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Indian e-commerce company co-founded by Bansal in 2007; Walmart bought control in 2018.
Google is selling the Fitbit Air in India for Rs 13,999, about $146 and roughly 47% more than the $99 it charges in the US. A band pitched elsewhere as the affordable screen-less option arrives as a premium buy where Indian startups compete on cost.
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Google is testing Flipkart purchases inside Gemini in India, six months after its shopping tools there still sent buyers to outside sites to pay. Flipkart stays seller of record, so Google gains the screen where shoppers choose while the sale remains Flipkart's.
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Google is testing a Gemini Buy button that sends Indian shoppers to checkout at Flipkart, where it holds a stake bought for about $350 million in 2024. Retailers selling through AI assistants now have to choose whose checkout screen they will accept inside the answer.
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The $100m cheque is Navi's first institutional money and lands roughly 35% below the $2bn Sachin Bansal sought in 2024. It also sets a visible comparable ahead of an IPO refiling.
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PhonePe's 11.19 billion August transactions and Google Pay's 7.91 billion still dominate UPI, but Navi supplied about a sixth of the month's new payments, and October's 0.4% merchant fee will pay by ticket size.
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The regime announced on September 15 ends zero-MDR on UPI after more than six years. The rate has not been notified, and the 0.4% figure in circulation would collect about four times what the rail costs to run.
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Orders grew about 2.9x since November while the store count grew 1.7x. The other 1.7x is each store doing more work, which is what density actually buys.
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Walmart's Indian arm has roughly tripled Minutes' daily orders since November, and its dark stores are already about as productive as Instamart's. Third place is now contestable.
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