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Shopee heads the list of the top 10 m-commerce players in Vietnam for the first quarter of this year. The findings were released in a ranking by Iprice Group and App Annie Intelligence, which ranked shopping apps according to the number of monthly active…
Singaporean m-commerce platform Carousell has raised US$56 million from Naspers, the parent company of the Philippines’ online marketplace OLX. As part of the deal, Carousell will also acquire OLX Philippines, with the transaction due to be completed by the…
A number of factors have contributed to make Asia a mobile first region. Affordable smartphones and an emerging middle class, coupled with increased network speeds and relative decreases in mobile data costs have lead to a situation where mobile is the…
More shoppers are using smartphones and tablets to do business with Korean online retailers – both Koreans and foreigners. Chinese shoppers – particularly those who have visited Korea and fallen in love with its products – have been a particular boon to the…
Southeast Asian e-commerce company Lazada Group has opened a tech hub in Bangkok, Thailand to drive strategic mobile development initiatives. The Lazada Tech Hub in Thailand will focus on advancing the design and engineering of Lazada’s mobile shopping and…
Online payment gateway provider iPay88 has seen a sharp rise in mobile traffic with its total online payment transactions representing close to 70% of the Malaysian market. Chan Kok Long, executive director of iPay88 said this was refelctive of the growth of…
The shift of ecommerce sales from the desktop to mobile devices has been under way in China for a couple of years. And according to data from the end of 2015, the tilt toward mobile is clear. Analysys International Enfodesk reported that nearly two-thirds of…
Mobile commerce, millennials and faster fulfilment will drive retail innovation this year, according to commercial supply chain specialist Manhattan Associates. It predicts a rapid migration to more personalised shopping, with mCommerce presenting big…
Asia’s mComerce boom is creating a growing target for online fraud and cybersecurity risks, according to fraud consultancy Fico Group. Criminals who used to focus on ATM skimming are turning their attention online in an effort to compromise credit and debit…
KOSTAT reported that mobile ecommerce sales were up 125.8% in 2014 as a whole compared with 2013. In Q1 2015, according to KOSTAT, travel accounted for the largest share of mcommerce sales in South Korea of any product category, at 16.0%. That was down from…
