Flipkart is an online E-commerce portal that helps you in getting what you need be it a pen, Phone, T-shirts etc, . delivered at your door step or sometimes in your hand.
Flipkart is a Singaporean Company which operates on India and has its headquarters at Bangalore.
It was founded in 2007 by Sachin bansal and Binny Bansal
revenue ? 2, 846 crore FY2014, (US$ 1 billion in gross merchandise value 2013-14)
For better understanding about flipkart look at its wikipedia page
Flipkart
First thing sold on flipkart - It was a book, of course - "Leaving Microsoft To Change The World" by John Wood. The order was placed on October 22nd, 2007(22:24:17, to be exact) and was delivered to Mahbubnagar, a city 150KM outside of Hyderabad.
Flipkart was first of its kind in India. Flipkart has seen a tremendous rise due to availability of Cash-on-delivery in flipkart while others like e-bay, amazon did not have it. Moreover it is seen as an Indian company.