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 ...

Just two years ago, "online to offline (O2O)" was merely a concept in China, but now, the mode is regarded as the new trend of the entire retail industry and is expected to become most influential on ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Adam Hayes, Ph.D., CFA, is a financial writer with 15+ years Wall Street experience as a derivatives trader. Besides his extensive derivative trading expertise, Adam is an expert in economics and ...