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| May 27, 2026 | Physis Capital announces final close of maiden Rs 400 crore fund | Early stage venture capital firm Physis Capital has announced the final close of its maiden Rs 400 crore fund, backed by institutional investors and family offices including SUD Life, Lotus Holdings, Ajmera Realty, Narayana Nethralaya, and ... |
| May 19, 2026 | Amazon's Singapore retreat: Why its US playbook failed in Southeast Asia | Listen
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SINGAPORE: Amazon ended local fulfilment in Singapore because it could not leverage its strengths against rivals in Southeast Asia’s highly competitive... |
| Mar 3, 2026 | TikTok Shop narrows the gap with Shopee in Southeast Asia’s e-commerce market | Just over a year ago, conversations about Southeast Asia’s e-commerce sector centered on a duopoly: Shopee at the top, Lazada behind it, and TikTok Shop emerging as a fast-growing but smaller challenger.
That hierarchy is now under pressure... |
| Sep 16, 2025 | Lazada's 9.9 Mega Brands Sale 2025 Delivers Record Growth with LazMall Driving Brand-Led Momentum Across Southeast Asia | Sales of top 100 Southeast Asian sellers grew by over 49 times compared to last 9.9
LazMall saw double-digit YoY growth of nearly 30% in average order value (AOV) as consumers go for more high quality brand products
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| Aug 27, 2025 | IN FOCUS: Why Southeast Asia’s service providers remain stuck at home, and how ASEAN can help | Listen
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JAKARTA/KUALA LUMPUR: In a cramped office on the second floor of a weathered building in Bandung, Indonesia, a dozen animators sit shoulder-to-shoulde... |
| Feb 7, 2025 | Deep Dive Podcast: DeepSeek - What difference will cheaper AI make? | Listen
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An AI model developed by a little-known Chinese hedge fund that reportedly rivals OpenAI's ChatGPT at a significantly lower cost has triggered a deep “... |
| Jan 9, 2025 | Optimize your operations: 3 tips for D2C growth | EcommercePaid Content Partnerships
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Shopee has become synonymous with online shopping in Southeast Asia. The digital marketplace holds a 4... |
| Jan 8, 2025 | Live commerce is Southeast Asia’s next chapter, and TikTok Shop is leading the way | Spread across the tapestry of globalization, some trade routes, established centuries ago, continue to thrive, adapting to modern contexts while retaining their vitality. Southeast Asia exemplifies this resilience—a region that remains a bu... |
| Sep 19, 2024 | Temu’s price game not enough for Southeast Asia | Premium Content
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Jofie Yordan · 11h ago · 6 min readTemu’s price game not enough for Southeast Asia
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| Sep 18, 2024 | From layoffs to profit: Is Lazada finally ready for an IPO? | Premium Content
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Melissa Goh · 1d ago · 7 min readFrom layoffs to profit: Is Lazada finally ready fo... |
| Aug 6, 2024 | Temu's Cautious Dance in Southeast Asia: A Market Analysis | Temu, the rising star in the e-commerce universe, has set its sights on Southeast Asia. The company officially launched in Thailand on July 29, 2024, marking its third entry into the region after Malaysia and the Philippines. With a global ... |
| Aug 6, 2024 | Temu expands into Thailand, takes cautious approach to Southeast Asia | Temu officially launched in Thailand on July 29, entering its third Southeast Asian market a year after expanding into Malaysia and the Philippines. Temu’s global growth has been phenomenal. Its GMV reached USD 20 billion in the first half ... |
| Jul 19, 2024 | TikTok Shop’s GMV soared in 2023, putting Shopee and Lazada on edge | Shopee now has undeniable proof that TikTok’s e-commerce push in Southeast Asia is a force to reckon with, thanks to eye-opening data from research firm Momentum Works.
In a report released this month, Momentum Works found that TikTok Shop’... |
| Jun 20, 2024 | TikTok Shop narrows gap with Shopee, but the honeymoon could be over | Premium Content
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Jofie Yordan · 3h ago · 7 min readTikTok Shop narrows gap with Shopee, but the hone... |
| May 22, 2024 | Ex-Foodpanda CEO speaks out after abrupt exit from firm | Premium Content
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Melissa Goh · 3h ago · 8 min readEx-Foodpanda CEO speaks out after abrupt exit from... |
| May 7, 2024 | Quhuo Advances Global Strategy, Expanding On-Demand Delivery Services to International Markets | BEIJING, May 7, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- In recent years, for various reasons, many Chinese concept stocks have been consistently undervalued in overseas capital markets. However, some Chinese e-commerce companies have gone against the current ... |
| May 7, 2024 | Quhuo Advances Global Strategy, Expanding On-Demand Delivery Services to International Markets | BEIJING, May 7, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- In recent years, for various reasons, many Chinese concept stocks have been consistently undervalued in overseas capital markets. However, some Chinese e-commerce companies have gone against the current ... |
| Apr 17, 2024 | Conversational commerce platform “AnyChat” collaborates with Southeast Asia’s largest e-commerce malls “ Lazada” and “Shopee” | AnyMind Group Co., Ltd.
Conversational commerce platform “AnyChat” collaborates with Southeast Asia’s largest e-commerce malls “Lazada” and “Shopee”
Contributing to the growth of e-commerce businesses by supporting customer satisfaction and... |
| Apr 17, 2024 | Conversational commerce platform “AnyChat” collaborates with Southeast Asia’s largest e-commerce malls “ Lazada” and “Shopee” | |
| Feb 7, 2024 | Why Blibli’s shares are outperforming GoTo, Bukalapak stocks | Premium Content
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Jofie Yordan · 9 Feb 2024 · 5 min readWhy Blibli’s shares are outperforming GoTo, B... |
| Jan 25, 2024 | Grab captured 55% of SEA’s food delivery market in 2023: report | NewsStartupsTransportation
Samreen Ahmad · 29 Jan 2024 · 1 min readGrab captured 55% of SEA’s food delivery market in 2023: report
Grab led the food delivery market in Southeast Asia in 2023, accounting for nearly 55% of the food delivery g... |
| Jan 24, 2024 | Southeast Asian e-commerce: TikTok disrupts the market, Shopee and Lazada navigate defensive dilemmas | The size of the population determines the market ceiling—this has been the captivating code of China’s economic story for the past thirty years and a crucial factor driving Chinese companies to “strike gold” in Southeast Asia.
In the last f... |
| Jan 17, 2024 | Brewing success abroad: Chinese tea brands set sights on Southeast Asia | Franchise tea chains in bustling Southeast Asia often juggle two tasks: catering to local customers and accommodating successive waves of franchise research teams from China. Since last year, an increasing number of tea brands and suppliers... |
| Dec 13, 2023 | TikTok Shop gets winning hand in Indonesia via Tokopedia mega deal | Premium Content
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Miguel Cordon · 13 Dec 2023 · 5 min readTikTok Shop gets winning hand in Indonesia ... |
| Dec 11, 2023 | TikTok invests USD 1.5 billion in GoTo’s Tokopedia to restart e-commerce business in Indonesia | So, it’s official. Following last week’s report of TikTok reaching a preliminary agreement with GoTo Group to collaboratively launch an online shopping service in Indonesia, both entities have confirmed this partnership in a statement joint... |
| Dec 7, 2023 | All you need to know about TikTok’s potential partnership with Tokopedia in Indonesia | ByteDance’s TikTok has reportedly agreed to invest in a unit of GoTo Group as part of a broader collaboration to launch an online shopping service in Indonesia, according to Bloomberg.
TikTok, a globally renowned short video platform, is sa... |
| Dec 7, 2023 | GoTo confirms discussions with TikTok for ecommerce partnership | EcommerceNews
Lokesh Choudhary · 8 Dec 2023 · 1 min readGoTo confirms discussions with TikTok for ecommerce partnership
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Indonesian super app GoTo Group has confirmed that it is in discussions with ByteDance-owned Ti... |
| Dec 1, 2023 | Is the potential TikTok Shop-Tokopedia deal just a strategic stopgap? | Premium Content
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Jofie Yordan · 7 Dec 2023 · 6 min readIs the potential TikTok Shop-Tokopedia deal j... |
| Nov 23, 2023 | Delivery Hero-owned Baemin to exit Vietnam in December | Consumer TechNews
Miguel Cordon · 24 Nov 2023 · 2 min readDelivery Hero-owned Baemin to exit Vietnam in December
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Baemin, the South Korean food delivery platform owned by Delivery Hero, will officially exit Vietnam on De... |
| Oct 3, 2023 | TikTok Shop officially closes in Indonesia tomorrow | EcommerceNews
Jofie Yordan · 3 Oct 2023 · 2 min readTikTok Shop officially closes in Indonesia tomorrow
TikTok Shop offline activity in Jakarta / Photo credit: TikTok
TikTok Shop will “no longer facilitate ecommerce transactions” in Indones... |
| Sep 25, 2023 | Indonesia’s Jokowi bans direct transactions on social media | EcommerceNews
Jofie Yordan · 25 Sep 2023 · 2 min readIndonesia’s Jokowi bans direct transactions on social media
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President Joko “Jokowi” Widodo has decided to ban direct transactions on social media platforms in I... |
| Sep 21, 2023 | Uncertain future: TikTok Shop faces first regulatory headwinds in Indonesia | Premium Content
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Jofie Yordan · 22 Sep 2023 · 6 min readUncertain future: TikTok Shop faces first re... |
| Sep 13, 2023 | Line Man Wongnai looks beyond food delivery in quest to become the GoTo of Thailand | Premium Content
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Simon Huang · 14 Sep 2023 · 7 min readLine Man Wongnai looks beyond food delivery i... |
| Aug 19, 2023 | TikTok Shop to capture 13.2% of SEA ecommerce market share: report | EcommerceNews
Jofie Yordan · 21 Aug 2023 · 2 min readTikTok Shop to capture 13.2% of SEA ecommerce market share: report
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TikTok Shop is projected to capture a 13.2% share of th... |
| Aug 1, 2023 | Takeaways from Zomato hitting profitability | Community Content
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Jianggan Li · 1d ago · 3 min readTakeaways from Zomato hittin... |
| Jul 27, 2023 | TikTok poses serious threat to Shopee, Lazada in ASEAN: Morgan Stanley | EcommerceNews
Jofie Yordan · 4 Aug 2023 · 2 min readTikTok poses serious threat to Shopee, Lazada in ASEAN: Morgan Stanley
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TikTok’s monthly active users (MAUs) across Southeast Asian markets have surpassed Shopee’... |
| Jul 19, 2023 | Alibaba injects $845m into Lazada as competition intensifies | EcommerceNews
Miguel Cordon · 19 Jul 2023 · 1 min readAlibaba injects $845m into Lazada as competition intensifies
Alibaba has pumped another US$845.44 million into Lazada in the latest capital injection, according to a filing seen by Tec... |
| May 25, 2023 | Podcast: Rounding up SEA tech news with Momentum Works | Community Content
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Peter Cowan · 26 May 2023 · 1 min readPodcast: Rounding up SEA tech news ... |
| Jan 17, 2023 | Southeast Asian Food Delivery Players, Grab, GoTo Face Slump as Spending Growth Slows to Four-Year Low | John Lopez, Tech Times 17 January 2023, 12:01 pm
According to a Bloomberg report, regional internet giants Grab Holdings Ltd. and GoTo Group faced difficulties in 2022 as spending on food delivery in Southeast Asia grew at its slowest rate ... |
| Dec 16, 2021 | Digital Southeast Asia compared to Latin America Report | Following up on our overview of Southeast Asia tech investment in H1 2021, we teamed up with Momentum Works to take a look at how Southeast Asian digital ecosystem compares to other emerging regions globally, starting with Latin America cou... |
| Alibaba bets on overseas e-commerce unit amid sluggish growth in China | One bright spot in Alibaba’s recent December quarter earnings was its international e-commerce business unit which saw revenue increase 44% from a year ago.
Alibaba International Digital Commerce Group includes platforms like AliExpress, La... |
| Sea pivoted to growth over profits as it faced rising competition from TikTok, Lazada, analysts say | Sea’s chairman and group CEO Forrest Li told investors on Tuesday that the firm will “reaccelerate investments in growth,” particularly in e-commerce.
Just months ago, Sea overhauled its business to focus on profitability amid high inflatio... |