In this post, I share up to date key facts about China digital landscape: overall number of internet users, mobile internet users, 4G, e-commerce, mobile payment, gaming and of course…
Hi there, Due to popular demand for my previous post about “South Korea e-commerce landscape” back in 2016, I am updating it with the latest data points from Mar 2019…
As a highly advanced economy, Singapore media landscape is in many ways not as advanced as it should be. E-commerce penetration is still very low. Traditional media still dominates. Please…
This post is the updated version of the 2019 post on the same topic of the Singapore media landscape. You may be surprised to learn that:
Singapore’s GDP per capita (in PPP term) is 60% higher than Hong Kong or the US.
Singapore’s e-commerce is not as well developed as China, South Korea, and some other markets.
Singapore is still an offline heavy market.
There are many other facts below and I hope you enjoy them.
Do you know that?
South Korea retail e-commerce penetration (as a percentage of total retail) is third in the world?
South Korea’s e-commerce growth rate in 2020 is expected to be 5 times that of Japan?
The US is the top cross border country that South Koreans buy online from.
Read more to find out
Do you know that?
China will have close to 1 billion internet users in a few years.
China has more smartphone users than the US and India combined.
Retail e-commerce sales in China is 3 times that of the US.
This post will include up to date, relevant facts about overall China’s digital landscape.
This is the second part of my series about the four most critical global challenges facing humankind in the next 50 – 100 years. In the previous post, I went into more detail about “#1. Climate change / ecological collapse” and “#2. War between civilizations”. Today it will be about “#3. Impact of technology” and “#4. Global inequality”.
In the first post of 2020, I want to share my learnings about the biggest challenges in the next 30 -50 years facing humankind. I am interested in this topic because well, my generation (and my daughter’s generation) will definitely experience the consequences of these challenges.
While the overall US GDP has grown almost three times since 1979 – 2018, the median real wage (50th percentile) increased by only 6.1% during the same period. For Men, the median wage decreased by 5.1%. It hit the low-income (bottom 10th percentile) worker group the hardest with a decrease of 13.3%.
It is a must-read for anyone who is interested to know how the US/China relationship may play out in the future by learning about what happened 16 times where a rising power challenged an established power in the last 500 years.
Brands looking for alternatives to WeChat can find plenty of platforms that offer a closed-loop marketing solution from awareness to consideration and through to sales.
Two brilliant authors/historians/thinkers discussed key issues of today and what they meant for our tomorrow.
