Infibeam in July 2015. Infibeam was founded in 2007 by Vishal Mehta, a Cornell and MIT Sloan alumnus. After working for Dell and Amazon.com in the US for five years, Mehta returned to India in 2007 and started Infibeam along with a group of Flipkart employees. He funded the company by selling his personal assets rather than opting for external equity funding. The company was started with an initial capital of 100-150 million. Infibeam.com started as an automobile portal in 2007, but later turned into an online retailer. In 2010, Infibeam launched 'Pi', India's first e-book reader. In 2008, Infibeam acquired
Maplin (retailer) closed their doors with the Maplin company ceasing to exist. In September 2018, UK technology news site The Register reported that Peter Jones has bought the Maplin name and related IPs. The Maplin site has been since brought online and as of September 2018 is waiting for the official relaunch. Maplin (retailer) Maplin Electronics, trading as Maplin, was a retailer of electronic goods in the United Kingdom and Ireland. In June 2017, there were 217 Maplin stores. The company also operated an extensive online, telephone and mail order service. On 28 February 2018, Maplin went into administration, placing 2,500 jobs