This week, online marketplace Honestbee has opened up a dining-cum-grocery store in Singapore that is closely integrated with modern technologies to offer "a multi-sensory" shopping experience. Spanning 60,000 square feet, Habitat by Honestbee is touted as a "full supermarket, speciality [...]

This week, Grab and Fave have formed a new partnership that aims to grow the companies' online platforms and services in Singapore and Malaysia. Under the alliance, daily deals site Fave would integrate GrabPay and GrabFood on its platform, enabling its [...]

This week, Singapore electronics retailer Audio House has rolled out a new payment system that lets customers scan QR codes to complete their purchases; and they can do so using their own banking apps. Audio House said it had adopted NETS [...]

This week, Alibaba Group has unveiled a one-year leadership succession plan as its executive chairman, Jack Ma, prepares to leave the company he co-founded and hand over the reins to current CEO Daniel Zhang. Ma, whose face and name have become [...]

This week, JD.com has teamed up with several hotels to showcase its technologies and marketplace products, enabling guests to purchase items they find in their rooms. Selected rooms at these partner hotels including Wanda, Sheraton, Beijing 5L, and Greenland, would be [...]

This week, Google has unveiled a rebranding of its digital payments service and plans for further expansion of the platform in India, where consumers have made more than 750 million transactions with the app. Called 'Tez', when it was launched in [...]

This week, JD.com unveils a new blockchain platform that it says is aimed at helping companies access and develop their own applications on the technology to better secure their operations. The new platform allows businesses to create and modify smart [...]

This week, ride-sharing operator Grab has further expanded its offerings to include grocery delivery as well as unveiled a suite of APIs (application programming interfaces) to allow other companies to integrate their services with Grab's platform. The grocery service, called [...]

This week, we find out that online shoppers in Asia-Pacific are most likely to abandon their carts, with 52% doing so, compared to 46% in North America and 43% in Europe. Moreover, just 25% in this region expressed interest in [...]

This week, Alibaba's logistics arm has announced plans to build a logistics hub in Hong Kong, setting aside USD$1.53bn (£1.14bn) for the new development, while JD.com has turned on an AI system to 'speed-write' product descriptions and shopping guides. To [...]