Amazon now in India
By Shalini Singh

Startups and technology site Pluggd.in has scooped the news about Amazon hiring key people in preparation of launching in India

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•  Amazon has hired Madhu M from Landmark (retail chain) to head its India books operations. Madhu is from IIM Ahmedabad and is now SVM at Amazon India (Chennai, where Amazon also has Kindle team) – he will head Amazon India operations.

•  Amazon is hiring across all levels in Non-Tech
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The Pluggd.in article also has details of how Amazon was in negotiations with Flipkart to buy it out