eCommerce

J&T Global Express (J&T Express), a global logistics service provider affiliated with e-commerce platforms such as TikTok, Temu, SHEIN, reported first-quarter 2026 parcel volume of 8.33 billion, a 26.2 percent increase year-on-year, with average daily volume reaching 92.5 million.

Malaysia-based Carsome Group Inc, Southeast Asia’s largest integrated car e-commerce platform, Singapore's CarTimes Group, and Japan's JACCS have reached a strategic auto financing partnership in Singapore.

A new study by the UK-based Juniper Research projects that spending on agentic commerce will reach $1.5 trillion by 2030, rising from early pilot deployments expected in 2025 and 2026.

TikTok has invested $125 million in Ho Chi Minh City, the southern economic hub of Vietnam, the municipal Department of Finance said on Thursday.

Carousell Singapore, an e-commerce platform, has expanded its delivery services through a partnership with SPX Express, a courier affiliated with e-commerce platform Shopee, providing additional options for users to send and receive secondhand items.

In the next phase of commerce, consumers may not arrive as visitors clicking through pages, but as instructions carried by agents. The businesses that learn to speak the language of those agents—through structured data, seamless experiences, and machine native trust—will be the ones that remain visible when it matters most.

Thailand’s Trade Competition Commission (TCCT) has introduced new guidelines for e-commerce platforms, setting out standards on pricing and business conduct aimed at curbing unfair trade practices and preventing market dominance in the country’s fast-growing digital economy.

Indonesia is sending a clear message to foreign e-commerce platforms, particularly those linked to China, even as it stops short of an outright ban, according to market analysts Momentum Works.

Indonesian tech giant GoTo Group, known for Gojek and Tokopedia, reported adjusted EBITDA of Rp2 trillion ($118 million) for the full year 2025, exceeding its previously issued guidance of Rp1.8 trillion to Rp1.9 trillion, according to the company’s Wednesday release.

Maybank Investment Bank has reduced Singapore-based tech giant Sea's FY26-27 adjusted earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation, and amortization (EBITDA) estimates by 8 percent to 10 percent on lower margin assumptions.