Global esports ecosystem reaps the rewards of 2018 2018 was the year esports broke out of its comfort zone. The world of competitive, organized video gaming saw the entry of competitions into primetime TV with the inaugural championship of Blizzard’s Overwatch League on Disney’s ESPN last July and the Asian Games in Indonesia where six…
Alibaba’s logistics arm Cainiao Smart Logistics Network had reportedly delivered the first 100 million parcels from the Singles Day Global Shopping Festival in just 2.6 days, illustrating that the e-commerce giant is quite simply on a whole another level to the logistics companies in Southeast Asia which are beset by infrastructure challenges.
Just last week, DHL launched a new service to allow the unbanked in Southeast Asia to buy online through its Cross Border Cash-on-Delivery (COD) service. This follows other new-age players like Grab/Go-Jek aggressively launching initiatives of their own to provide financial services to people who don’t have banking accounts.