More established e-commerce businesses, led by the likes of Alibaba and Rakuten, are investing heavily in social to maintain growth momentum and give them direct access to millions of users via social networks and messaging apps. One only needs to look at Rakuten’s $900 million acquisition of chat app Viber just last week, and Alibaba’s $586 million investment in the Sina Weibo microblogging platform last year, to see that e-commerce businesses are betting big on social.
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It’s also about the legal and commercial challenges this growth is creating.
Connected Asia is mostly written by Matt Pollins, who’s a lawyer based in Singapore (and originally based in London).Matt is part of the team at Olswang Asia. Olswang is one of the world’s leading tech, media and telecoms law firms with offices in London, Madrid, Paris, Brussels, Berlin, Munich and Singapore and an international network of best friend firms.
If you’re interested in any of the topics discussed here, please do get in touch.
It wouldn’t be a legal blog without a disclaimer. Views expressed on Connected Asia are the author’s own and not those of Olswang or anyone else. Nothing on Connected Asia constitutes legal advice or creates a lawyer-client relationship.
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