Alibaba Group Holding Ltd BABA has been promoting its recent $4.63 billion investment in consumer electronics retailer Suning Commerce Group Co Ltd as its latest push toward “O2O.” O2O is a buzzword ...

According to HSBC, the Chinese O2O (online to offline) market is more than $150 billion in size with just 4% internet penetration. The online portion of this market surged 80% year on year to $47 ...

Despite its exceptional growth and the role it has played in transforming the retail landscape, ecommerce only accounts for about 5 percent of all retail sales. The main reason the majority of ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. China’s e-commerce industry is no longer just about selling goods on the internet. As internet penetration has ...

58.com is the clear leader in the home services O2O sector, with a huge user base of more than 300m monthly active users. And the O2O site further enhanced this dominant position in April 2015, by ...

Online to offline (“O2O”) commerce is all the buzz right now. Last year, when Alibaba invested over $3 billion in the technology, the media took note and journalists around the world began discussing ...

The internet is a big, big deal. In just over two decades, it has fundamentally changed nearly every industry on the planet. Companies that failed to see the opportunity until it was too late were ...

In China's competitive and fast-growing online-to-offline (O2O) market, more and more entrepreneurs are looking into customers' homes for untapped opportunities. Now Chinese customers have their nails ...

A digas is a 'vegetarian only' restaurant located in Shakambari Nagar, a quiet Bangalore suburb. Despite the efficient staff and quick turnover of patrons, over most weekends there is a wait time of ...