Smartkarma’s Week That Was in JP/KR: $30 Billion, 5,000, & 0.97
The last two weeks of August tend to be the "calm before the storm" period in the fall/winter. In this weekly, the "appetizers" include some...
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Alibaba (BABA): Logistics Fails as Part of Aggressive Diversification
Operating margin plunged to 10% in 1Q19 versus 35% in 1Q18. Revenue growth accelerated merely due to the additions of new business lines. Cainiao...
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Sea Ltd: Nice Monetization Progress but No Signs of EBITDA Turnaround (Yet)
Digital Entertainment (DE) division of Sea Ltd (SE US) continues to grow healthily, with first self-developed game (titled Free Fire) gaining...
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Meituan Dianping – Alibaba Investing Billions to Reach 50% Market Share
Jd.Com Inc (Adr) (JD US) with Walmart, Alibaba Group Holding (BABA US) with Softbank Group (9984 JP), Meituan Dianping (MEITUAN CH) with Tencent...
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Disruption Diaries: Confessions of a Freshly-Converted Online Grocery Shopaholic
Like many other expat professionals in Singapore, I preferred to delegate my grocery shopping to our house-help who would shop at the nearby...
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