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18/04/2024 Apple CEO Tim Cook says it is considering a manufacturing facility in Indonesia ( Electronics )
18/04/2024 Google Maps to show alternate transit and walking directions along with driving routes ( General )
17/04/2024 Apple releases iOS 17.5 beta 2 giving EU iPhone users more unique capabilities ( E-Tailing )
17/04/2024 WhatsApp rolls out new chat filters to help you locate unread and group conversations ( General )
16/04/2024 Google Chat working on adding group audio and video call function within Gmail Spaces ( General )
15/04/2024 Tim Cook arrives in Vietnam ( Electronics )
15/04/2024 Vietravel Airlines reports first profits in 3 years ( General )
11/04/2024 Samsung adds more language availability within Galaxy AI ( Electronics )
11/04/2024 YouTube Music promises Podcasts will get better on the platform ( General )
09/04/2024 WhatsApp to roll out new photo library shortcut for faster sharing ( General )
09/04/2024 Google Messages will soon start to warn you when tapping on links sent by unknown senders ( General )
08/04/2024 Siri might end up King in the realm of digital assistants after iOS 18 AI makeover ( Electronics )
05/04/2024 Google’s “Find My Device” network reportedly launching in 3 days ( General )
04/04/2024 Instagram, Facebook, Whatsapp users are reporting a “Major Disruption” worldwide ( General )

Retail Asia17/04/2024

Surely there are iPhone users living outside of the EU who wish that their country had something like the Digital Market Act (DMA) that forces Apple to unbutton locked-down iPhone capabilities. For example, with iOS 17.4, iPhone users in the EU could install browsers using browser engines other than Apple’s WebKit. It also allows iPhone […]

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Retail Asia29/03/2024

Ready for some help with online shopping? Google’s got you covered with a new experimental personalized shopping experience for some users in the U.S. If you use a mobile browser or the Google app to shop for accessories or apparel, you’ll now have a new section called “style recommendations”. Users in the United States who […]

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Retail Asia14/03/2024

Coupang customers in South Korea can now directly purchase products from Japan, thanks to the e-commerce platform’s expansion of its overseas direct purchase service. With Japanese products now available through the Rocket Jikgu direct purchase service, customers can now purchase food from brands such as Nissin, Meiji, LeTao, and AGF, and beauty items from brands […]

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Retail Asia06/03/2024

Myntra has secured a US$54 million investment from parent company Flipkart amid its tough competition with Reliance’s Ajio and Tata Cliq. This is Flipkart’s second investment in Myntra following $105 million in March last year. The new investment came as Walmart, Flipkart’s largest shareholder, committed $600 million to the India-headquartered parent company as part of […]

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Retail Asia23/02/2024

Buy2sell Vietnam has received commendable reviews from international partners like Mykitkat, Leifredy, Kate of Tokyo, DrLoule, and Nunalin. In the dynamic realm of international commerce, Buy2sell Vietnam has emerged as one of the leading companies in importing and distributing goods and as a beacon of excellence garnering customer and supplier praise worldwide. In this narrative […]

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Retail Asia20/02/2024

Lucas Ngoo, the co-founder of Singapore-based online marketplace Carousell, says he will step down from managing the company’s operations. “After 11.5 remarkable years, I have made the personal decision to take a break and step back from day-to-day management of Carousell at the end of the month,” Ngoo wrote in a LinkedIn post. He added […]

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Retail Asia06/02/2024

According to U.S. e-commerce giant Amazon, cross-border e-commerce is expected to be the fifth-highest value export of Vietnam by 2027, with a value of US$12 billion. “2023 Performance Report: Empowering Small and Medium-sized Enterprises in Vietnam” published by the firm’s Amazon Global Selling Vietnam, a unit that supports sellers, said by 2027 cross-border e-commerce exports […]

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Retail Asia06/02/2024

Amazon is among the companies that has iterated a lot when it comes to artificial intelligence. The US-based giant continues to develop new AI tools, especially now that AI is the main buzzword in the tech world. The latest AI-powered feature introduced by Amazon is Rufus, an AI assistant that’s supposed to help users with their shopping […]

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Retail Asia02/02/2024

Back in ancient times, supermarkets used to hand out paper brochures with the week’s top offers. Naturally, you didn’t pay much attention to the product image – you focused on the price. It’s only after you try to sell something online – and you need a cool product photo – that you realize there’s a […]

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Retail Asia25/01/2024

Jensen Huang, President and CEO of California-based artificial intelligence chip designer Nvidia, recently visited China for the first time in years, to attend the company’s new year party with local employees. Last week, Huang traveled to Beijing, Shanghai, and Shenzhen in Guangdong province in a low-key manner, according to a report by China Daily, which cited sources […]

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Retail Asia16/01/2024

eBay has agreed to pay a $3 million penalty following a harassment campaign conducted by its employees involving the sending of live cockroaches to a Massachusetts couple. The U.S. Justice Department announced the fine last Thursday, attributing responsibility to eBay for the harassment campaign its employees executed against David and Ina Steiner, in 2019. This […]

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Retail Asia18/12/2023

Chinese technology giant Alibaba Group Holding has invested another US$634 million in its e-commerce subsidiary Lazada amid intensifying competition. The injection – the group’s third this year – takes its investment in Lazada to more than $1.8 billion. Since taking the controlling stake in 2016, Alibaba has poured about $7.4 million into the Singapore-based e-commerce unit. This […]

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Retail Asia11/12/2023

Indonesia’s biggest tech firm GoTo Gojek Tokopedia said on Friday it was in talks with short video app TikTok over a potential e-commerce partnership in the Southeast Asian country. No final deal has been reached, GoTo added in a statement. The company also said the discussions did not include a takeover plan or any sale […]

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Retail Asia04/12/2023

India-based eyewear retailer Lenskart plans to open stores in Thailand and the Philippines to expand in Southeast Asia. “We’re looking at opening 300 to 400 stores in southeast Asia in the next two years. Initially, we go slow, but we like to go deep,” Peyush Bansal, Lenskart cofounder and CEO said. “We’ve been in Singapore […]

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Retail Asia30/11/2023

Short video app TikTok is in the process of obtaining an e-commerce permit from Indonesia’s government, state news agency Antara reported, citing the deputy trade minister. In September, Indonesia banned e-commerce transactions on social media, a major blow for TikTok, which had pledged to invest billions of dollars in Southeast Asia, including Indonesia, the region’s […]

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Retail Asia29/11/2023

Chinese payments group Alipay plans to sell its 3.4 per cent stake in Indian food delivery giant Zomato for nearly $400 million through block deals on Indian stock exchanges, according to three sources and a Reuters review of the deal’s term sheet. Alipay, owned by Ant Group, will offload its entire 3.44 per cent stake […]

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Retail Asia23/11/2023

More than half of Vietnam’s population shopped online last year as both supply and demand in the e-commerce sector continue to boom. Dang Anh Dung, deputy CEO of Lazada Vietnam, told the forum on e-commerce on Tuesday that a report by Google and Temaske & Bain said around 57 million Vietnamese made online purchases last […]

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Retail Asia20/11/2023

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Alibaba Group saw its revenue increase 9 percent year over year to US$30.81 billion for the quarter ended September 30. The company’s operating income soared 34 percent to $4.603 billion, with adjusted EBITA up 18 percent to $5.872 billion. Taobao and Tmall Group’s revenue was up 4 percent to $13.385 billion, as content and price-competitive […]

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Retail Asia14/11/2023

TikTok has been talking with Indonesian e-commerce companies about possible partnerships, an Indonesian minister said on Monday, a month after Southeast Asia’s largest economy banned online shopping on social media platforms. TikTok has spoken with five companies including GoTo’s e-commerce unit Tokopedia, Bukalapak.com and Blibli, according to Teten Masduki, minister for small-medium enterprises (SMEs). “Some […]

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Retail Asia11/10/2023

Lazada Group and the Seoul Business Agency (SBA) have signed a Memorandum of Understanding to allow South Korean SMEs to expand into the Southeast Asia market. The SBA will take the lead in promoting Lazada as a prominent Southeast Asian e-commerce marketplace destination among SMEs in Seoul under the terms of this partnership. The collaboration […]

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