#E-Commerce

Indonesia’s messenger app market is already highly saturated, Oy’s CEO, undeterred, is up for something “really hard”.

From the English word “Store”, Ztore is a popular name for small grocery stores in Cantonese.

J&T is going a route that’s heavy on physical retail stores, Exaq, which is just starting out, has a more radical vision.

The O2O firm is looking at making Go-Deals the biggest discounts platform in the country in the next 6 months.

E-commerce companies seem to be changing their preference from third-party payment options to those developed inhouse.

Shoppers on Tokopedia will have more options to buy goods that they previously couldn’t afford to pay for upfront.

On the surface, this region seems predestined for an app similar to the latest Chinese e-commerce disruptor. But once you look deeper, challenges outweigh the potential — for now.

Hawking wares on social networks like Facebook and Instagram isn’t going away.