From cold war to hot war: Go-Jek competes with Grab in Singapore’s fintech market
As Go-Jek launches the beta version of its app in Singapore, the e-payment turf war is heating up.
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Old retailers in Singapore will perish
Changing consumer habits are creating empty shopping malls across Singapore. With the arrival of more online market giants, old retailers must choose to modernise or face extinction.
Battle of the e-commerce giants: Amazon comes to ASEAN
Retailing giant Amazon will arrive in southeast Asia in 2017 as it opens a Singapore operation. However, existing e-commerce firms are in the process of pulling out of the region in the face of huge losses, poor infrastructure and pervasive logistics challenges.
Time to switch off? How social media is burning out Southeast Asia
Facebook0TwitterReddit0LinkedinemailSoutheast Asians use Facebook more than any other social media platform, connecting people and information in a way the historically-restricted region has never dealt with…
Mobile commerce on the rise
Facebook0TwitterReddit0LinkedinemailBy Jude How Asian consumers shop is changing dramatically. It used to be a linear process – from awareness through consideration to purchase. Now, in…