Will Vietnam continue to lead ecommerce growth in Southeast Asia?
Last Friday (28 Mar 2025), over 200 ecommerce ecosystem players gathered in Ho Chi Minh City for the Global Ecommerce & Digital Trade Summit,...
A brief history of quick commerce in China
How quick commerce becomes a trillion-yuan market in China
In February this year, JD.com, a leading ecommerce platform in China, entered the food delivery...
On the ground in Ho Chi Minh City: retail, ecommerce and...
Yesterday I just came back from a month-long business trip, covering 2 expos, 3 summits, 3 Momentum Works immersions, 6 flights and 7 cities....
Douyin opens quick commerce to influencers
Douyin (the Chinese version of TikTok) has expanded its Xiaoshida（“小时达”）Instant Delivery Service to all e-commerce influencers, allowing them to sell products with one-hour local...
Shopee brings back Ronaldo, with a twist
Do you still remember Shopee’s Cristiano Ronaldo ad in 2019, in which the famous Portuguese footballer danced to the ecommerce platform’s earworm tune?
That ad...
[Offline event] Ho Chi Minh City Ecommerce Innovation Summit: AI, cross-border,...
Join us on 28 March for the Ho Chi Minh City Ecommerce Innovation Summit – right at the heart of Southeast Asia’s fastest-growing economy...
My thoughts on “1b Indian consumers have no spending power”
I just read, with great pleasure, the newly released Blume Ventures report on India. The report has been widely discussed amongst friends of Momentum...
Discover Vietnam’s Ecommerce & Retail Boom with MW Vietnam Immersion Cohort...
Vietnam is not just Southeast Asia’s fastest-growing economy (7.4%) but also its fastest-growing ecommerce market (53.8%). Ho Chi Minh City, driving 23% of the...
“Big company disease is inevitable, but it can be delayed”: conversation...
This interview was extracted from an interview with Kaifei during the Impulso Podcast E110 “From China to the world: Temu’s low price strategy decoded”.
There...
How China’s Biggest MCN Is Transforming Live Commerce with DeepSeek
Two days ago, Befriends MCN 交个朋友 (HKEX: 1457), a leading Chinese live commerce platform, announced it has embedded DeepSeek’s advanced language model into its...
