News & Reviews:   online shopping

Google just announced that their Try On feature, which allows you to virtually try on clothes, is now available in Malaysia. Previously available in just the US, it is rolling out to Google Shopping, Search and Google Images. While measurements are not exact, it does let you see how you might look with that clothing you’ve been eyeing.

At the Singapore FinTech Festival, Mastercard unveiled an ambitious vision to transform e-commerce in the Asia Pacific: making online shopping completely password-free and card-number-free by 2030. While over a third of Mastercard transactions worldwide are already tokenised, realising this vision in the Asia Pacific — projected to exceed USD 7 trillion by 2030 — will require collaboration across the payments ecosystem.

It is estimated that Malaysians spent a staggering RM707.9 billion via e-commerce platforms in 2024, equivalent to 36.7% of our country’s gross domestic product (GDP). This is according to Dr Mohd Afzanizam Abdul Rashid, the Chief Economist of Bank Muamalat Malaysia Berhad, as estimated by the latest data from the Department of Statistics Malaysia (DOSM).

The Ministry of Finance (MOF) revealed that the Digital Service Tax raked in RM1.6 billion in revenue in 2024. MOF announced the figure in a written Parliamentary reply yesterday (18 February) to a question by Bera MP and former Prime Minister Datuk Seri Ismail Sabri Yaakob.

Online bots and scams have been prevalent as of late. Hence, it is understandable why everyone is cautious when shopping online. Thanks to this new AI tool, Fakespot, you can detect fake online reviews and make a more informed purchase.

If you've been to e-commerce platforms and felt lost, you're not the only one. Searching for what you need isn't always easy, but there are ways to make it easier. For Lazada, artificial intelligence (AI) is the solution.

Any platform with a high number of users can be monetised, and that seems to be what many companies intend. In the last few years, we've seen an increasing number of social media sites getting monetise in one way or another. Well, TikTok is next on the list.

While staying at home, online shopping has become an activity that plays out almost every day for most of us. Online shopping platforms have also introduced great sales for users to spend as little as possible, especially when it comes to that repeating day and month pattern. With that said, Shopee 9.9 Super Shopping Day is happening soon, and this time, they have invited Jackie Chan to be the ambassador of the event.

With the Enhanced Movement Control Order (EMCO), certain states in Malaysia have to adhere to strict standard operation procedures (SOP). As you would expect, this has a noticeable impact on many businesses. Unfortunately, Shopee is one of them.

It's inevitable for technology to progress, something to also applies to mobile apps. When it comes to content, photos are just one of many we see online. That's why Instagram no longer considers it enough and has been working on expanding the functionality of its platform.