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Mukesh Ambani's Facebook partnership is a 'Jio' moment for India's $1 trillion e-commerce arena

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An innocuous WhatsApp “Hi" could end up transforming a $1 trillion industry. Facebook Inc. bought its way into India’s internet commerce sphere last week with a $5.7 billion investment in Reliance Industries Ltd., a sprawling conglomerate in everything from telecom to energy.

They launched their first pilot within days, a program covering three Mumbai neighborhoods where consumers can send that monosyllabic greeting to a designated number, bringing up an in-chat interface through which they then browse a catalog of goods on Reliance’s Jiomart, place an order and arrange for pickup.

That in itself is novel to much of the rest of the world -- shopping via a messaging platform. But in coming weeks, the pair are likely to add online payments

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