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After Singapore and India, Shopify launches in Indonesia and Malaysia
by Enricko Lukman Last month, Canada-based e-commerce platform Shopify partnered with Singapore’s SingTel as its distribution partner in Asia. The e-commerce company launched in both Singapore and...
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Rakuten wants to bring kawaii to Singapore, plans site launch later this year
by Steven Millward Japanese e-commerce titan Rakuten (JSD:4755) opened an office in Singapore at the start of this year, even though it doesn’t operate a site in the country. But that’ll change soon,...
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Tokopedia on 4th anniversary: 13.4 million products sold last year
by Enricko Lukman Tomorrow is a big day for Indonesians as it will be the country’s 68th independence day, but it’s also a big day for a particular marketplace startup by the name of Tokopedia 1 as it...
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Luxury travel deals site The Luxe Nomad gets funding worth $700,000
by Steven Millward Singapore-based luxury travel startup The Luxe Nomad has secured yet another funding round to boost its growth. Today’s sum is an exact S$888,232 (that’s $700,000), led by...
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With help from a local partner, Chinese e-store Jingdong launches in Singapore
by Steven Millward China’s top B2C e-commerce site has spread its wings today and landed in Singapore. Jingdong has partnered with Singaporean e-tailer iKnow to makes this happen, and now Jingdong has...
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Taembe, Vietnam’s Diapers.com, gets funding to take on baby goods e-commerce...
by Anh-Minh Do Taembe, the Vietnamese version of Diapers.com just got a a nice undisclosed amount (purportedly six figures) of funding to grow its business. The funder is a local Vietnamese person....
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Philippine Startup ‘City Delivery’ Doesn’t Just Deliver Your Lunch
by Phoebe Magdirila A number of food delivery startups are now filling stomachs across Asia. One of them is Rocket Internet’s FoodPanda which is now growing strong in Southeast Asia. In the...
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Indonesia’s Train Ticket Scalpers Exploit Online Booking System
by Enricko Lukman Credit: Banten Today With the Lebaran holiday starting today in Indonesia, people looking to take a train home are facing a common problem at this time of year: ticket scalpers. This...
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Rakuten Global E-commerce Expansion Weighs Down Q2 Profits
by Mahesh Sharma The aggressive international expansion of Japanese e-commerce giant Rakuten has continued to put pressure on the firm’s bottom line but it is confident the “super sales” and B2B2C...
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Guocool: Chinese Fruit E-Commerce Looks Pretty Damn Tasty
Have you ever looked at the internet and thought “I wish I could buy more sliced fruit on this”? If you have, then I have just startup for you. China’s Guocool is an e-commerce startup that’s focused...
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Alibaba Bans Messaging App WeChat, Pushes Weibo Instead
By Mahesh Sharma | TechCruncj A fleeting affair between two of China’s biggest tech successes has ended acrimoniously after e-commerce giant Alibaba banned sellers from using Tencent’s popular...
View ArticleSingtel Boosts Fab’s Asia Plans, Invests $10 Million
America’s design e-commerce site Fab announces today (via TechCrunch) an additional partner to its series D financing round in the form of Singaporean telco Singtel (SGX:Z74). The mobile giant forks...
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Foodpanda Adds New Restaurant Chains in Malaysia, Preps More Cities in India
Rocket Internet’s Foodpanda is on its bike again, prepping expansion to three new cities in India soon, and today adding two major restaurant chains to its line-up of eateries in Malaysia. The online...
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How Tiket Became Indonesia’s Biggest Ticketing Platform In Under 2 Years
Tiket is one of the biggest players in the online travel industry ແລະ has become an award winning platform for hotel, flight, and train ticket booking online in Indonesia. We just heard that June 2013...
View ArticleVietnam E-Commerce Startups Are Struggling In The Face Of Rocket Internet
As I reported last month, e-commerce revenues in Vietnam are set to hit $1.3 billion by 2015. And last year, I wrote that there are over 28 e-commerce sites in Vietnam. To add to this, the blinding...
View ArticleThailand’s BentoWeb Plans to Expand F-Commerce Platform Across Asia
A Bangkok based all-in-one e-commerce service startup, BentoWeb offers a ready-made online store that helps customers accept orders and payments from social networks and mobile devices. Now the...
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Page365 – Automated Facebook Commerce
ເຟສບຸກ is playing an important role in South-East Asia’s e-commerce growth. Thousands of stores promote and sell their products directly through Facebook Fanpages. Setting up a Fanpage and posting...
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Blibli Commemorates its 2nd Anniversary with New Look and More Plans
Blibli celebrated its second anniversary yesterday, and as part of that the company gave us some insight into its achievements so far and things it is going to offer to the customers in the near...
View ArticleShoppie Brings Mobile Coupons To Vietnam’s Shopping Centers
If you’ve been paying attention to Hanoi’s underrated startup scene, you’ll know that Shoppie, a mobile phone application dedicated to shopping (as the name implies), won Startup Weekend Hanoi a few...
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Can This Startup Put Local T-Shirt Printers Out of Business?
I woke up to an email in my inbox from a ສິງກະໂປ-based startup, in which the subtitle included, “aims to put local merchandisers and T-shirt printers out of business in five to eight years”. The...
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