Lazada Launches Seller Center Android App – the First Mobile Selling Platform in Southeast Asia

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Southeast Asia’s leading online shopping and selling destination Lazada has launched its Seller Centre Android app to make selling on its marketplace platform even more effortless for brands and merchants across the region.

Since its launch in 2013, Lazada’s marketplace platform has reached almost 20,000 sellers which accounts for approximately 75% of Lazada’s overall sales in Southeast Asia.

The Seller Center is an online platform for marketplace sellers to manage inventory, pricing, promotions and orders. As an app, it packs all the important features designed for sellers to manage their business on-the-go.

“Lazada has become the one-stop retail gateway of choice for local and international sellers to enter and grow their business in Southeast Asia. With this Seller Centre Android app, our partners are equipped with an effortless selling tool that they can access anytime to maximize their sales,” said Maximilian Bittner, CEO, Lazada Group.

TOPS-LRA Summit 2015: Measuring Our Gains and Meeting the Challenges Ahead

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The 2nd TOPS-LRA Summit was held at the Fairmont Hotel in Makati City on July 28, 2015. The summit is a collaborative project of The Organization of Property Stakeholders Inc. (TOPS) and the Land Registration Authority (LRA).

With a theme of "Measuring Our Gains and Meeting the Challenges Ahead," the summit aspires to provide new solutions and strategies to future challenges that might slow down the development of the property sector in the country. Experts and leaders talked about climate change, geological hazards, E-titling, computerized land registration, BIR initiatives, the Uniform Loan And Mortgage Agreement (ULAMA) and the real estate industry’s contributions to the national economy.

Giving the welcome address was Michael Jansen Abella, President of TOPS while Atty Rodolfo "Rudy" Fernandez, Vice Presidnet of BPI Family Savings Bank, gave the summit overview. Atty. Carla Uykim, Senior Assistant Vice President of Megaworld Corporation introduced the Keynote Speaker in the morning who was Secretary Arsenio Balisacan, Director General of the National Economic and Development Authority (NEDA), while Hon. Nestor A. Espenilla Jr., Deputy Governor of the Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas (BSP) was the keynote speaker in the afternoon.

YouthHack Manila Startup Challenge 2015 Highlights

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The YouthHack Manila Startup Challenge was held on July 25 & 26, 2015 at Xavier School in Greenhills, San Juan, with lots of big activities like workshops and keynote speeches from some of the big names in the startup industry, a youth-run startup fair, and a big competition for high school and university students.

YouthHack Founder David Ongchoco opens the Startup Challenge with his origin story. “It felt surreal for the 18 year-old who just graduated high school,” he says. Moved by hackathons, Ongchoco realized the potential of the youth to contribute to (and revolutionize) the intersecting worlds of technology and entrepreneurship. We made our own interview with the very young founder, as well as his core team mates, so go watch the video below and be inspired from their stories. Due to time limitations we will be posting first the interview with David, and we will soon post the second part where we also interviewed his core team.

We heard talks from Paul Rivera, CEO of Kalibrr; Donald Lim, Chief Digital Officer of ABS-CBN, Dennis Mendiola of Chikka; Pinky Natividad, venture capitalist and catalyst from Katalyst.ph; Mark Colentava, founder of Balanga Makerspace and Project Manager of CoinSaver, Roxi Lim of Kalibrr, design mastermind Brian Tenorio, and Uber’s Raymond Castillo.