Chinese e-commerce giant to promote Indian SME products
Sai Nikesh | The Dollar Business The Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba on March 30, 2015, announced its future business plans in India. As part of his visit to India, Alibaba's Chairman Jack Ma met the Prime Minister of India, Narendra Modi, and expressed the Company’s willingness to empower small businesses in India and also discussed the modalities involved. In his meeting with the Prime Minister, Ma discussed way and means of implementing the Business-Business (B2B) model in promoting organic farm goods, handicrafts and other products from a rural to the global level. Pointing out to the Business-Company (B2C) model as an American model, the Alibaba founder was learnt to have stated that the ‘Business-Business (B2B) model is best suitable ...
PM calls for online marketing of tribal products
Sai Nikesh | The Dollar Business The Prime Minister of India Narendra Modi on Wednesday, urged the Ministry of Tribal Welfare to identify growth centers within tribal areas and ensure proper development of education, health and sports facilities in the country. Speaking at a high level meeting on tribal welfare, the Prime Minister asked the Ministry to focus on key areas like Technology Penetration and Infrastructure, among others, as a part of tribal welfare. Pointing to the role of technology as one of the key objectives towards tribal welfare, the Prime Minister asked the Ministry to work towards the implementation of ‘technology penetration’ – for instance, electricity and mobile phone reach – in the tribal areas.The PM also called for the ...
