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Online marketplace Amazon India is opening 'seller cafes' across 24 cities and towns to offer on-ground help to merchants on its platform ahead of the festival season.

The founder of an online underworld bank that allegedly laundered billions of dollars for criminals has been sentenced to 20 years in prison.

In the survey, 98 percent respondents voted for online shopping, 96 percent for social networking, and 95 percent for banking, emailing and booking tickets.

E-commerce giant Amazon on Wednesday announced the launch of 'Amazon Tatkal', an initiative that enables small and medium businesses (SMBs) to go online and sell products on Amazon.

Allowing full foreign ownership "supports our country`s e-commerce development, encourages and brings in the active participation of foreign investment, and furth excites market competition," the ministry said.

E-tailers allegedly indulged in cartelisation to sell products exclusively on select portals.

It is a new platform regulation as a way to affect the market position of US-headquartered tech companies.

JK Lakshmi is the first company to make a foray into the online space offering a basket of products, its Whole Time Director Shailendra Chouksey said.

The European Commission said on Tuesday its officers had raided several companies involved in selling consumer electronics online, concerned that firms may have worked together to distort prices.

Increasing Internet penetration and growing preference for online shopping is expected to push the digital commerce market to over Rs 1 lakh crore this year, a report said on Thursday.

Homegrown e-Commerce major Snapdeal on Tuesday launched a new initiative to help sellers on its platform get easy access to working capital to help them expand their business further.