eCommerce

Alibaba to host conference call on Thursday to discuss split plans – report

It was reported that Alibaba intends to split its operations into six standalone units, each managed by a different chief executive.

Sea’s revenue rises 25.1% year-on-year to $12.4B in 2022

Sea Limited, Singapore-based e-commerce giant, said Tuesday that its revenue rose 25.1 percent year on year to $12.4 billion in 2022, underpinned by e-commerce growth.

Grab retires $600M in 2026 debt with extra cash – report

The Singapore-based ride-hailing and delivery company completed the transaction last week, bringing its debt under an outstanding term loan to $517 million, down from the previous balance of $1.117 billion. Grab also has about $200 million in other bank debt.

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Grab has liquidity to drive operations, says S&P Global Ratings

The stable rating outlook on Grab reflects S&P Global Ratings' view that the company will maintain sufficient liquidity to tide it through until it reaches positive EBITDA and cash flow by 2025.

Carousell integrates Laku6 team, AI-first diagnostics technology to drive mobile recommerce expansion across Greater Southeast Asia

Carousell Group, the Singapore-based multi-category platform for secondhand, has integrated the Laku6 team's expertise and proprietary artificial intelligence (AI)-first diagnostic technology with Carousell Group's tens of millions of monthly active users across Greater Southeast Asia to launch new features to make selling and buying secondhand electronics…

China’s JD.com to shut e-commerce sites in Indonesia, Thailand – report

JD.com is China’s largest online retailer and its biggest overall retailer, as well as the country’s biggest Internet company by revenue.

Shopee’s parent firm Sea to increase investment in Malaysia

Sea Ltd,a Singaporean global consumer internet company, through its e-commerce platform Shopee, has committed to expand its investments in Malaysia. SEA's proposed expansion plans in Malaysia involving the setting up of cloudservices, data hosting and processing, as well as new logistics e-commerce warehouse.

The importance of uplifting the F&B industry: How automating and using big data can pave the way for supply chain management and restaurants 

Beyond joining the crowd of payments and financing, what we foresee is the need to focus on digitizing and automating the backend; specifically, procurement and supply chain management, especially so in the wake of Covid-19.

TechNode Global’s Top 10 interviews in 2022

In 2022, we have the privilege to interview venture capital firms and tech startups we find interesting. We hope you have enjoyed reading them. Here are our most-read interview articles: