Shared bicycle manufacturers are dying, and this is not a bad...
Barely a few months ago, the bosses of China’s bicycle supply chain were beaming with joy.
Their factories were all running full capacity while new...
Clash of the titans in Thailand’s ecommerce scene
Last year, Thailand witnessed the entry and subsequent overhype of 11street – a company owned and invested by South Korean telecommunications giant SK Telecom....
Incentives and cashback: what works and what doesn’t
Someone in Singapore sent us a copy of a promotional letter she had received:
That is a lot of hassle to get (maximum) $30...
The future of struggling service marketplaces
Good Start, Let’s Uberize Everything!
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It was just merely two years ago when service marketplaces were all the talk in town (I mean,...
The Razer question: what can you do with 10 million dollars?
Razer recently published an e-payment proposal summary, which includes committing S$10M to deploy a common cashless payment solution in Singapore, maybe Razer Pay, in...
Real implications of China’s ICO ban?
Ether’s price dropped sharply today, immediately after the Chinese Central Government announced they were banning Initial Coin Offerings(ICOs).
The drop wiped out millions of dollars...
“But, we signed an NDA”
A team from a developed country came to us the other day, with a business plan to build smart shared bicycles, similar to the...
Alipay is NOT launching a digital wallet in Singapore soon
Many friends living in Singapore noticed this news today on both The Straits Times and Lianhe Zaobao:
http://www.straitstimes.com/singapore/alipay-inks-deal-to-expand-cashless-payment-acceptance-points-in-singapore
http://www.zaobao.com.sg/sme/news/story20170823-789329
According to the reporting (especially that on...
Comfort DelGro’s potential tie-up with Uber is not enough to revive...
Comfort DelGro, Singapore’s largest taxi operator with a fleet of 16000 cars, announced on Tuesday that it is in talks with Uber about a...
What is best ecommerce marketing channel in rural developing world?
I was having lunch with some friends in Dubai the other day, and one of the friends ran an e-commerce platform across a few...
