eCommerce
Recognizing startups in the second edition of ORIGIN Innovation Awards
Nominations for the second edition of ORIGIN Innovation Awards, APAC’s accolade for tech innovations, are now open. Organized by TechNode Global, the Awards is established with…
Workshop: How To Prepare Your Business For The Next Ecommerce Wave: Livestreaming
Tech Insights Series (Brown Bag Workshop Session): How To Prepare Your Business For The Next Ecommerce Wave: Livestreaming DETAILS: About this Event: Livestream commerce exploded…
ORIGIN 2020 | Everything you need to know about livestreaming eCommerce
Taobao Live, the e-commerce livestreaming platform, raked in $7.5 billion within 30 minutes of starting presales for 11/11 Singles Day. This phenomenal figure attests to the…
Vietnam’s ‘eBay for motorcycles’ gets big funding
Vietnam is the world’s fourth biggest market for motorcycles, so it’s not surprising there’s a startup that wants to get in on the high-octane action. OKXE, a marketplace for…
‘New retail’ and the tech changing how we shop
What is the future of shopping? The whole concept of how we shop is changing dramatically with the integration of new technologies like augmented and virtual reality, artificial…
Lazada gets yet another new CEO
Lazada has a new CEO. If you’ve only just got round to remembering the name of the previous one, Pierre Poignant, you can be forgiven since he was only in the job for about 18…
Webinar: The future of shopping on June 24 2020
Tech Insights Series (Covid-19 special): The future of shopping DETAILS: Synopsis: No industry is left unscathed from the COVID-19 effect, with the retail sector being one of the…
Grab wants to be the future of retail
Grab already has a bunch of things that can be used by offline stores and retailers, such as GrabPay and GrabFood, But Grab wants to cover more of the action. It wants to be the…
Vietnam’s online spending to triple to $35b by 2025
Vietnam’s government has some bold new predictions for its already fast-growing ecommerce sector, reports Reuters. The nation predicts that, by 2025: Online spending to hit $35…
Ex-Lazada exec admits defeat with Vietnam fashion store
Despite raising $12 million and being run by a former Lazada executive, one of Southeast Asia’s most audacious new online shopping startups has filed for bankruptcy. Leflair aimed…
