Homegrown shopping site VeMeBro will be using “speed” in delivery to break the virtually duopoly controlled by industry giants Lazada and Shopee over the country’s booming e-commerce industry.
Shoppers spent a total of more than 420 million minutes on the platform, while consumers also launched the app an average of 7 times per day, which is twice compared to a normal day.
2020 marked a momentous year of growth for Shopee as it was the year that consumers increasingly turned to e-commerce for their everyday needs as they spent more time at home.
Through an open letter, over 150 diverse groups called on online shopping sites to take concrete steps to cut their packaging footprint as the country and whole world grapple with increasing plastic waste and pollution crisis.
The malicious app visits smartphone app stores, downloads, and launches applications and leaves fake reviews on behalf of the user, all while hiding itself from the device owner.
In the Philippines, 16.04% of children have attempted to visit or actually visited online retail sites based on data from Kaspersky in 2018-2019, up from only 0.74% in 2017-2018.
