China’s internet landscape continues to rapidly grow and innovate in 2021, pushing internet companies to evolve and adapt, as the nation enters a new phase of development, according to the China Inter…
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Youku collaborates with BBC Studios
Audiences are now able to watch more than 430 hours of dramas from BBC Studios on Youku, Alibaba Group’s flagship video-streaming platform.…
Online transaction in Korea hits new records in 2019
Online shopping hit record levels in November, monthly sales broke 12 trillion won (US$10.4 billion) for the first time ever, as shoppers moved away from real-world stores and toward internet platform…
Naver partners with Softbank
Naver has agreed to create a joint venture with Softbank to run both the chat app Line and internet portal Yahoo Japan.…
Kakao has a significant increase in earnings
Korean internet giant Kakao announced a significant increase in its third-quarter earnings, backed by the growth of its advertisement platform on popular messenger app KakaoTalk.…
How is 5G transforming the retail industry?
China’s 5G rollout is becoming one of the biggest tech stories of the year.…
Sephora’s APAC shoppers found victims of data breach
France’s Sephora has flagged a large-scale data breach, revealing that the personal information and passwords of the cosmetic retailer’s Asia Pacific customers have been exposed to an “unauthorised th…
Kobe’s Evangeline Leong’s opinion on the removal of “likes” on Instagram
How will the removal of ‘likes’ affect our Asian community? What are some of the repercussions?…
eBay Korea leads in Korean e-commerce market
The volume of transactions on eBay Korea was estimated at 8.81 trillion won ($7.47 billion) in the first six months of 2019, keeping it at the top in the blooming but heavily competitive e-commerce ma…
Shinsegae to launch integrated online shopping firm SSG.COM in March
Shinsegae Group will launch a brand new entity that specializes in e-commerce in an effort to become Korea’s answer to Amazon.…