TikTok owner ByteDance has been losing momentum in 2024, with slower revenue growth and narrower profit margins for the first three quarters compared with last year, according to local media. Revenue growth “significantly” slowed for the first nine months of the year, while profit margins slimmed for the first time since 2022, Chinese tech media … Read more
Temu’s website in Vietnam, however, showed that the company’s foray into one of the fastest-growing economies in the region was apparently rushed. It currently supports only English as well as transactions made via credit card and Google Pay, while excluding leading Vietnamese mobile payment service Momo. In affluent Brunei, Temu is available in both English … Read more
ByteDance’s Douyin, the domestic sibling of TikTok, has emerged as a rising contender in the Chinese e-commerce market once dominated by Alibaba Group Holding and JD.com, despite slowing growth. The Beijing-based short-video platform, which has been aggressively expanding into the online shopping business, increased gross merchandise volume (GMV) by 46 per cent year on year … Read more
Chinese budget e-commerce platform Pinduoduo, run by Temu owner PDD Holdings, is offering partial refunds of service fees to merchants, after company executives promised to waive 10 billion yuan (US$1.4 billion) in charges. The main point of contention arose over so-called technical service fees, which are essentially sales commissions charged by Pinduoduo for merchants to … Read more
Lazada, the Southeast Asian online shopping platform of Alibaba Group Holding, has achieved a monthly profit for the first time, according to an internal announcement. In an announcement during the firm’s town hall meeting on Tuesday, Singapore-based Lazada was said to have recorded positive earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortisation (Ebitda) – an alternate … Read more
“We’re excited to collaborate with Amazon to offer a seamless and fun shopping experience,” TikTok wrote in a post on Thursday, which did not provide details on how many international markets are covered by this collaboration. TikTok users will see Amazon product recommendations on the app’s “For You” feed, according to the post. In the … Read more
Temu’s efforts to please consumers were borrowed from its Chinese sister platform Pinduoduo, known for cut-to-the-bone deals and easy-to-refund options. That policy has helped Temu grow overseas. Its gross merchandise value surged to about US$20 billion in the first half of this year, surpassing overall sales of US$18 billion in 2023, according to a report … Read more
Eligible merchants on Taobao and Tmall can enroll in Alibaba’s new pan-clothing global free shipping plan, so they can sell their products directly to consumers in several markets outside the mainland, the Hangzhou-based company said in a statement in response to the South China Morning Post’s inquiry. Alibaba owns the Post. Taobao and Tmall merchants … Read more
International online budget-shopping platform Temu, owned by Chinese e-commerce giant PDD Holdings, saw its gross merchandise value (GMV) surge to about US$20 billion in the first half of this year, according to a Chinese media report, surpassing its overall sales of US$18 billion in 2023. Apart from showing strong growth from overseas markets, Temu reached … Read more
TikTok, the global hit short video platform owned by ByteDance, is set to jump into Southeast Asia’s local services sector, initially enabling users in Indonesia and Thailand to obtain vouchers for restaurants, flights and hotels via links on their feeds. Restaurants owners and merchants in those two countries are being encouraged to join the social … Read more
