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Thursday, April 25, 2024
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Topic: Flipkart

Amazon India goes where no retailer has gone before for endangered art

After Walmart's $16 billion investment in Flipkart, the largest internet retailer's move of recruiting these unlikely suppliers is a sign of the fierce battle raging globally. 

Flipkart investors could force Walmart to take company public

Walmart Inc., the world’s largest retailer, could be forced to publicly list its newly acquired Indian e-commerce company, Flipkart Group, within four years at the request of a small minority of Flipkart shareholders, a public filing shows.

Last Laughs: Long-nosed politicians in Karnataka & no vacation this year for Rahul Gandhi

The best cartoons of the day, chosen by editors at ThePrint.

Plugged-In: Karnataka votes tomorrow, and the Supreme Court collegium meets today

With one month of intense campaigning coming to a close Thursday, the state is all set to elect 223 legislators to form a new legislative assembly.

What Walmart will do next after buying in India, selling in UK

With 6,360 stores from Argentina to Zambia, Walmart forgets that era of aggressive flag-planting is long over. This year its shares are down.

Forget about Dre: Son drops the mic when it comes to M&A gaffes

Masayoshi Son’s early reveal of a Walmart Inc. deal on Wednesday isn’t the first accidental M&A announcement. But it might be the biggest. Softbank Group...

Plugged-In: Walmart-Flipkart tie the knot, and the ‘namaz’ row refuses to end

Big money: It’s official, Walmart is buying 77 per cent equity in Flipkart for $16 billion, in what is to be the biggest-ever deal in the e-commerce space

`Oops’: Walmart’s Biggest Deal Ever, Announced by SoftBank’s CEO

Hours before Walmart was scheduled to unveil the largest acquisition in its history, Masayoshi Son, CEO of SoftBank Group, spilled the beans to a roomful of investors and journalists in Tokyo.

Thanks to Flipkart, India now a battleground for Walmart vs Amazon

Walmart has bid $15 billion for Flipkart Online Services Pvt, which could seal a triumph over Amazon.com Inc., which has been trying to take control of Flipkart with a competing offer.

Acquiring Flipkart is one of the many big risk & reward global games Walmart is playing

Walmart is venturing into other ambitious deals in the international market, but the payoff will take patience. 

On Camera

Imtiaz Ali obsesses over vulgarity, misses Chamkila’s cultural resistance against purity

Peter Manuel's ‘Cassette Culture’ showed the booming Bhakti music during the '80s and '90s when Anoop Jalota, Gulshan Kumar achieved success by singing the sanitised Bhajans.

Economists vs statisticians — the battle being fought over the soul of India’s GDP data

Economists say there are weaknesses in India’s GDP data. But statisticians claim the accusations are based on flawed understanding, saying while GDP has problems, the economists are looking in the wrong places.

India and Japan hold 10th round of consultations on disarmament, non-proliferation, and export control

The two sides also discussed ways to strengthen cooperation in outer space security, conventional weapons, and export control

These 6 states are key for Modi’s ‘400 paar’ target. They’re also where Opposition can stop him

While this contest looks so predictable in large swathes of our political landscape, it is also more keenly contested than 2019 in some states.