Despite its exceptional growth and the role it has played in transforming the retail landscape, ecommerce only accounts for about 5 percent of all retail sales. The main reason the majority of ...

The term “Unicorn” has become one of the top tech buzzwords of the year. It refers to a short list of companies who have a valuation of over a billion dollars. The list actually contains nearly 50 ...

According to HSBC, the Chinese O2O (online to offline) market is more than $150 billion in size with just 4% internet penetration. The online portion of this market surged 80% year on year to $47 ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. China’s e-commerce industry is no longer just about selling goods on the internet. As internet penetration has ...

Online to offline (“O2O”) commerce is all the buzz right now. Last year, when Alibaba invested over $3 billion in the technology, the media took note and journalists around the world began discussing ...

58.com is the clear leader in the home services O2O sector, with a huge user base of more than 300m monthly active users. And the O2O site further enhanced this dominant position in April 2015, by ...