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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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