News & Reviews:   eCommerce

Google Cloud has announced the Agent Payments Protocol (AP2), a new open standard to securely initiate and process payments led by AI agents. The move is a significant step into the future of commerce, particularly for Southeast Asia, where the combined gross merchandise value of e-commerce and other online services exceeded RM1.1 trillion in 2024. So, would you use an AI Agent to do your shopping?

Today, Ninja Van Malaysia announces the launch of 44 new international delivery lanes. The company is making global e-commerce more accessible by connecting Malaysian brands to key markets across Asia Pacific, North America, Latin America, the Middle East, and Europe.

Lazada today announced the launch of LazLive+, a new curated interactive live content series that features trusted experts to share tips and skills with shoppers. LazLive+ episodes will debut on 25 July 2022 with daily 1 hour episodes from 9 to 10pm until 29 July 2022.

Based on a statement by bloomberg, it seems that Google could be working with some sort of video integration which could allow content creators to advertise their products on their Youtube videos. But that’s not all, it seems that YouTube could be working closely with Shopify in order to facilitate the selling of products via Youtube.

From 25 September until 10 October 2020, get up to 70% off selected products during the Shopee 10.10 Brand Festival where you can even get 100% authentic products on massive discounts as well. But that’s not all, you could also take part in the various activities including Shopee Farm, Shopee Claw, Shopee Poly, and more to stand a chance to win your share of the RM1000000 prize pool.

In light of COVID-19 outbreak, Shopee has recently announced that they will further increase the number of face masks available for purchase on their e-commerce platform. Not only that, but they also encourage Shopee customers to report any face masks that are above the regulated retail ceiling price.

Surprisingly, popular eCommerce company Alibaba recently unveiled their designs for a foldable smartphone which can be folded over twice. This design is quite unique due to the fact that foldable smartphones from Huawei, Samsung and Motorola can only be folded once.

Touch ‘n Go in collaboration with Lazada has recently announced that you can make purchases on Lazada via the Touch ‘n Go eWallet payment option, which can be found on checkout. This can be beneficial for both Touch ‘n Go as well as Lazada, due to the fact that this gives customers who do not have access to either a debit or credit card to make purchases online.

Shopee Malaysia recently revealed that they have made it into the top 10 most visited sites in Malaysia, becoming the number one e-commerce site in the country (according to Comscore). With 16 million downloads of the Shopee app, Shopee Malaysia will soon hold their 27.3 Shopee Mega sale starting from 21 to 27 March 2019.

Shopee Malaysia and FPX have announced a collaboration to help online sellers on Shopee be more efficient and effective sellers on Shopee via the Shopee University. For those who don't know, FPX by PayNet is Shopee's online payment provider while Shopee University is the online marketplace's educational portal for their Shopee sellers. Shopee University was launched in 2016 offering workshops and tutorials that now more than 5000 sellers have benefited from.