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24/04/2024 Puma to launch compostable shoes after a two-year pilot project ( Fashion )
24/04/2024 7-Eleven eyes 100,000 stores globally by 2030 ( General )
24/04/2024 Vietnam tops Southeast Asia in number of Apple suppliers ( Electronics )
24/04/2024 FPT and Nvidia to build $200M AI factory in Vietnam ( Electronics )
23/04/2024 Google Meet now lets users make annotations during presentations ( General )
22/04/2024 WhatsApp testing scheduling feature for easier event management in Communities ( General )
22/04/2024 EU set to approve Apple’s plan to open its NFC technology for rivals ( Electronics )
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 )

Retail Asia24/04/2024

Alternative payments were the most preferred payment method for e-commerce purchases in Hong Kong last year, accounting for 41.7 percent of the market. According to GlobalData’s 2023 Financial Services Consumer Survey, these methods were increasingly popular mainly because of their simplicity, speed, and convenience. As Chinese e-commerce sites gain popularity among Hong Kong consumers, alternative payment […]

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Retail Asia28/03/2024

Switzerland’s UBS is doubling down on Hong Kong. Today, it topped out its new office based in West Kowloon. UBS topped out its new Hong Kong office building on Wednesday. The ceremony, featured UBS group CEO Sergio Ermotti, Asia global wealth management (GWM) chair Amy Lo, GWM president Iqbal Khan and leading executives from Hong Kong property giant Sun […]

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Retail Asia27/03/2024

London-headquartered HSBC is actively exploring various opportunities to convert real-world assets into digital form. One such area is tokenized gold, which it will introduce tomorrow to its retail segment. HSBC will launch tokenized gold to its retail clients tomorrow, said Hong Kong chief digital officer Bojan Obradović during a panel at the Milken Institute Global Investor’s […]

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Retail Asia21/03/2024

Vietnam ranked third globally in cryptocurrency gains last year with US$1.18 billion in profits, according to a report from U.S. crypto data provider Chainalysis. It was behind the U.S. ($9.36 billion) and the U.K. ($1.39 billion). China and Indonesia were in fourth and fifth places with $1.15 billion and $1.06 billion. Vietnam’s crypto gains were […]

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Retail Asia19/03/2024

Last year, Google Wallet rolled out a new feature that allowed users to share boarding passes and event tickets with others via a link. This feature was designed as a convenient way to share passes with friends and family, but mostly for those who didn’t actually have the Google Wallet app installed on their devices, such […]

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Retail Asia15/03/2024

It is a year since the government and regulators forced UBS to rescue Credit Suisse. The recent news of job cuts in Asia makes it very clear what could be just around the corner for the domestic financial hubs. UBS is cutting about 70 jobs in Asia, according to various media reports on Thursday. Most […]

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Retail Asia14/03/2024

Saigon Jewelry Company gold bar price rose 0.75% to VND81.1 million ($3,283.73) per tael Thursday. Gold bar plunged 2.42% Wednesday after reaching a new historic peak of VND82.5 million. The gold ring price increased VND0.88% to VND69 million per tael on Thursday. A tael equals 37.5 grams or 1.2 ounces. Globally gold prices traded flat […]

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Retail Asia11/03/2024

Google Wallet is receiving a set of small quality of life updates designed to enhance the user experience and make it your go-to digital home for essential passes, tickets, and more. The updates include tighter integration with Gmail to eliminate the extra step of manually adding passes and movie tickets to your wallet. If you’ve […]

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Retail Asia06/03/2024

Apple Pay is now available with the VIB Mastercards, bringing to card holders an easier, safer and more secure way to pay. Each Apple Pay transaction takes a few seconds and is done in just three simple steps. Beyond that, facial recognition (FaceID) technology will enhance security and privacy for cardholders. “Now, customer can easily […]

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Retail Asia23/02/2024

IT consulting firm Adnovum has joined forces with a Swiss artificial intelligence specialist. The partners want to use the technology of the future to transform the financial sector. Adnovum and Squirro have embarked upon a strategic partnership, as we learned in a press release on Wednesday. The aim of this cooperation? To use Squirro’s artificial intelligence […]

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Retail Asia19/02/2024

Some social media users are complaining that they are unable to use contactless payment system Apple Pay to ring up a transaction using a Chase credit card. On Apple’s System Status page, it notes that Apple Pay is undergoing some maintenance at the moment and adds that some users in Maryland may have issues with the […]

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Retail Asia07/02/2024

Faced with difficulties that are expected to linger, large western banks are slashing costs by downsizing their payrolls and increasing the use of artificial intelligence. Deutsche Bank has said it is laying off 3,500 employees, or 4% of its workforce, to reduce costs by 2.5 billion euros (US$2.7 billion) a year by 2025. One of […]

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Retail Asia07/02/2024

The U.S. dollar rose against the Vietnamese dong Wednesday morning. Vietcombank sold the dollar at VND24,570, up 0.16% from Tuesday. It fell 0.40% to VND24,850 on the black market. The greenback has increased by 0.61% against the dong since the beginning of the year. Globally the dollar remained under pressure on Wednesday after retreating from […]

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Retail Asia02/02/2024

State-owned lender Vietcombank reported record pre-tax profits of VND41.2 trillion (US$1.68 billion) for 2023. Its previous highest was VND37.4 trillion a year earlier. It made the bank the most profitable in the industry by a margin of tens of trillions of dong. Profits before credit risk provisioning were worth VND45.8 trillion, a 2.2% decline. But […]

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Retail Asia31/01/2024

UBS can’t grow fast enough for newly onboarded financial investor Cevian. Meanwhile, two other major shareholders are now expressing concerns about the size of the new megabank in Switzerland. The program for integrating Credit Suisse is in place, and UBS will start acquiring the clients and legal units of the crisis-hit bank over the next […]

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Retail Asia24/01/2024

Saigon Jewelry Company gold bar price went up 0.26% to VND76.65 million ($3,113.95) per tael Wednesday morning. Gold ring price was stable at VND64.05 million per tael. A tael equals 37.5 grams or 1.2 ounces. Globally gold prices inched lower on Wednesday, as hawkish comments from Federal Reserve officials and strong U.S. data doused hopes […]

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Retail Asia15/01/2024

BridgerPay, a payment technology pioneer in the payments industry, is proud to announce its transformation into a powerful omnichannel payment operations platform, bringing unparalleled control and flexibility to businesses seeking to streamline their payment processes across all payment channels – e-commerce shops, physical stores and mobile applications. The transition to an omnichannel payment operations platform […]

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Retail Asia12/01/2024

The Securities and Exchange Commission has delivered a landmark approval of spot Bitcoin exchange-traded funds. This is a highly anticipated event that is expected to further crypto’s entry into mainstream finance. The US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has approved 11 applications for spot Bitcoin exchange-traded funds (ETF), including those from BlackRock, Ark Investments, Fidelity, Invesco and more. Since 2004, this […]

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Retail Asia11/01/2024

In a recent update, Google Wallet for Wear OS has expanded its capabilities to include support for airline boarding passes. This comes after the addition of loyalty card support back in December. Your Wear OS 3+ device will now display a new notification from the Google Wallet app on your smartwatch. This notification will inform […]

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Retail Asia08/01/2024

The State Bank of Vietnam (SBV) is considering proposals from investors to restructure the Saigon Commercial Bank (SCB), a bank experiencing financial difficulties. After SCB faced a run in October 2022, the central bank put the private lender under special control to limit negative impacts on it and credit institutions in general. Historically, several banks under special […]

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