From Amazon to Alibaba: Flipkart has a new role model

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There are few countries which are so diametrically different as China and India. But in some respects – such as their geographic and demographic size, and huge regional variations – there are similarities. This latter fact has caught the attention of the founders of India’s largest e-commerce firm, Flipkart, which has no decided to model its growth and development on China’s largest online marketplace, Alibaba, and not Amazon.