
Lazada, Shopee and TikTok Cut Fees to Save Thai SMEs 1.93B Baht
The six-month rollback to January levels excludes electronics and covers 1.2 million registered small businesses.
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The six-month rollback to January levels excludes electronics and covers 1.2 million registered small businesses.

Only 2 per cent of consumers pay direct AI subscriptions across the region, pushing e-commerce merchants and digital platforms to monetize through search and conversions.

The logistics specialist aims to raise non-affiliated business to 40 percent of total revenue by 2030 through cross-border K-beauty fulfillment.

Magazine Luiza will sell its first-party catalog on Shopee while integrating Shopee products into its own digital ecosystem.

Heavier investments in user subsidies, live-commerce infrastructure, and logistics fulfillment are eroding consolidated group margins.

The service enters its fifth Southeast Asian market by embedding food ordering directly into the main e-commerce app alongside ShopeePay.

Platforms including Tokopedia, Shopee, Lazada and Blibli must collect income taxes from online merchants a month earlier than scheduled following a leadership change at the finance ministry.

Phishing incidents doubled to 505 cases last month despite a 35 per cent drop in overall fraud losses across Taiwan.

ByteDance’s social shopping arm expanded U.S. Transaction volume by 68 per cent in 2025, while Southeast Asian content commerce targets $77.9 billion by 2026.

Sea Group’s e-commerce platform relies on dynamic carrier routing and distributed inventory to manage parcel volumes ahead of regional shopping campaigns.

Indonesia recorded a 62 per cent rise in user session length while Singapore app installs climbed 67 per cent in the first half of 2026.

Singapore-based Sea Limited lifted first-half revenue 47 percent to $14.9 billion, while logistics costs and credit provisions capped net profit growth at 9 percent.

Regular marketplace sellers pay commissions between 1 and 2 per cent while Shopee Mall brand rates reach 6 per cent.

Rapid expansion across Southeast Asia and Western markets puts ByteDance’s e-commerce arm in direct competition with Shopee, Lazada, and Temu.

Sea Limited, a Singaporean company, experienced robust sales and profit growth during the second quarter of this year. The growth was fuelled by a strong performance across the company’s three main divisions. The company, which is listed in the US, reported a…

Shopee, Singapore’s leading online retail platform, has recently been penalized VND200 million (US$7,700) by the Vietnam Competition Commission (VCC) due to deceptive advertising practices linked to a free shipping campaign initiated in August 2025. Confusing…
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