Taiwan PayEasy expansion via Vending Machine?

It not uncommon for us to hear what's started off as online pureplay e-commerce, expanding their business via brick & mortar.

We have seen small business, growing from one-man-show blogshop, to a full fledge webStore, and then follow by a physical retail outlet (which easily double their gross sales, both online & offline)

We have seen also the famous t-shirt site like threadless.com, opening up retail store.

But it's NOT so common B2C pureplay plotting their next growth on....

PayPal Takes Visa & MasterCard, No account needed?

PayPal is taking Visa & Mastercard, this time without the need of registering a PayPal Account?

We know PayPal has been saying buyer can checkout without a PayPal Account (by just using key-in their credit cards details) if they shop with Merchant who accepts PayPal (must be either Premier or Business Account.) Now they have released something "newer" - dubbed as "GUEST PAYMENT" (via Adaptive Payment API).

Is postal service in Malaysia really that unreliable?

There is an online group-buying site being launched in Malaysia a few months ago, which has quickly became popular among local consumers - thanks to the heavily discounted retail vouchers being offered.

However, it seems like many don't receive the vouchers via post. Proof: their Facebook page.

The complaints are mounting and people are being suspicious whether the group-buying service is fulfilling the order. An email exchange with their person-in-charge reveals the following as part of their response:

This is why Asia has big E-Commerce potential

Many have said that Asia has the biggest market potential in almost every industries. The question is, does that include e-commerce?

ComScore has just released State of the Internet with focus on Asia Pacific (July 2010) and it gives us some basic indications on the market potential of online retailing in Asia Pacific.