Ecommerce in India is buzzing word now and many companies / start-ups are getting funded heavily but Venture Capitalist. E-Commerce sites like FlipKart, bestylish, Myntra, Yebhi are started TV Campaigns also. I guess they will create more reach to Indian Consumer, after all Indian Ecommerce is having 500 Bl. USD potential.

Now India is having good number of Internet connection problem, It’s working fine with Metro and Tyre 1 cities. Even 3G connections is also started & 3G started changing life of Bloggers & Individuals. Even banks are promoting now for online shopping. It’s so far so good situation for Indian Ecommerce. There are few problems with shipping & payment gateway but overall, it seems that Indian ecommerce is growing with good pace same like Social Media.

When any newbie is/are planning to jump in to Indian Ecommerce they will think which sector they should focus or what the highly potential area for it. I just come to know about very good statistics about Indian Ecommerce by Ebay India. Ebay called it as ebay census 2011. The following data is based only on Ebay India, so It’s upto you to take decision on following data/information.

Top 10 Segments / Product verticals growing in Indian Ecommerce

• Cell Phones
• Wrist Watch
• Solitaire Pendants
• India Commonwealth Stamps (Might be Commonwealth games)
• Currency Notes (Might be Lucky/special number currency notes sold over Ebay)
• DVDs
• Pen Drives (Major 8 GB)
• Homeopathic Remedies ( Surprised ? Even me too)
• Headphone
• PC Video Games (This means Indians are not doing piracy)

Top 10 Ecommerce Hub of India

• Delhi
• Mumbai
• Jaipur
• Chennai
• Bangalore
• Hyderabad
• Ahmedabad
• Kolkata
• Chandigarh
• Pune

Top 10 Brands sold over ebay India

• Sony
• Nokia
• Samsung
• Apple
• Reebok
• Seagate
• Casio
• Micromax
• LG
• Canon

Did you notice apart from Reebok all other brands are dealing with Electronics products specially Cell Phones.

Top 10 Segments / Product verticals exporting from India using Ecommerce.

• Solitaire Pendants
• Wrist Watches
• DVD, HD DVD & Blu-Ray (Bollywood Masala ? )
• India Commonwealth Stamps
• Natural & Homeopathic Remedies
• PC Games
• Sarees (We love our culture)
• Lampwork
• Crystal & Mineral Specimens
• Belly Dancing Apparel (Ohh my god)

While Surfing I just come to know that Google is having one more company at his plate. This time Picnik, Online Photo Editing Site. Few months back Google acquire reCAPTCHA.

For People who are not knowing what is Picnik

Picnik is a fast, fun, easy to use and powerful set of photo editing tools for editing, sharing and printing images using any internet browser on any computer platform. Picnik is integrated with a wide variety of websites like Picasa Web Albums, Facebook, Flickr, Yahoo! Mail and Photobucket. With Picnik, you can edit your photos wherever they are from wherever you are.

Why Google acquire Picnik ? (in their own word – from their blog)

We’re very impressed with the Picnik team and the product they’ve created, and we’re excited to welcome them to Google. We’re looking forward to collaborating closely with them to improve the online photo editing experience on the web. In the meantime, we encourage you to head to Picnik, import some of your photos from Picasa Web Albums, Flickr or Facebook and try your hand at photo editing in the cloud!

Check official announcement at Googles Blog and Picnik blog

In 1996, Stanford graduate students Sergey Brin and Larry Page famously started the search  company in a Stanford dorm room. The two eventually moved the company to a Menlo Park garage, which the company quickly outgrew. Sun Microsystems founder Andy Bechtolsheim was the company’s first investor with other notable investors including Ron Conway, John Doerr, Mike Moritz and Ram Shriram.

Now Google is such a giant company. Number one search engine with highest market share. Google is having best vision for acquiring company. Till now Google had acquire many companies like Orkut, You Tube, Feed Burner, Double click and some more. Now this thing extended up to reCAPTCHA. Google has officially announcer that they had acquire reCAPTCHA.

Check following text from Google’s own Blog.

we’re excited to welcome the reCAPTCHA team to Google, and we’re committed to delivering the same high level of performance that websites using reCAPTCHA have come to expect. Improving the availability and accessibility of all the information on the Internet is really important to us, so we’re looking forward to advancing this technology with the reCAPTCHA team.

You can check official Google Post : Teaching computers to read: Google acquires reCAPTCHA