Category: E-Tailing

Retail Asia17/05/2017
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Chinese mobile wallet Alipay has arrived in Malaysia, marking the latest international push for Ant Financial Services Group, Alibaba Group’s payment affiliate and owner of Alipay. According to Alibaba, six Malaysian banks have received regulatory approval from the Malaysian Central Bank to process Alipay settlements. Alipay is also scheduled as a payment option across the […]

Retail Asia16/05/2017
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Convenience store chain 7-Eleven Malaysia is now offering Lazada Malaysia offline payment services at its stores nationwide via its partnership with MOLPay. As the leading convenience store in the country, 7-Eleven is continuously making its way up by enhancing customers’ shopping experience and has added Lazada offline payment to its services. “It is clear that our main […]

Retail Asia11/05/2017
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Storefront is the world’s largest marketplace for brands  to  connect with retail spaces and is being called “the Airbnb of Pop-Up Space”. Over 8,000 brands, including L’Oréal, Maje, Chloé, OnTheList, Miss Runner, Butterboom, Thierry Mugler and Giorgio Armani, have opened temporary retail stores using the Storefront platform, which offers expanded access to space in leading […]

Retail Asia11/05/2017
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E-commerce giant JD.com said on Monday first-quarter revenues lifted 41% for fiscal 2017, as the second-biggest online retailer in China recorded its first profit as a publicly listed company. JD.com reported net income of 239 million yuan ($35 million) for the three months ended March — its first time in the black since listing in 2014. Sales […]

Retail Asia09/05/2017
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The new app will work along the same lines as Uber and Grab, but with better understanding of local travel habits, developers said. A locally developed ride-hailing app was unveiled on Friday in Vietnam, giving travelers yet another option in the rapidly expanding market. APPP, developed by Vietnam’s University of Transport Technology with funding from […]

Retail Asia08/05/2017
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British fashion retailer Topshop has officially launched an Australian-dedicated online store, meaning local shoppers can bypass the generic Topshop international site. The new Topshop Australia platform allows Australians to browse and shop prices in Australian dollars and pass for free shipping when the total purchase is over AU$75. When shopping via the international store, prices […]

Retail Asia08/05/2017
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Luxury goods group LVMH will reportedly launch its own multi-brand e-commerce site in March and offer all 70 of its brands on one site, according to the Financial Times. The site will be part of Le Bon Marché, the Parisian department store acquired by LVMH in 1984, and also sell other brands from outside the […]

Retail Asia08/05/2017
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Lazada Singapore has unveiled three new shops on its online marketplace, in a bid to bolster its e-tail offering and win consumers during its ‘birthday sale’. Lazada has launched ‘shop-in-shops’ for international heavyweights Coca-Cola, Nestle and Redmart, each of which allows the brands to keep their identity across online and offline channels, while giving shoppers […]

Retail Asia28/04/2017
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MobAir is taking eMarketer’s prediction that total mobile ad spend in China will climb 58% in 2017 seriously. The mobile growth platform for brands, which counts AliExpress, Trivago, and Baidu as clients, is investing in Shanghai with a new office. The office will allow the startup to offer personalized services to local partners and broaden […]

Retail Asia28/04/2017
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Mobile shopping in Hong Kong and has now become a vital part of local consumers’ online purchasing habits, with more than two in every five of them having made purchases via their mobile device in the last three months, according to the latest Mastercard Online Shopping Survey. The survey was carried out across fourteen markets […]

Retail Asia27/04/2017
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Google on April 26 announces the winners of the Google Play Indonesia Games Contest in Jakarta. Hundreds of entries from local Indonesian developers were submitted to this competition which celebrates the spirit and great potential of local game developers. The 15 finalists were invited to showcase their submissions at this offline gaming expo for industry […]

Retail Asia26/04/2017
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Nearly 54 percent of online shoppers visited trading websites on mobile phones, higher than those accessing by desktop. The data was created from a survey of more than 27,000 client websites of Bizweb, an online commercial solutions platform. The results showed that 53.8 per cent of online shoppers visited trading websites on mobile phones, higher […]


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