Ecommerce
Ecommerce News: Shopee Reached $1.8 billion in Annualized GMV
The rate of digital adoption in Southeast Asia is unmatched. The Philippines sends more texts than any other country, and Jakarta is the world’s No. 1 city for tweets.

Before you wind down from your day, here are the ecommerce headlines you should know.
1. Shopee marks rapid growth in Southeast Asia
Southeast Asian pure-play m-Commerce operator Shopee says it has reached $1.8 billion in annualised GMV just a year after its launch.
App-based Shopee operates in Singapore, the Philippines, Malaysia, Indonesia, Thailand, Vietnam and and Taiwan.
The Garena-backed company says it has achieved a month-on-month growth of 43 %, with 25 million downloads of its mobile app to date and 65 million product listings.
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2. Retail ecommerce small but growing in Vietnam
However, despite all the optimism and the strong growth forecasted, retail ecommerce would still account for just 5% of total retail sales by 2020, if the target were to be reached, which puts Vietnam well behind Western countries.
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3. Recommended Reading: Southeast Asia’s ecommerce future
The rate of digital adoption in Southeast Asia is unmatched. The Philippines sends more texts than any other country, and Jakarta is the world’s No. 1 city for tweets. There are more than 250 million smartphone users in the region.
Read the rest of the story here.
Ecommerce
How COVID-19 has changed online shopping forever
Following the pandemic, more than half of the survey’s respondents now shop online more frequently and rely on the internet more for news, health-related information and digital entertainment.
Ecommerce
Thailand’s internet economy to hit US$53 billion in 2025
New users in Southeast Asia are coming online at a blistering pace, adding 40M new Internet users this year alone compared to 100M between 2015 and 2019 and 70% of the region’s population is now online.

Ecommerce
The Rapid Growth of Online Scam in South East Asia
Due to the coronavirus pandemic, more people are required to remain at home, spending more time on the internet and increasing the levels of exposure to online scams and fraud.

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