Investors looking for Chinese stocks to buy in 2014 got an amazing opportunity with Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. (NYSE: BABA), the largest IPO in U.S. history, when it started trading Sept. 19. While Alibaba (which is actually based in the Cayman Islands, not China) is the biggest player in the…

Although Australia isn’t the largest market or country in the Asia-Pacific region, it still packs a big punch in e-commerce. yStats.com, researcher and reporter on international market trends, recently published a report regarding the potential growth of the business-to-consumer (B2C) e-commerce market is the Asia-Pacific region. The report details the…

While the global B2C ecommerce market is booming, there are luxury brands that have yet to embrace this sales channel, according to a press report by ystats.com.   As a result, growing luxury ecommerce revenues have gone to online and multichannel retailers and flash sales sites.  But as some of the…

Australia has the third highest business-to-consumer e-commerce sales rates in the AsiaPacific region, according to a report by German-based  research firm yStats.com. The latest Asia-Pacific B2C e-Commerce Market Study found Australia has one of the most developed infrastructures, with internet penetration reaching more than 80 per cent of the total…

Though smaller in population than some emerging B2C ecommerce countries, advanced infrastructure and consumer behaviour favour online retail in Australia and New Zealand, says a latest report by Hamburg-based business intelligence organization yStats.com. One interesting aspect which has emerged from the report is that, while fashion apparel emerges as one…