M-commerce

Here’s what that means for ecommerce businesses.

How much disposable income do Thai people have and are willing to spend online?

Indeed, there are lucrative opportunities for businesses given consumers’ shopping behavior during the season.

Hundreds of flash deals sites and apps have sprung up over the years. If you’re operating in this crowded space, how do you keep up? For Singapore’s LOCO, the key is to evolve.

Goodservice, a Delhi-based concierge app, raised US$1.6 million in seed funding from Sequoia Capital, the company announced today. Founded in 2014, Goodservice offers on-demand services to users through chat. The

JiffStore, a Bangalore-based hyperlocal ecommerce business that enables online order and delivery of groceries from stores in the user’s vicinity, has secured its second round of funding from Unitus Seed

Last week WeChat, the popular Chinese messaging app, launched a feature letting users based in China gift money to friends and family. The feature went viral in China, and yesterday

Following its entry into Myanmar last October, Rocket Internet’s real estate venture has now quietly moved into Pakistan and the Philippines. Lamudi is a business-to-consumer and consumer-to-consumer platform for real estate listings.

Last July, market research firm TNS revealed that 53 percent of respondents in Metro Manila already own a smartphone. For 2014, research firm IDC predicts smartphone adoption will see a 22 percent year-on-year

Of the millions of Southeast Asian consumers visiting Rocket Internet’s price comparison site PricePanda, one million of them were already redirected to its partner shops in the region since it launched