When you start to pickup latest news, the is only one headline that never goes away, the global recession, and ecomonic crisis. Somehow, something that is conflicting with this big headline, is the e-Retailing and online shopping industry is keep releasing the exciting news about the growing sales and revenue during this coming Christmas. Perhaps online shopping and e-commerce is one of the industry that is ‘Yet’ to be impacted peaceful heaven.

Market Research firm comScore figure shows that United States’ Cyber Monday sales has rising for 15% compare to Y2007, reaching US$846mil in revenue. For United States, the overall spending on e-Retailing (online shopping) has topping $887million in Dec 9th, making it the highest record in the history for a single day transaction. Compare to any other industry in US currently, the e-Retailing empire is the holy grail for the retailing industry.

According to Karin von Abrams, analyst from online research firm eMarketer also pointed out from the research conducted by Deloitte 14th Annual Christmas Retailing report, the e-retailing in UK is still a profitable business compare in the overall retailing industry. Deloitte also predicted that the total spending for online purchasing gifts, foods and presents will reaching $8.65billion, a 10% growth compare to last year.

Even the CEO of Google, Eric Schmidt also announced during his recent interview that, from the trending of the keyword search, it can foresee that the consumers nowsday are relying on the search engine to search for promotions and best price.

All these happen in US and UK, where e-Retailing business is matured. What about in Malaysia? or South East Asia? My question to Malaysian is, can anyone help me to name the top 3 e-Retailing site in Malaysia beside Lelong.com? I’ve been abit upset to read from recent e-Retailing report on Asia and Malaysia, where the Top 3 most visited e-commerce website is 1.Ebay, 2. Amazon, 3. Apple.

For all Malaysian Technopreneurs out there who inventing, reinventing, manipulating, or changing the DNA of Amazon.com to become your killer online store, lets have some talks. I know you guys are good in developing tools, and you can build the next Amazon, Facebook, Youtube or Alibaba with helps of open sources network, the bottom line, are you able to market it, which I means seriously, doing it big enough to match the scale of Amazon, Rakuten, Zlio, Alibaba? Lets have some talks folks!