Top Online Shopping Platform
By: Jehoshua Bathan
We all know that online shopping is a trend right now, where we can buy anything we want from the smallest earrings to huge cars or even a property! Online shopping is much easier than the usual shopping; it can also save a lot of time and energy particularly here in our country which heavy traffic and over-populated is one of the general problem. Before we go to the top list of Top Online Shopping Platform let me introduces you first what is Online Platform. Online Platform is an online marketplace where buyers and sellers meet, seller post’s their products online and shoppers choose whatever product or services they want and pay thru online via their credits cards or even upon delivery. These Online Shopping Platforms is really a proof that our technology is keep on going up. Below you can see the top list of online shopping platforms international and local.
eBay was founded in 1995 by Pierre Omidyar and name it It was first called AuctionWeb and became eBay later on. It is a multibillion-dollar business with operations in about 30 countries. eBay group have a online auction style-sale and shopping website in which people and businesses buy and sell a different variety of products and services worldwide. Millions of items are bought on eBay every day.
LAZADA is a group who is privately owned by a German E-commerce company and founded by Rocket Internet in 2011. As of 2014, Lazada Group branch out their business sites in Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore, Thailand, Vietnam and our country Philippines. Lazada raised approximately US $647 million over several investment rounds from its investors.
ZALORA GROUP is an e-retailer founded by the same founder of LAZADA Rocket Internet and launched in 2012 together with operations in several South East Asian countries like Indonesia, Malaysia, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Brunei, Singapore, and of course our country Philippines. The group also raised $100 million US dollars in 1 year and in the second round raised over $110 million US dollars.
OLX.COM.PH is an Argentinean global online marketplace, and was founded in 2006. Olx is operating in 45 countries and it is the largest online classified ads company in countries like India, Brazil, Pakistan, Poland, Ukraine and our country Philippines. In 2014 the OLX is well-known marketplace in buying and selling services and goods such as furniture, electronics, household goods, vehicles and properties. OLX had 8.5 million transactions per month in the year 2014 and 11 billion page views. Olx has 200 million monthly active users and 25 million listings.
Shopify is one of the most powerful all-in-one ecommerce platforms out there. Shopify was establish in 2004 and one of the first online shopping platforms. Shopify is a managed platform that can take care of products, inventory, orders and a user friendly and requires very little technical skill to set up and use. It also has a app store which offer over 1000 helpful apps which makes the shopify more advance than other online shopping platform. Shopify revenue is over $10 Billion and has 170,000 merchants.
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