Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Serenity Gibbons is a business consultant who covers entrepreneurs. Over the past 20 years, online shopping has evolved from an ...

It would seem the hype in the lead-up to Singles Day was justified, with Alibaba posting a record $17.8 billion in online sales, easily surpassing the $14 billion record set in 2015. A startling ...

(Yicai) Dec. 10 -- The Chinese fast-moving consumer goods market, which has stabilized after a sluggish last year, is ...

The gist of O2O is that, while a large part of traditional brick-and-mortar retail sales can be replaced by e-commerce, there are elements to physical shopping that cannot (or should not) be ...

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 worldwide lockdown has increased online purchases as compared to previous years. In 2020, about 42% of the U.S. population bought groceries online because of Covid-19, which is nearly twice the ...

The O2O model is altering the face of Vietnam's retail market, with all players preparing strategies to acquire new customers and optimize sales. Dozens of Now shippers sometimes queue up for hours at ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Consumer demand for convenience and restaurateur demand for low-cost marketing should underpin long-term growth ...

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 ...

Editor’s note: With the growth of local commerce on the Web, the links between online and physical commerce are becoming stronger. In this guest post, Alex Rampell, the CEO and founder of TrialPay, ...