Amazon.com Inc. is ending its experiment with electronics-focused pop-up stores, shuttering 87 kiosks located inside shopping malls, Whole Foods Market locations and Kohl’s stores around the U.S.

“After much review, we came to the decision to discontinue our pop-up kiosk program,” an Amazon spokeswoman said.

Facebook Inc. Chief Executive Officer Mark Zuckerberg said the future of his company’s product development will be focused on private, ephemeral and encrypted communication, a striking change for the social network that built its business on open sharing.

More people want to interact privately or in more intimate groups online, instead of in “the digital equivalent of a town square” provided by Facebook and Instagram, Zuckerberg said Wednesday in a blog post. To serve that demand, the world’s largest social-networking company will rebuild many of its features, he wrote,

Walmart, which acquired 77% stake in Flipkart for $16 billion last year, was prepared to face regulatory changes and still believes that the country remains an important growth market for it.

Brett Biggs, chief financial officer and executive vice-president, Walmart, said in a conference call on March 5 that the company knew there would be “legislation changes” and it will have to make its way through it.

Reliance Capital Thursday claimed that it is hopeful of pairing its debt by around Rs 12,000 crore over the next three to four months, by when it expects to complete the stake sale in Reliance Nippon Life Asset Management andReliance General Insurance. The company has also lined up a few more non-core assets to monetise. The Anil Ambani group-run company is sitting on a debt of over Rs 18,000 crore.

Ajay Singh-promoted budget airline SpiceJet, which is making efforts to improve its distribution in the international market, has appointed travel technology solutions provider Amadeus as its first global distribution partner.

The entire ticketing inventory will continue to be available to domestic travellers through existing channels as well as with Amadeus with a different pricing, the airline said in a statement.

The Reserve Bank of India has fined 19 banks, including India’s largest bank State Bank of India and ICICI Bank, for a total of about Rs 40 crores in relation to non-compliance of its guidelines on global payments network SWIFT .

PSU bank SBI informed exchanges Saturday about the penalty of Rs 1 crore for delayed implementation of the daily reconciliation of Swift transaction logs with effect from Feb 20, 2018 at 226 branches.

New Delhi: Telecom operators Vodafone Idea, Bharti Airtel and Reliance Jio have paid the government about Rs 6,000 crore in spectrum dues slated for March 3, but debt-ridden Reliance Communications has so far not deposited its dues of Rs 21.5 crore, sources said.

A source privy to the development told PTI that India's largest telecom operator Vodafone Idea has made payment of over Rs 3,042.7 crore to the Department of Telecom towards its spectrum dues (that is, deferred payment instalment for spectrum bought in auctions).

NEW DELHI: Maruti Suzuki India Wednesday launched two CNG variants of its newly launched hatchback WagonR priced at ₹4.84 lakh and ₹4.89 lakh (ex-showroom Delhi).

The factory fitted WagonR S-CNG will be available in Lxi and Lxi(O) variants powered by 1 litre engine and priced at ₹4.84 lakh and ₹4.89 lakh, respectively, the company said in a statement.

Tata Motors plans to bring a plethora of electric vehicles catering to not just fleet owners and government sales but also to private consumers with aspirational products going ahead, according to a senior company official.

The auto major, which sells Tigor EV in the domestic market, mostly supplying for state-owned EESL's orders, has also decided to adopt a focussed market approach for its EV sales, targeting 20-25 locations across India.

Mumbai: Indian bourses furthered gains in early trade on Wednesday, with benchmark indices Sensex and Nifty adding 157 points and 53 points, respectively, on sustained buying mainly in stocks of finance, metal and capital goods sectors.

The BSE barometer Sensex opened positively at 36,544.86 and further consolidated its gains to trade at 36,599.69, climbing 157.15 points, or 0.49 per cent, over the previous close. It had gained nearly 379 points to close at 36,442 on Tuesday.

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