Food delivery site Foodpanda has been making headlines a lot recently. First with a $20 million financing round and then a rebrand in Vietnam . Today, Foodpanda has announced a merger with former rival Singapore Dine , though the terms of the deal haven’t been made public. The Rocket ...
We recently ran a guest post on the blogshop phenomenon in Singapore , and as Lucas highlighted in the article, payment is the most critical step which closes the entire shopping cycle. But at times it gets rather troublesome and tedious, since bank transfers were the only option avai...
Rocket Internet’s fashion e-store for Southeast Asia, Zalora , has just shipped its one millionth order. It’s a major milestone for the site, which operates in Singapore, Malaysia, Thailand, Indonesia, the Philippines, and Vietnam. The one millionth customer was Singaporean mum-to-be ...
Today Singapore-based Loan Garage , a startup that aims to help people get loans online, announced that it has launched its Indonesian platform KreditAja.com . It’s interesting to note that the expansion arrives only two months after Loan Garage made its full launch in Singapore. The ...
Swedish music streaming company Spotify recently stepped into Asia ; specifically Singapore, Hong Kong, and Malaysia. Spotify’s Sriram Krishnan, head of new markets and Asia-pacific at Spotify, explained to us that Asia was picked because piracy is high in this part of the world. Sad ...
Lucas Chua is a freelance consultant with extensive E-commerce experience in Singapore. When he was 16, he sold limited edition Nike sneakers on eBay. He has previously worked with several top blogshops for more than 2 years and interned at Zalora. Image credit: www.agneselle.com It i...
Spotify is now available in Singapore ahead of a launch event later today. Some basic fiddling with the music streaming service’s geo-specific URLs reveals that spotify.com/sg-en is now live. Interestingly, Singaporean music fans only get the choice of two accounts: free (with ads) or...
The AngelHack competition prides itself as the biggest hackathon in the world and will kick off this weekend in Los Angeles. And for friends in Asia, this might be your chance if you are looking to Silicon Valley for expansion, as AngelHack will be travelling to your cities, too. Ange...
