e-commerce
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Criteo: AI Reshapes How SEA Shoppers Discover Brands
Criteo’s Q4 data shows Southeast Asian shoppers take weeks to compare brands before buying, with AI assistants reshaping how that research begins. Continue reading
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Agentic AI Search Grows 200% in Shopping Journeys
Shoppers are increasingly starting their purchase journey with a question to an AI rather than a search bar, according to Salesforce‘s Fourth Edition State of Commerce report. Use of agentic search as the first step in the shopping journey grew… Continue reading
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Klaviyo Opens Singapore HQ as AI Reshapes Shopping
Klaviyo has opened its Asia headquarters in Singapore with EDB backing, as new research finds 76% of Singapore shoppers have used AI to help with a purchase in the past three months and over half are open to AI agents… Continue reading
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TikTok Shop to Train 3,000 Singapore Creators
TikTok Shop pledges to train 1,000 sellers and 3,000 creators as part of a broader push to strengthen Singapore’s discovery commerce ecosystem, backed by government support. Continue reading
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Akamai: APAC Commerce Bot Attacks Surged 63% in 2025
Akamai research finds APAC commerce bot activity rose 63% in 2025, the fastest of any region, as AI-driven shopping expands the attack surface. Continue reading
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Pinduoduo Eyes Singapore: What the Chinese E-Commerce Giant’s Arrival Means
Singaporeans scrolling through their feeds have begun noticing advertisements for Pinduoduo, the Chinese e-commerce platform that has quietly extended subsidised shipping to the city-state. The move signals a broader push by the platform’s parent company, PDD Holdings, into Southeast Asia… Continue reading
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Everyday E-commerce: New Ways of Paying, Accelerated New Ways of Buying
By: Kelvin Phua, Head of Global Payment Networks, PPRO Gone are the days of in-store or online. Retail commerce – even in-store – has transformed almost completely into digital commerce, the term used to describe the blend of online and… Continue reading
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Financial threats in 2020: fintech, mobile banking and e-commerce are in the crosshairs
In 2020, financially motivated cyber threat actors may start to target investment apps, online financial data processing systems and upcoming cryptocurrencies, along with providing paid access to banks’ infrastructures and developing new strains of mobile banking malware based on leaked… Continue reading
