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Souq Might Be One Of Amazon’s Best Acquisitions

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By Hendrik Laubscher, Buy Box Experts There are few e-Commerce markets as exciting as the Middle East. The area contains some of the wealthiest people on earth, and a market likely to experience consistent growth due to technology becoming a focus as natural resources (oil) diminish.

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Your Quick Start Guide to Cross-Border Ecommerce in China, India & The Middle East

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Against India’s annual growth rate of 51%, China’s ecommerce market is growing at 18%, Japan at 11% and South Korea at 10%. Here’s how to get on that market right now. . While Amazon begins to tap into India, Flipkart remains the market leader in terms of marketplace opportunity for selling across borders. .

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How Amazon and Independent Ecommerce Brands Grew Online Sales 18,233% in 20 Years [Infographic]

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But who could have predicted back then that an online bookstore would, in two decades time, become one of the world’s most dominant online stores –– offering everything from the books they started with to the high-end fashion that resisted for so long? 20 years ago, there were a measly 40 million people using the internet in the U.S.,

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