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<ul><li>Amazon India is converting its biggest sellers into wholesale companies in to order to be compliant with India’s new e-commerce rules. </li><li>Cloudtail and Appario — two of Amazon’s largest vendors —- will sell to a battery of third-party ‘preferred’ vendors according to reports. </li><li>Some of the items that are sold by Cloudtail and Appario are currently unavailable on Amazon India as the company changes its affiliates’ business models.</li></ul>Some items might be unavailable on Amazon India right now but that will soon change as Amazon India is reportedly turning two of its largest vendors — Cloudtail and Appario — into wholesale companies. In order to be compliant with India’s new e-commerce rules — that bars e-commerce companies from selling products supplied by affiliate companies on their shopping sites — Amazon is going to start selling via vendors instead of selling directly to customers <a href="https://tech.economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/internet/amazon-plans-wholesale-makeover-to-become-ecommerce-fdi-compliant/67826264">according</a> to a report by ETtech. Retail to wholesale The e-commerce policy only dictates that e-commerce giants like Amazon India can’t sell products to customers if it the vendor supplying the product is a company in which Amazon has stake. While Cloudtail is a 49-51 joint venture between Amazon and Catamaran India, Appario is a 49-51 joint venture between the online e-commerce giant and the Patni Group. If Cloudtail and Appario were to become wholesale vendors instead, then they would only be supplying their products to third-party ‘prefered’ vendors through Amazon Business in India — Amazon’s Indian B2B marketplace. These third-party ‘preferred’ vendors would then sell those products on the Amazon India portal. Every wholesale vendor has the right to pick its preferred retailer for the products they are selling. Sources told ETtech that Amazon hasn’t completely set aside the idea to sell off its stake to order to comply with the new guidelines, but the wholesale route is a faster process, it will comply with the new forms and Amazon still continues to enjoy the value from the both the companies. The good news for consumers is that items supplied by Amazon will still be available on the site. Category managers at Amazon india are currently figuring out which vendors are ‘preferred’ sellers for each of the brand’s categories. The Amazon Echo smart speakers are still on sale, even though Appario is no longer the supplier. Other brands should be live in the marketplace soon once the business model has been realigned. The new guidelines were issues on December 26 after which, both e-commerce giants — Walmart and Amazon — teamed up to seek an extension of the February 1 deadline but with no success. Local e-commerce players are looking forward to the much anticipated relief from competing against deep discounts and traditional retailers are hoping to regain some market share. See also: <a href="https://www.businessinsider.in/the-indian-government-just-dealt-a-serious-surprise-to-amazon-and-flipkart-heres-what-that-means-for-online-shoppers/articleshow/67272151.cms">The Indian government just dealt a serious surprise to Amazon and Flipkart — Here’s what that means for online shoppers</a> <a href="https://www.businessinsider.in/amazon-walmart-owned-flipkart-set-back-by-new-e-commerce-rules-that-help-mukesh-ambanis-reliance-retail/articleshow/67751026.cms">Mukesh Ambani may be the surprise winner from India's new rules hurting Amazon and Walmart</a> <a href="https://www.businessinsider.in/indias-new-e-commerce-policy-has-rivals-flipkart-and-amazon-teaming-up-to-counter-the-new-directive-and-the-republic-day-sale-will-probably-be-their-last/articleshow/67366996.cms">India’s new e-commerce policy has rivals Flipkart and Amazon teaming up to counter the new directive — and the ‘Republic Day’ sale will probably be their last</a>

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If you are happy buying your favourite products on <keyword id="2508995" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="20" keywordseo="Flipkart-and-Amazon">Flipkart and Amazon</keyword> – that’s the reason of headache for smaller ecommerce companies. In a written complaint to the <keyword id="97393" type="ORGANIZATION" weightage="20" keywordseo="Competition-Commission-of-India">Competition Commission of India</keyword>, a group on online sellers have alleged that <keyword id="6354742" type="COMPANY" weightage="20" keywordseo="Flipkart">Flipkart</keyword>'s WS Retail and <keyword id="18635" type="CITY" weightage="20" keywordseo="Amazon">Amazon</keyword>'s <keyword id="2682122" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="20" keywordseo="Cloudtail">Cloudtail</keyword> are offering heavy discounts when selling private label products. This in turn is damaging their business. 
 
These vendors have alleged that WS Retail and Cloudtail offer phones, gadgets and appliances at ‘rock-bottom prices’. 
 The retailers of private labels AmazonBasics and Flipkart SmartBuy have been tendered special benefits that haven't been disclosed publicly, the All India Online Vendors' Association, a group of 2,000 sellers on various online platforms, contended in a letter to the <keyword id="47183" type="ORGANIZATION" weightage="20" keywordseo="CCI">CCI</keyword>. The letter dated March 2, 2017, was reviewed by <keyword id="77091" type="COMPANY" weightage="20" keywordseo="The-Economic-Times">The Economic Times</keyword>. 
 "Flipkart has always conducted its business with transparency, integrity and in full compliance of all applicable laws,” a company spokesperson told The <keyword id="6474066" type="COMPANY" weightage="20" keywordseo="economic-times">Economic Times</keyword>. "Our private label, Smart-Buy, has enjoyed rapid success primarily due to the superior quality of products. We've shared the success of the brand and empowered sellers by licensing it to them but only after they meet our rigorous quality checks. The popularity of SmartBuy and the increased business has led to tremendous gains for sellers.” 
 
When Indian start ups are complaining against predatory pricing of foreign players, it’s ironic to see, the same ecommerce company indulging in predatory pricing and destroying the ecommerce ecosystem of the country.

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The Confederation of All India Traders (<keyword id="853920" type="General" weightage="80" keywordseo="cait" source="Orion">CAIT</keyword>) has complimented the <keyword id="12291507" type="General" weightage="50" keywordseo="competition-commission-of" source="Orion">Competition Commission of</keyword> India (CCI) for conducting raids on the offices of <keyword id="2682122" type="General" weightage="50" keywordseo="cloudtail" source="Orion">Cloudtail</keyword> and Apario, both sellers of <keyword id="18635" type="General" weightage="100" keywordseo="amazon" source="Orion">Amazon</keyword>. It is a much awaited welcome step of CCI which will surely vindicate the substance of various complaints made by the CAIT against Amazon and <keyword id="6354742" type="General" weightage="50" keywordseo="flipkart" source="Orion">Flipkart</keyword>, said CAIT Secretary General Praveen Khandelwal, while commenting upon the action of the CCI. Since past three years, the CAIT has been raising strong objections against alleged mal-practices of Amazon and Flipkart and filed complaints with CCI beside strongly fighting delaying tactics of Amazon and Flipkart in various courts as well. Khandelwal, in a statement said that role of Narayan Murthy should also be investigated while conducting raid. The situation demands that all the records in paper and computers of both the sellers pertaining to the complaints of should be confiscated so that these can not be tempered. "The seizure of records will amply substantiate the charges made by CAIT against Amazon and <keyword id="6094771" type="General" weightage="50" keywordseo="appario" source="Orion">Appario</keyword>. Beside, these two sellers, other top 20 sellers of Amazon in last five years, should also be properly scanned since Amazon is flouting all laws and FDI policy of the Government and trying to creating a monopolistic market in India since a long time and there is no transparency on Amazon e-commerce portal thereby causing huge damage to small retailers of the country and collateral damage to the consumers," said the statement. The trade body further said that predatory pricing, deep discounting, loss funding, exclusive sale of branded products in collusion with respective corporate companies, owing inventory are some of the fundamental issues raised by the CAIT."All these practices are explicitly prohibited under Press Note 2 of FDI policy of 2018," the statement added. Biggest hit verticals due to mal-practice of Amazon and Flipkart include Mobile, FMCG, Consumer Durables, clothing, Readymade Garments, Beauty care products, Watches, Gift items, and furnishing fabric, it said. SEE ALSO: <a target="_blank" class="c-link c-message_attachment__title_link" href="https://www.businessinsider.in/business/startups/news/ola-may-be-rushing-into-electric-cars-when-scooters-continue-to-underperform/articleshow/91141264.cms"></a><a target="_blank" class="c-link c-message_attachment__title_link" href="https://www.businessinsider.in/tech/news/google-will-now-allow-users-to-remove-personal-information-from-their-search-results/articleshow/91142502.cms">Google will now allow users to remove personal information from their Search results</a> <a target="_blank" class="c-link c-message_attachment__title_link" href="https://www.businessinsider.in/india/news/adani-enterprises-sets-up-a-wholly-owned-media-arm/articleshow/91128727.cms"></a><a target="_blank" class="c-link c-message_attachment__title_link" href="https://www.businessinsider.in/science/space/news/skywatching-on-april-30-venus-and-jupiter-will-look-like-they-are-about-to-collide/articleshow/91145254.cms">Skywatching on April 30: Venus and Jupiter will look like they are about to collide</a>

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In the ongoing <keyword id="6387088" type="General" weightage="20" keywordseo="campus-placement" source="Orion">campus placement</keyword> season in the <keyword id="55119" type="General" weightage="20" keywordseo="Indian-Institute-of-Technology" source="Orion">Indian Institute of Technology</keyword> (<keyword id="108320" type="General" weightage="80" keywordseo="iit-kanpur" source="Orion">IIT Kanpur</keyword>), a total of 49 offers above ₹1 crore were received in the first eight days. "In the first eight days, the institute received 47 international offers. This is a big jump of 150 per cent over last year when 19 international offers were received. The highest packages so far are USD 274,250 for international and ₹1.2 crore for domestic," an official statement said. The top recruiters are Axtria, EXL, Graviton, Goldman Sachs, <keyword id="6653" type="General" weightage="20" keywordseo="icici-bank" source="Orion">ICICI Bank</keyword>, Intel, Microsoft, OLA, Rubrik, Samsung, Quadeye, Uber, Tiger Analytics, among others. "IIT Kanpur has witnessed excellent hiring trends across sectors this time. The numbers are very encouraging and much higher than the previous years. This growing trust the recruiters are bestowing upon the institute and its students is reflective of IIT Kanpur's resolution to thrive for excellence," the IIT-K spokesperson said. A total of 1,041 students have secured jobs through acceptance of 156 PPOs and 885 placement phase-1 offers while 287 companies have finished their recruitment process, it added. SEE ALSO: <a target="_blank" class="c-link c-message_attachment__title_link" href="https://www.businessinsider.in/business/startups/news/amazon-acquires-its-largest-seller-cloudtails-subsidiary/articleshow/88433863.cms">Amazon acquires its largest seller Cloudtail’s subsidiary</a> <a target="_blank" class="c-link c-message_attachment__title_link" href="https://www.businessinsider.in/finance/news/income-tax-department-raids-xiaomi-oppo-and-oneplus-offices-in-india/articleshow/88432807.cms">Income Tax Department raids Xiaomi, Oppo and OnePlus offices in India</a>

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<ul><li>Skechers buys 49% stake in Indian retail joint venture with Future Group.</li><li>Amazon had reportedly signed a term sheet last year for a proposed stake purchase in Kishore Biyani's venture.</li><li>Amazon and Future Group had put talks on hold as new e-commerce rules kicked in February 2019.</li></ul> Amazon was reportedly in talks to buy stake in one of India's leading retail chains, the Future Group. Tripped by the new e-commerce rules brought in by the Indian government, the two companies put those negotiations on hold. However, within a couple of weeks, Future Group's Kishore Biyani has found another keen buyer, the American footwear brand, Skechers. Biyani <a href="https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/industry/services/retail/skechers-buys-future-groups-49-in-joint-venture-for-independent-run/articleshow/67968514.cms" data-type="tilCustomLink" target="_blank">reportedly</a> sold his 49% stake in the existing joint venture to Skechers for a sum of ₹5.8 billion. Skechers now <a href="https://entrackr.com/2019/02/skechers-exit-future-group/?utm_campaign=fullarticle&amp;utm_medium=referral&amp;utm_source=inshorts" data-type="tilCustomLink" target="_blank">plans</a> to open 80-100 more stores, of which the company will directly own 20 stores. Amazon had <a href="https://entrackr.com/2018/11/amazon-acquire-9-5-stake-future-retail/" target="_blank">signed a term sheet </a> to buy anywhere between 10% and 15% stake in Future Group for up to $700 million in August 2018. In September last year, Amazon along with PE firm Samara Capital signed a deal to acquire food and grocery retail chain More. Less than a year before that, the Jeff Bezos-led firm had bought 5% stake in Shoppers Stop for $26.35 million. Physical retailers are the immediate benefactors India's new e-commerce rules. The new norms are expected to boost sales for brick-and-mortar stores by taking away the discounts available to consumers online. CRISIL has estimated that it could increase revenue for offline retailers by ₹100 billion to ₹120 billion by 2020. The promise of India's retail market is no secret to other companies either. “Few markets match the potential for growth like India does, which is why we entered the market initially, and recently decided to buy the minority stake in our joint venture,” said David Weinberg, chief operating officer of Skechers. For Amazon, the challenges in India are only rising. The company had to add new sellers and delist about 500,000 products from its sellers <keyword id="2682122" type="PERSON" weightage="20" keywordseo="Cloudtail">Cloudtail</keyword>, Appario and Shoppers Stop as the govt prohibited online marketplaces from selling products through companies in which they own stakes. As Amazon went back to the drawing board, Skechers swept away the deal. SEE ALSO: <ul class="breadcrumb clearfix"><li class="youhere"><a>Mukesh Ambani May Be The Surprise Winner From India's New Rules Hurting Amazon And Walmart</a></li></ul>

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Among 100 firms, Amazon emerged as the top recruiter at the IIM Ahmedabad with 18 offers, as the institute's final round of placements came to an end. 
 
Consulting firms, such as Accenture Strategy, Bain &amp; Company, McKinsey &amp; Company and The Boston Consulting Group, made the highest number of offers. Following Amazon was McKinsey &amp; Company; it made 15 offers. 
 
Among global banks, Goldman Sachs was the largest recruiter, picking nine students. In sales and marketing, Hindustan Unilever made seven offers followed by Procter &amp; Gamble, SC Johnson and Samsung, with six offers each. With 10 offers, TAS was the largest recruiter in the general management sector. 
 
Twenty-firms from other sectors such as fast-moving consumer goods, agricultural inputs, bank, financial services and insurance, food production and plantation extended 50 offers. Of these, Godrej and TGI were recruiters, hiring eight and four students each. 
 
According to Asha Kaul, chairperson, placements committee, IIM-A, there were more than 40 new recruiters this year. 
 
Among first-time recruiters were Pioneering Ventures, PepsiCo, Flourish Foods and Tilvila. Regular recruiters such as YES Bank, ADM, Reckitt Benckiser and Amazon–Cloudtail reaffirmed their confidence in the programme and placement process. 
 
Offering students flexibility and choice to build careers in sectors of their preference, IIM-A continued to provide this year the facility of making “dream” applications to firms of their choice in a subsequent cluster even with an offer in hand. This year, 110 such “dream” applications being made in this way. 
 
Apart from consulting, Citibank, Credit Suisse, Deutsche Bank, Goldman Sachs, JPMorgan, Kotak IB and Standard Chartered also took part in the placements process. 
 
This year, seven students also opted out of the placements process to work on their own ventures, under the guidance and mentorship of Centre for Innovation, Incubation and Entrepreneurship.

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When researchers try to study the leopards in Malaysia they have a hard time telling the cats apart because instead of the amazing spotted coloring of a normal leopard, these leopards have a completely black coat ... or so it seems.Using images caught with infrared light, just published <a href="http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/jwmg.901/abstract">in The Journal of Wildlife Management</a>, researchers at the James Cook University in Australia unveiled the black leopard's amazing spots.Much like each human fingerprint is different, or each zebra has different stripes, a leopard's spots are unique and scientists can use their patterns to identify individual animals.If you look at the black leopards, or visit them in zoos, your eyes might catch spots hidden underneath their black coats. But while we can sometimes see the spots, the camera traps that the researchers use to monitor the leopards don't pick the spots up distinctly enough for researchers to tell the cats apart and count the population:<div class="KonaFilter image-container display-table full"><div><div class="image on-image"><a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/blacktigersdream/19742657991/in/photolist-w5Ahp2-8XBgTP-aAyRon-e1bDYb-cJ9KVN-o4zn7v-5rgvqa-8kXRwL-6azmop-e1YZpx-8dbxr5-6HtGM1-jAEv9c-e6zEAz-5LmNBA-8XBgW6-iC9noN-rFBLS-8XEkxC-qe3VpU-ndb2A4-c6hkFq-6qp9YD-7Xi4jn-8XBgYv-cEGWrC-8zQ2bu-61LfZm-767y85-5rj39A-8XEkGb-8XBgPk-9wacuz-7CS3HG-7oRK8S-4vigyt-8reM36-ec8mgw-8JoDpy-ajvTFe-5eKqfq-aGyDyx-6aKKSj-8XEkw9-767yrs-yieU6-pNsMiq-4N3Ba4-ykFwN-68CM1i">flickr Cloudtail</a></div></div></div>By using the camera trap's infrared flash during the day (tricking it by blocking the light sensor) researchers were able to take some fantastic images of the leopards' unique spots:<div class="KonaFilter image-container display-table full"><div><div class="image">Rimba/Bill Laurence</div></div></div>How the infrared light made the spots stand out has to do with the light's wavelength.<div class="KonaFilter image-container display-table full"><div><div class="image">Rimba/Bill Laurence</div></div></div>The infrared light has a longer wavelength than visible light, under that longer wavelength the less pigmented background coat color, the black, becomes lighter while the more heavily pigmented spots remain dark.<div class="KonaFilter image-container display-table full"><div><div class="image">Rimba/Bill Laurence</div></div></div>These spot patterns amazingly look like the spots of normal leopards, just hidden in the black of the cat's coat:<div class="KonaFilter image-container display-table full"><div><div class="image on-image">Vimeo</div></div></div>And they are just as useful for identifying individual animals: These infrared images let the researchers identify 94% of the individual leopards they caught on camera.Researchers and conservationists are monitoring the black leopard population because these beautiful animals face increasing threats from both habitat loss, as <a href="http://news.mongabay.com/2013/1115-worlds-highest-deforestation-rate.html">oil palm plantations</a> replace natural forest, and <a href="http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0006320714004121">poaching</a>.With this new tool, researchers can monitor how the leopard population is faring in an increasingly changing environment.As <a href="http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2015-07/jcu-mbl071315.php">study researcher Laurie Hedges said in a statement</a>: "This new approach gives us a novel tool to help save this unique and endangered animal." <div class="margin-top"> <h3>NOW WATCH: <a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/waterfall-climbing-fish-goby-evolution-hawaii-2015-5">Scientists are astonished by these Goby fish that can climb 300-foot waterfalls</a></h3> <div> <div> <div class="ooyala-video-player" data-video-autoplay="false" data-video-id="djMXJkdTpXxb0FwhBHlUoNNT3m6RuJH9" data-player-variable="ooyalapopvideo" id="ooyalaplayer_popvideo" style="width:1280px;height:720px"></div> </div> </div> </div>

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<ul><li>Morgan Stanley has warned that Walmart may exit from Flipkart. </li><li>India’s new e-commerce rule brought in tighter FDI guidelines in order to boost Indian marketplaces. </li><li>Under new rules, Flipkart will have to do away with 25% of its products on the platform.</li></ul>Walmart’s biggest ever deal in history could soon be a thing of the past. Walmart’s acquisition of Indian unicorn Flipkart for $16 billion was one of the world’s biggest e-commerce deals. It now stands in jeopardy as the retail giant could make an exit from Flipkart in the wake of India’s <keyword id="7170085" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="20" keywordseo="new-e-commerce-rules">new e-commerce rules</keyword>, according to a report by <a href="https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/industry/services/retail/morgan-stanley-warns-walmart-may-exit-flipkart-post-new-fdi-rules/articleshow/67843595.cms">Morgan Stanley</a>, which said an exit by Walmart is not out of the question with the Indian e-commerce market becoming “more complicated.” “Despite the recent changes in regulations, we remain optimistic abo the ecommerce opportunity in India given the size of the market, the low penetration of ecommerce in the retail channel and the pace at which it is growing. As Walmart scales in India, the company will continue to partner to create sustained economic growth across agriculture, food and retail. Future investments will support national initiatives and will bring sustainable benefits to the country,” a Walmart spokesperson told <a href="https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/industry/services/retail/morgan-stanley-warns-walmart-may-exit-flipkart-post-new-fdi-rules/articleshow/67843595.cms">ET.</a> India’s new e-commerce rules have introduced tighter guidelines that govern Indian e-commerce companies. With the new rules, global players like Amazon or the Walmart-Flipkart entity, are barred from selling products from vendors they have own a stake in. According to the Morgan Stanley report, Flipkart will have to do away with 25% of its products on the platform. The new rules have mounted tremendous pressure on both Amazon and Flipkart, which together command over <a href="https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/small-biz/startups/newsbuzz/amazon-india-reportedly-closing-in-on-flipkart/articleshow/63407725.cms">60%</a> of the market share in Indian e-commerce. According to a report in <a href="https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/small-biz/startups/newsbuzz/amazon-flipkart-sales-fall-a-third-as-fdi-norms-kick-in/articleshow/67826139.cms">ET</a>, Amazon and Flipkart saw a third of their sales volume disappear in just three days, after the new rules came in. Last week, Amazon <a href="https://www.businessinsider.in/amazon-india-finds-way-around-new-e-commerce-rules-for-cloudtail-and-appario/articleshow/67831376.cms">reportedly</a> already began removing several items from its website sold via its vendor Cloudtail including products under the brand name “Amazon Basics”. Walmart which has <a href="http://fortune.com/2018/02/20/walmart-ecommerce-3/">failed</a> to make an impact on e-retail globally, had placed its bets on Flipkart to start off its digital wing. Flipkart being one of the biggest e-commerce platforms of India, put Walmart in direct competition with Amazon. However, with the change in scenario it is possible that Walmart might not want to incur a <a href="https://www.bloombergquint.com/technology/walmart-expects-flipkart-to-suffer-rs-5300-crore-loss-this-year#gs.JsJmhTUD">loss</a> in India. See Also: <a href="https://www.businessinsider.in/amazon-india-finds-way-around-new-e-commerce-rules-for-cloudtail-and-appario/articleshow/67831376.cms">Amazon may have found a way around India’s new e-commerce rules</a> <a href="https://www.businessinsider.in/amazon-and-walmart-which-owns-flipkart-stocks-on-sale-as-indias-new-e-commerce-policy-kicks-in/articleshow/67807890.cms">The sale on Amazon and Walmart stocks in US may worsen as new India's e-commerce rules kick in</a> <a href="https://www.businessinsider.in/amazon-walmart-owned-flipkart-set-back-by-new-e-commerce-rules-that-help-mukesh-ambanis-reliance-retail/articleshow/67751026.cms">Mukesh Ambani may be the surprise winner from India's new rules hurting Amazon and Walmart</a>

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