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 ...

In 2018-19 when O2O retail started picking up as a buzz word among marketers as well as retailers, the world seemed utopian. But who knew that COVID-19 could play such a vital role in the tectonic ...

In September 2012, Pony Ma announced in Beijing that Tencent, with its 200 million WeChat users combined with its ability to provide e-commerce and payment services, would launch a foray into the O2O ...

Previously in this series, we discussed how Alibaba (BABA) seeks to give Tencent (TCEHY) some stiff competition in the food-delivery market. This market allows these companies to leverage the growing ...

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 ...

Vijay Shekhar Sharma, founder of Indian payment and mobile commerce firm Paytm, is on a mission to be the first profitable company in the e-commerce segment. For this, he has charted out a ...

Paytm Mall said on Monday that with its unique O2O (offline to online) model, it has doubled its revenue in FY19 compared to the last financial year. The company said that it has reduced its cost by ...

A visitor gets a checkup at Wuzhen Internet Hospital in Tongxiang, Zhejiang province, in November 2018. [Photo/Xinhua] Medical treatment in China will increasingly evolve from the current model of ...