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Amazon offers to buy 60% of Flipkart for $2 billion

Amazon has made an official offer to acquire a 60% stake in Flipkart. The company has even proposed a $2 billion breakup fee to prove its commitment on seeing out the deal. The offer is said to be on par with a previous one submitted by Walmart recently. Walmart plans to retain Flipkart's current structure (including company's current CEO Kalyan Krishnamurthy) while Amazon has made no such promises and wants to sign a non-compete deal with Flipkart's founders. Jeff Bezos refused to comment on the report. Anyway, Flipkart's investors and founders are leaning towards Walmart's bid and...



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