News and content tech giant Toutiao enters ecommerce
Toutiao is an undisputed giant in the content and news aggregator market in China. We have also written about how its video app “Tik-Tok”...
First-mover advantage or disadvantage: Uber and Lyft’s IPO Race.
Losses, lawsuits and Lyft’s upcoming IPO - there couldn’t be a more challenging timing for Uber to announce the possibility of going public. The valuation: an unexpected $120 billion - making Uber’s IPO the largest since the Alibaba Group in 2014. Uber’s and Lyft’s IPOs will set a benchmark within the ride-hailing industry in terms of pricing as well as the targeted stock markets.
Can Tencent match Ant Financial after $175 million investment in Philippine...
The main product of Mynt is e-wallet GCash
Voyager was founded in 2013, and owns e-wallet PayMaya, remittance service provider Smart Padala, lending platform Lendr,...
Chinese fintech lenders flock to the Philippines
We wrote towards the end of last year that Chinese consumer loan apps were flocking to Indonesia.
In July, Indonesia’s financial services regulator OJK...
Aibiying: A globally local Airbnb?
People hated Airbnb's Chinese name when it was adopted
Many Western companies have found China to be a difficult market to crack, and home-sharing giant...
Changing ecommerce in the Middle East: Mumzworld’s $20 million B-round Financing
Once dominated by one company
Before 2016, the entire ecommerce industry in the Middle East was ... quiet, barely noticed by ecommerce giants like Alibaba.
Souq.com,...
Go-Jek, Bukalapak, Shopee: Growth Hack tricks by Giant Indonesian Startups
The advantage of growth hack is not only to keep your product sustainable but to attract consumers by decreasing cost of user acquisition and increasing consumer retention - Low Budget with High Impact. Some startups in Indonesia like the unicorns Gojek, Bukalapak, and Shopee practise growth hack method as well to grow their business.
