The Flipkart-ebay deal and the high stake battle with Amazon
Flipkart has been and will continue to make acquisitions to increase scale India's top e-commerce firm Flipkart has raised $1.4 billion in its biggest fundraising to date as it takes on US tech giant Amazon.com Inc for a larger share of the country's burgeoning online retail market. Chinese social media and entertainment firm Tencent Holdings Ltd, the world's biggest software company Microsoft Corp and online marketplace eBay Inc participated in the funding round, Flipkart said in a statement on Monday, which will value the Indian company at $11.6 billion. That is lower than the $15 billion valuation achieved at its last fundraising in 2015, reflecting how competition has intensified in the e-commerce sector as companies vie for a slice of the world's fastest-growing internet services market. Amazon last year said it would invest over $5 billion in India, and has recently expanded into online video and grocery shopping, seeking to expand aggressiv...
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