Origin Indonesia | Driving the e-commerce growth in Southeast Asia with digital ads
Digital advertising has come a long way and has changed rapidly in the past few decades. In this digital era, it’s more challenging to win over customers as the average attention span of an ad viewer has become shorter than ever. Brands are increasingly investing in innovative advertising ideas and content-led marketing campaigns. With 98% of China’s internet users accessing the world wide web on…
ORIGIN | E-commerce players in Southeast Asia need to work harder as consumers wise up
Left to right: Sharmeen Looi, Co-founder of ShopBack MY; Aaliyah Soraya, GM of Commerce.Asia Enterprise; Kenneth Kuan, Sales Director of Kiple and Adrian Oh, co-founder of ecInsider, speak at the e-commerce panel at Origin conference on June 21, 2019.
Online retailers in Southeast Asia need to focus efforts on meeting the demands of their target markets as regional consumers are becoming…
ORIGIN Malaysia | Halal Tourism, Malaysia e-Commerce, Future of AI
Malaysia poised to be the gateway to ASEAN and beyond. Malaysia has witnessed regional growth sprouting up – making it a Regional Digital Hub to penetrate the Middle East & India market.
Speaking of business links between the Middle East and Malaysia, one can never ignore the halal industry which is booming globally. Halal tourism is one of the fastest growing facets of the global travel…
AWS and Exabytes launch $1.1M cloud skills initiative to train Malaysians for high-demand tech jobs
Amazon Web Services (AWS) has entered into a MYR 4.3 million ($1.06 million) Social Impact Agreement with Exabytes to equip hundreds of Malaysians, particularly those from B40 and M40 communities (lower and middle-income households), with cloud computing and artificial intelligence (AI) skills to meet the country's fast-growing digital workforce demand.
The duo said in a statement on Thursday…
Xinhua Silk Road: Digital tech enables fragrant pear industry to burgeon in N. China county
BEIJING, Jan. 22, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- With a click on their cellphone screens, fruit farmers in Xi County, north China's Shanxi Province can finish irrigating and fertilizing their Yulu fragrant pear orchards, which is nothing but a common sight there.
Photo shows a joyful farmer looking at a Yulu fragrant pear in Xi County of Shanxi Province, north China.
Famed for its time-honored pear…
Newborn Town Inc. Expects 2025 Revenue of RMB 6.76-7.00 Billion, Up Over 32% Year on Year
HONG KONG, Jan. 21, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- Newborn Town Inc. (Newborn Town or the company, stock code: 09911.HK), a leading global social entertainment company, released its unaudited operating data for 2025.
For the year ended 31 December 2025, the company's total revenue is estimated to reach approximately RMB 6,760 million to RMB 7,000 million, reflecting a year-on-year increase of approximately…
Sanabil Accelerator by Orbit Batch 3 unveils 11 innovative startups on demo day
Sanabil Accelerator by Orbit will host its third Demo Day on Jan 28 at the Sanabil Hub in Riyadh, featuring eleven early-stage startups from Saudi Arabia and beyond.
The startups are building solutions in sectors key to Saudi Arabia markets, including ad-tech, esports and gaming technology, travel and tourism, food tech, AI and AI infrastructure, edtech, e-commerce, health and wellness,…
CMES Robotics Expands AI-Driven Warehouse Automation Footprint with New Logistics Projects
How Innovative Companies Are Solving Palletizing and Depalletizing Challenges Across eCommerce, Logistics, Food & Beverage, and Manufacturing
SEATTLE, Jan. 20, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- CMES Robotics, a leading provider of advanced AI vision solutions, today announced it has secured additional automation projects with a premium food ingredient manufacturer in North America, marking continued…
Meta, Maxim’s Group, MEDILASE, and Omnichat Showcased Strategic Use of WhatsApp for Social CRM and Conversational AI
Leveraging Meta's technologies, WhatsApp is transformed into a pivotal business tool that engages customers across their entire lifecycle, converting initial interest into qualified leads and direct purchases while maximising ROI.
Enabling seamless integration of third-party AI, Omnichat grants clients the ultimate flexibility to build a truly customised AI workforce on WhatsApp, establishing a…
Deeplumen Unveils UCP for Java Infrastructure, Powering the Future of Agentic Commerce
What to Watch after OpenAI's Ad-testing and Google's UCP Launch for Agentic Commerce Integration?
SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. 19, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- The race to commercialize AI has reached a pivotal moment. While the industry tracks OpenAI's move into consumer ad-testing and Google's strategic launch of the Universal Commerce Protocol (UCP) last week, the shift toward autonomous commerce transaction…