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Foursquare expands presence in Asia, announces new Singapore office
Forms partnerships with Tencent, Samsung, LG, Carousell and more.
Grab to create 5 million micro-entrepreneurs in Indonesia by 2018
Grab launches Phase II of ‘Grab 4 Indonesia’ with new goals.
Grab to acquire Indonesian O2O platform Kudo
The Kudo team and platform will be integrated with Grab’s proprietary mobile payments platform, GrabPay.
Grab appoints Jason Thompson as head of GrabPay
He will oversee the development of new payments technologies that will deepen financial inclusion and increase access to mobile payments services across Southeast Asia.
Groupon Malaysia is now Fave
Fave announces that Groupon Malaysia will be consolidated under a single brand and operate as Fave moving forward.
Karamjit Singh: My Fave 5 of 2016
Among his top five stories of the year is one on the lack of innovation among manufacturing based SMEs which Karamjit Singh feels presents a clear and present danger to Malaysia's ambitions.
KFit to drop e-commerce of Groupon Malaysia, focus on being best sales app
KFit Group aims to be best sales app, via Fave, for local businesses. In talks to very strategic investors to help it build market leading O2O platform.
Betting that Bricks & Clicks is future of commerce, KFit Group acquires Groupon Malaysia in SEA push
Betting that the future of commerce in SEA will be Bricks & Clicks, Joel Neoh engineers KFit Group's acquisition of another Groupon subsidiary, Groupon Malaysia.
Brick-and-mortar retailer Alfamart goes full throttle on e-commerce
One of Indonesia’s biggest brick-and-mortar retailers, Alfamart Group, has completed its e-commerce transformation with the birth of Alfacart, driven by three young executives who were previously from Zalora and Lazada.
DNA on BFM: Senheng to take on e-commerce merchants
Traditional electrical goods retailer Senheng’s upcoming e-commerce launch and DNA’s July 28 What’s Next conference has Karamjit Singh excited.
