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Lazada Indonesia: JP Morgan Investment Won’t Change Our Management System
Just recently, we got confirmation that JP Morgan has made an investment in Rocket Internet’s Asia-oriented e-commerce site Lazada. It’s natural for readers to be curious what changes are in store for...
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Startup Asia Bandung Hackathon: The Winners
After all the coffee, snacks, and code-crunching that more than 600 developers went through at the 24-hour hackathon at Startup Asia Bandung, came the highly-anticipated demo day. All the developers...
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Zalora Joins Many Indonesian E-Commerce Sites in 12-12-12 Sales Spectacular
Tomorrow is the wonderful date of the triple twelves – 12-12-2012 – and to make sure the day becomes even more special, seven Indonesian e-commerce stores are planning to hold online promotions and...
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Lazada and Indosat Offer Free iPhone 5 [CONTEST]
Rocket Internet’s e-commerce site Lazada Indonesia, together with Indonesian operator Indosat will hold a ten-person trivia contest tomorrow at midnight in Jakarta. And it will award the lucky winner...
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iPhone 5 Launches in Indonesia, Met With Queues and Contests
The iPhone 5 is finally launched today in Indonesia. Now, the phone can be ordered nationwide through its three carrier partners, Telkomsel, XL Axiata, and Indosat. It’s also for sale through other...
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9 Popular E-Commerce Sites in Indonesia
Our listing of popular e-commerce sites in Indonesia back in 2011 proved popular – but now it’s 2013 and time to update it. Recently we’ve seen several sites rise in the country, while others stumbled....
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9 Indonesian E-Commerce Players: We’re All Doing Fine!
In celebration of Indonesia’s biggest telco Telkomsel’s 18th anniversary on May 26th, nine local e-commerce sites will hold a one-week promotional program with special treatment for Telkomsel users...
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Lazada Indonesia To Give Away 1 Free OPPO Find 5 Smartphone (CONTEST)
(Thanks for all the entries, but now this contest is closed) Chinese handset maker OPPO has set foot in the Indonesian market recently, bringing in its flagship Oppo Find 5. What’s so special with the...
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Battling Against Rocket Internet’s Lazada, Bhinneka Wants to be Indonesia’s...
Indonesian homegrown B2C e-commerce site Bhinneka recently celebrated its 14th anniversary. The company has consistently made its presence felt among the country’s top online shop players and it is...
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Hold your horses: Indonesian government hasn’t approved any new regulation to...
Credit: Frontier Strategy Group Indonesia’s e-commerce scene recently got rocked by Ambient Digital Indonesia president and TokoBagus co-founder Remco Lupker’s discovery a couple of weeks ago that the...
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With very low e-banking penetration, here’s how Indonesian startups still...
Credit: Criminalatt MasterCard issued an interesting report today highlighting the current conditions of key markets across the world regarding the usage of cash and cashless payment methods. One of...
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5 reasons why Rocket Internet graduates make good entrepreneurs
We’ve seen our share of ex-Rocket Internet employees rocking the startup scene in Asia lately. They helped build companies like Zalora, Lazada, FoodPanda, and OfficeFab from the ground up. But they...
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Lazada’s former Indonesia CEO has ditched ecommerce for this live video...
“We’re different from YouTube because you dictate what’s going to happen,” explains Thomas Damek, founder of Zeemi.tv, which went live just last month in Jakarta. Zeemi.tv aims to be Indonesia’s first...
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Telcos and ecommerce firms dominate social media engagement in Indonesia
Local telco Telkomsel boasted the top Twitter engagement in Indonesia last month, according to a pair of reports from social media analytics firm Sotrender. Poland-based Sotrender aims to help...
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5 contenders up against Tokopedia, Indonesia’s newly-crowned ecommerce giant
Active Indonesian subdomain for AliExpress. Tech in Asia took a peek last night at the localized Indonesian version of AliExpress, Alibaba’s global consumer-facing marketplace, which appears to have...
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Did Xiaomi’s Redmi Note really sell out in 40 seconds in Indonesia?
Tech in Asia was monitoring the sales of Xiaomi’s Redmi Note on Lazada Indonesia today, and clocked the sell-out at just under four minutes. Moments later, however, Xiaomi’s VP of international Hugo...
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Lazada Group’s Magnus Ekbom on Indonesian ecommerce and crushing competitors
Magnus Ekbom, chief strategy officer of Lazada Group Magnus Ekbom sits quietly in the corner of Lazada Indonesia’s semi-new office in Jakarta’s Kuningan district, tapping away on a laptop. There’s no...
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28 popular online shopping sites in Indonesia
Photo credit: Tech in Asia’s Andre Gunawan. Indonesian ecommerce is one of the most talked about spaces in Southeast Asia’s tech startup world. Players like Lippo Group, Rocket Internet, Sequoia...
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Magnus Ekbom reclaims the crown as CEO of Lazada Indonesia
(Artwork by Tech in Asia’s Kathrinna Rakhmavika) Last time we checked in with Lazada Indonesia, the firm named Alexandre Dardy and Elizabeth Craft as the company’s new co-CEOs. The arrangement didn’t...
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Lazada to introduce Alipay in Indonesia, says new country CEO
Duri Granziol (l) and Florian Holm, the new leadership duo at Lazada Indoensia. Photo credit: Lazada. Leadership reshuffles at Lazada Indonesia are nothing new. Magnus Ekbom stepped in and out of the...
View ArticleLazada names new head of Indonesian operations
Chun Li will retain his regional role as co-president of Lazada.
View ArticleIn 50 Words: James Chang named new CEO of Lazada Indonesia
James Chang, new CEO of Lazada Indonesia, was once CEO of Lazada Singapore.
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