Southeast Asia’s digital payments market has crossed the $1 trillion threshold in total transaction value — and the infrastructure that makes it work looks nothing like what you’d find in … Read more
Naver Corporation isn’t a search engine with side projects — it’s a vertically integrated ecosystem where search, commerce, payments, content, and AI reinforce each other across every layer. In 2025, … Read more
A super app is a single mobile application that bundles multiple services — rides, deliveries, payments, lending, shopping, entertainment — into one platform. The concept barely exists in the West, … Read more
Coupang doesn’t outsource its logistics. It owns them. That single decision — made over a decade ago when the company was still burning through venture capital — is the reason … Read more
Tokopedia isn’t the company it was two years ago. What started in 2009 as a homegrown Indonesian marketplace — founded by William Tanuwijaya and Leontinus Alpha Edison to connect small-town … Read more
Why does Sea Group matter in 2026? Sea Limited closed 2025 with $22.9 billion in revenue, $1.6 billion in net income, and three businesses operating at scale that almost no … Read more
Southeast Asia’s e-commerce platforms generated $157.6 billion in GMV in 2025, up 22.8% year-on-year (Momentum Works, April 2026). India’s e-retail market crossed $65 billion in the same period, growing 19–21% … Read more
Lazada isn’t the biggest e-commerce platform in Southeast Asia — it hasn’t been for a while. But it might be the most interesting one right now. Backed by approximately $7.7 … Read more
PhonePe processes 48% of all UPI transactions in India. Paytm handles roughly 7%. Two years ago, that gap was half as wide. The Reserve Bank of India’s crackdown on Paytm … Read more
Coupang delivered 99.6% of South Korean orders within 24 hours in 2025. Amazon covered 98% of Japan’s population with next-day delivery that same year. Two companies, both obsessed with logistics-first … Read more