Glints, the most trusted and active end-to-end regional talent ecosystem in Southeast Asia for career development and recruitment, raised US$50 million in a Series D oversubscribed round co-led by DCM Ventures, Lavender Hill Capital, and returning investor PERSOL Holdings. “Our mission at Glints is to empower the 120 million young professionals in Southeast Asia to […]
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eBay, a global e-commerce leader connecting millions of buyers and sellers worldwide, released its Southeast Asia Small Online Business Trade Report 2022 (“Report”), highlighting the successes of small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in Southeast Asia in expanding their global reach and selling to international markets using the eBay global marketplace. SMEs are the backbone of Southeast Asia’s economy […]
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Razer Fintech, the financial technology arm of Razer, the leading global lifestyle brand for gamers, today announced the acquisition of PT E2Pay Global Utama (“E2Pay”), one of the leading B2B2C digital payment facilitators and e-money players in Indonesia. Razer Fintech is already a leading O2O (offline to online) digital payment network in Southeast Asia, and […]
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As businesses prepare for a rebound in the post pandemic world, Asia’s quick-commerce (q-commerce) pioneer, foodpanda, has remained committed to supporting SMEs across the region to embrace digitalisation. Almost 30,000 retail shops were onboarded on foodpanda shops in the past year, with SMEs making up almost half of shops that had gone digital. This marks the first step […]
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DHL Global Forwarding, the leading international freight specialist division of Deutsche Post DHL Group, foresees a strong and sustained growth in cross-border road transportation in Southeast Asia where the e-commerce sector is expected to grow 5.5% in 2021. The predicted upswing is driven by the renewed economic growth in many of Southeast Asia’s leading economies, […]
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Coupang, the NASDAQ-listed e-commerce company from South Korea, is actively recruiting talents in Singapore. This is a clear sign that the firm is expanding to Singapore or even the Southeast Asia region. At the time of writing, there are 12 Singapore-based job opportunities posted on Coupang’s career page. The openings in Singapore range from Business […]
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With a net worth of $7.1B, China-born Forrest Li is the seventh richest man (update: ranked the richest as of September 2021) in Singapore, he is the Chairman & CEO of Sea Limited. Co-founded by Forrest Li, Gang Ye and David Chen, Sea Limited is the holding company for Shopee, SeaMoney and Garena. Originated from […]
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