Although Amazon has had a couple ofsoftware development centresin India for quite sometime now, Amazon is now reportedly entering Indian markets in 6 months.
Rumours suggest that the Indian operations will be headed by Madhu M who was previously in charge of the buying & merchandizing division of the popular retail chainLandmark Storesand is currently the SVM at Amazon.com.
Further,Pluggd.innotes that Amazon is currently building a team and is hiring aggressively across all job categories in Tech and non-tech divisions, after spotting atweetfrom Amazon’s HR.
However it is not clear whether these job placements are for the existing development centres in Bangalore, Hyderabad and Chennai or for the upcoming Amazon India office.
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It also states that the rumored acquisition deal withFlipkart.com, which is touted to be India’s Amazon equivalent and coincidently started by former Amazon employees, Sachin and Binny Bansal, apparently fell through since Flipkart demanded a very high buyout price.
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Vikas SN is the Indian Editor at The Next Web and is based out of Bangalore, India. He is extremely interested in Indian startups and shiny(show all)Vikas SNis the Indian Editor at The Next Web and is based out of Bangalore, India. He is extremely interested in Indian startups andshiny gadgets. You can follow him onTwitter,Google+or contact him via email at vikas@thenextweb.com
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