Bengaluru: India’s biggest online retailers Flipkart and Amazon are pulling out all the stops to woo top smartphone brands such as Apple, Samsung, Xiaomi and Huawei to exclusively sell their wares on their online marketplaces, as they joust for an edge during the Diwali shopping season.

Amazon Pay India, the online payment business of e-commerce giant Amazon, has received fresh funding of Rs 590 crore, according to the Registrar of Companies (RoC) documents, which was sourced by FE from business intelligence platform Paper.vc. Fresh funds have been infused by US-based parent Amazon.com and Singapore-based Amazon Corporate Holdings. Prior to this in July, the e-tailer had infused Rs 230 crore in the payments business.

E-commerce firm Amazon India is focusing on exclusive tie-ups with brands across categories to drive sales this festive season, Manish Tiwary, VP, category management, told FE. “Festive season is the best time to acquire new customers as well as retain the existing ones. Be it in categories such as mobile where we have an exclusive deal with Xiaomi to sell Redmi 6A,

E-commerce major Amazon is confident of clocking strong growth this festive season in India, driven by availability of large selection of products and big brands as well as new customers coming onto its platform, especially from tier II and III towns.

Amazon India, which competes head-on with rival Flipkart, will kick off its festive sale from October 10-15, lining up new launches across various categories and dishing out discount offers to woo Indian shoppers.

New Delhi: E -commerce companies are sparing no effort—and expense—to woo consumers to loosen their purse strings during the upcoming festival season. The biggest online retailers in India are expected to collectively spend an estimated ₹ 400 crore on advertising to promote Diwali sales, a 10% increase from that of last year, according to top media buyers.

Tech giants Microsoft, Amazon and Google are joining forces with international organisations to help identify and head off famines in developing nations using data analysis and artificial intelligence, a new initiative unveiled Sunday.

Soaps, face packs, shampoos and medicinal products made from cow urine and dung may soon be just a click away as an RSS-backed centre says it is set to sell these on e-commerce major Amazon India.

Deen Dayal Dham, a centre run by the RSS in Farah town of Mathura in Uttar Pradesh, will first put up a dozen products related to health, beauty and apparel on the website for sale, a manger at the centre said.

Amazon India’s flagship campaign ‘Apni Dukaan’, to connect with customers in the remotest parts of the country, could run into copyright issues. Pune-based businessman Ravi Jain, who registered apnidukaan.com as a domain name back in 2007, wants Amazon to stop using the campaign.

Amazon is investigating allegations that some of its staff sold confidential customer data to third-party companies particularly in China, The Wall Street Journal reported Sunday.

According to the newspaper, which did not give figures, employees of the online giant sell internal data and other confidential information -- usually through intermediaries -- to merchants who sell their goods on the US giant's website.

Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, the richest person on the planet, said Thursday he was creating a philanthropic fund to help homeless families and launch preschools in low-income communities, committing an initial USD 2 billion to the cause. Bezos made the announcement on Twitter a year after asking for ideas on how he could use his personal fortune — now estimated at more than USD 160 billion — for charitable efforts.

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