Posts Tagged: daily deals


Sina Weibo and Alibaba

After Alibaba Investment, Sina Weibo Puts Daily Deals in the Social Stream

It’s only been about five weeks since e-commerce titan Alibaba invested nearly $300 million to take a significant stake in Sina Weibo, Chi...

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  • June 4, 2013
  • at 10:39 am
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China's daily deals market 2013

China’s Daily Deals Market Hits $1.7 Billion in Q1, Not So Fragmented Any More

It’s time to check back in with China’s massive daily deals industry and see how all the Groupon-like sites are progressing in Q...

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  • May 27, 2013
  • at 1:00 pm
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meituan

Meituan Nearing $155 Million/Month in Transactions

After a lively explosion a couple years ago, most of China’s group buy sites have long since died out. But Meituan, which has been a t...

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  • May 3, 2013
  • at 8:30 am
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Kay

The Daily Deals Drama Continues in Vietnam: Kay Launches, Challenging Nhom Mua

If you’ve been following e-commerce and daily deals in Vietnam, you know that Nhom Mua fell hard late last year due to internal issues...

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  • April 18, 2013
  • at 10:00 pm
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Alibaba launches Juhuasuan in Hong Kong and Taiwan

In a Challenge to Groupon, Alibaba Takes Daily Deals to Hong Kong and Taiwan

China’s top e-commerce player, Alibaba, also runs the nation’s leading daily deals site. Run under the familiar Taobao brand name and UR...

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  • April 8, 2013
  • at 11:44 am
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stilomo

Stilomo Aims to be Indonesia’s Food Directory, Now Has 2,500 Users

Stilomo, one of the first graduates from the Jakarta Founders Institute, launched its mobile site for daily deals last month. The startup’...

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  • March 28, 2013
  • at 7:00 pm
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Baidu new daily deals site

Baidu Launches a Daily Deals Site (But Not for the First Time)

We tend to write about daily deals sites in China shutting down, not opening up. So this week’s quiet launch of a new deals portal run...

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  • February 28, 2013
  • at 12:51 pm
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In China’s Daily Deals Market, You Now Need $32+ Million Monthly Revenue to Be a Player

We’re following China’s daily deals market very closely, digging into quarterly market share data as soon as we can get our hands on it....

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  • February 8, 2013
  • at 10:12 pm
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Kay Officially Launches in Vietnam, Promising 24-Hour Delivery And A Whole New Way Of Doing Daily Deals

Kay Officially Launches in Vietnam, Promising 24-Hour Delivery And A Whole New Way Of Doing Daily Deals

You may remember that we covered a tiny little rumor that Tom Tran, former CEO of Nhom Mua, was launching a competing new daily deals site c...

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  • May 30, 2013
  • at 8:05 pm
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Meituan gay deals

This Chinese Deals Site is Offering a Free Gay Marriage Trip to Canada

Today and tomorrow is a sort of Chinese Valentine’s, so it’s an apt time for couples to be thinking of one another. That explains the ti...

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  • May 20, 2013
  • at 4:50 pm
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Shopby Unleashes Social Commerce On Vietnam

In Vietnam, we’ve got lots of homegrown daily deals and e-commerce sites, as well as a few foreign companies like Rocket Internet and ...

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  • April 23, 2013
  • at 11:24 am
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LocalRoam: Another Player in the Group Buying Field in the Philippines

LocalRoam is a Philippine-based group buying website. Pretty much like the more popular MetroDeal Manila but different in that LocalRoam is ...

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  • April 12, 2013
  • at 7:00 pm
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MetroDeal’s Path To Daily Deal Dominance in the Philippines [Startup Asia Preview]

Daily deals have been one of the biggest trends to hit the internet since social media. Pioneered and popularized by Groupon, the deals mode...

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  • April 3, 2013
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China’s Top Make-Up Deals Site on Track to $100 Million in Profit for 2013

If you asked 100 Chinese people where they buy online deals for discounted restaurant meals, then I suspect most would give wildly different...

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  • March 12, 2013
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TouchTen Brings Prizes to its Loyal Gamers with Gimmie Tie-Up

Indonesian game developer TouchTen has announced today that the startup has made an exclusive partnership with Singapore-based loyalty app G...

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  • February 15, 2013
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5 Big Things Vietnam’s Tech Scene Needs To Grow

What do startups in Vietnam need or lack? I asked this recently to a bunch of friends on the way back from new annual conference for the tec...

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  • January 18, 2013
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