Dear Walmart-Flipkart, we need some answers from you

Will the protagonists in the $16-billion deal answer these 10 questions please?

Nivedita Mookerji 

Nivedita Mookerji

It’s been a week since the world’s largest M&A deal in the e-commerce space was struck, and curiosity around the transaction has only grown.

To help us crack the puzzle of the $16-billion Walmart-Flipkart deal, will the protagonists or the stakeholders answer these 10 questions please? The first question: Why did the American retail giant Walmart decide to put $16 billion for a controlling stake in a loss-making ecommerce company Flipkart? Surely, it could have done things differently, possibly like Amazon did—starting an online business on its own in India. True that ...

First Published: Wed, May 16 2018. 12:01 IST