e-commerce
October 8th, 2019 | by
Alfred Siew Amazon won't find the Singapore market an easy one to crack, because rivals Lazada and Shopee have been busy signing up merchants over the...
October 4th, 2019 | by
Alfred Siew With the Southeast Asia Internet economy now valued at a cool US$100 billion, any new startup here seeking to bag fresh funds will find new impetus. What a report from Google, Temasek and Bain & Company yesterday has done is...
April 22nd, 2019 | by
Grace Chng Real-time fraud detection is becoming important to merchants and financial institutions, as they seek to tap on the explosive growth of e-commerce in...
April 17th, 2019 | by
Grace Chng Singapore F&B outlets have an online service that promises to let them more easily order, invoice and pay for fresh foods, drinks and other food...
February 8th, 2019 | by
Alfred Siew SingPost's blase attitude towards the numerous complaints over the years about its subpar service seems to have finally caught up with...
November 9th, 2018 | by
Grace Chng When Lazada kicks off its holiday season sales on November 11, bargain hunters can expect 50 milllion deals from electronics to nutritional products....
August 7th, 2018 | by
Alfred Siew Launched today by EZ-Link, You Technologies and Mastercard, the YouTrip mobile wallet lets users pay in more than 150 currencies without the usual...
April 17th, 2018 | by
Grace Chng Carrefour was not sure whether Taiwanese consumers would take to online shopping for supermarket goods, especially...
February 19th, 2018 | by
Alfred Siew As part of Budget 2018, GST could be applied to a wide variety of software and services, such as mobile app...
December 6th, 2017 | by
Alfred Siew If Amazon wants to ask people to pay for a subscription, even if it's a cheap S$2.99 a month for now, it should have a proper store in...
November 13th, 2017 | by
Alfred Siew In Singapore, the Singles' Day deals mean that the crazy season has already started early for many shoppers this year. And it's not even Black Friday...
July 28th, 2017 | by
Alfred Siew In many ways, the hype around the launch is hard to live up to, but its lasting impact in the months and years ahead will show that this is a landmark when it comes to...
July 10th, 2017 | by
Alfred Siew Silicon valley payment startup, Stripe, said today that it had inked a deal with the companies behind the Chinese payment services to connect up merchants on its online...
May 18th, 2016 | by
Alfred Siew With updates to its suite of services, customers can sell things over multiple channels online, account for various types of revenues and make sure the books fall in line with new tax...
January 30th, 2016 | by
Alfred Siew The service lets users pay for items more easily, without having to fill in the same details so...
December 1st, 2015 | by
Alfred Siew With steeply discounted items on American sites, you can actually buy something online, ship it over and still pay...
November 25th, 2015 | by
Alfred Siew If you are thinking of selling your iPhone, there's now a new online marketplace that will help assess your gadget and wipe it clean of your personal data before letting it go to a stranger...
June 24th, 2015 | by
Alfred Siew A hassle-free and effortless experience is helping people overcome the need to "touch and feel" a product in a mall, says...
June 17th, 2015 | by
Alfred Siew The results reflect the growing popularity of e-commerce sites in a region with fast-increasing income levels and technology...
November 29th, 2014 | by
Alfred Siew If local players don't buck up, each close of the year will see more spending headed to overseas, online shops, instead of Singapore retailers and bazaars like...
