Indian e-commerce sector so far, after the buy out of Ibibo by rival MakeMyTrip, and the biggest Venture Capital exit in India to date. According to The Economic Times, the deal is expected to be anything around US$400 to US$450 million.
Amazon
Amazon is an American electronic commerce and cloud computing company that was founded on July 5, 1994, by Jeff Bezos and is based in Seattle, Washington. It is the largest Internet-based retailer in the world by total sales and market capitalization.
Amazon.com started as an online bookstore, later diversifying to sell DVDs, Blu-rays, CDs, video downloads/streaming, MP3 downloads/streaming, audiobook downloads/streaming, software, video games, electronics, apparel, furniture, food, toys, and jewelry.
The company also produces consumer electronics—notably, Kindle e-readers, Fire tablets, Fire TV, and Echo—and is the world's largest provider of cloud infrastructure services (IaaS and PaaS). Amazon also sells certain low-end products like USB cables under its in-house brand AmazonBasics. Amazon has separate retail websites for the United States, the United Kingdom, Ireland, France, Canada, Germany, Italy, Spain, Netherlands, Australia, Brazil, Japan, China, India, and Mexico.
Amazon also offers international shipping to certain other countries for some of its products. In 2016, Dutch, Polish, and Turkish language versions of the German Amazon website were launched. In 2015, Amazon surpassed Walmart as the most valuable retailer in the United States by market capitalization, and was in the third quarter of 2016 the fourth most valuable public company.
Flipkart
Flipkart is an electronic commerce company headquartered in Bangalore, Karnataka. It was founded in 2007 by Sachin Bansal and Binny Bansal (no relation). The company is registered in Singapore. Flipkart has launched its own product range under the name "DigiFlip" with products including tablets, USBs, and laptop bags. As of April 2017, the company was valued at $11.6 billion.
E-Bay
The company manages eBay.com, an online auction and shopping website in which people and businesses buy and sell a broad variety of goods and services worldwide. In addition to its auction-style sales, the website has since expanded to include "Buy It Now" shopping; shopping by UPC, ISBN, or other kind of SKU number (via Half.com); online classified advertisements (via Kijiji or eBay Classifieds); online event ticket trading (via StubHub); and other services.
It previously offered online money transfers (via PayPal), which was a wholly owned subsidiary of eBay from 2002 until 2015. The website is free to use for buyers, but sellers are charged fees for listing items and again when those items are sold.
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