Tag: Technology

Retail Asia22/07/2023
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Increasing workplace productivity is a typical objective shared by many business owners. We want everyone on our team to get as much done as possible while maintaining a pleasant work atmosphere since this helps us to grow our businesses. Despite having the same aim, company owners approach productivity improvement uniquely. Some may strive to conduct […]

Retail Asia08/07/2022
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The acquisition now enables NEC to expand its capacity to bring end-to-end Open RAN ecosystems, as well as system design and integration for legacy networks, to international operators. In a statement, NEC’s 5G Strategy and Business General Manager, Naohisa Matsuda said, “NEC has made a strong, public commitment to providing leadership in the rollout of […]

Retail Asia22/03/2022
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Vietnamese startups have great expectations of the blockchain technology, envisaging practical e-commerce and entertainment impacts as the country pursues digital transformation. “We dream of becoming a billion-dollar company,” said Nguyen Tuan Quynh, chairman of book distributor Saigon Books, as he talked about a new project which uses blockchain in podcast and audiobook production. He said […]

Retail Asia01/12/2021
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The reinsurer is tasking an Indian information technology company with the operation of its digital workstations. Swiss Re is extending its partnership with consultancy firm Tata Consulting Services (TCS) to manage its digital workstations. The multinational information technology services provider TCS will manage the reinsurer’s desktops and run these on Microsoft’s cloud computing service Azure. The […]

Retail Asia13/08/2021
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Nokia the City of Melbourne have conducted a trial using Nokia Scene Analytics artificial intelligence (AI) technology to develop a deeper understanding of waste disposal behaviour. This will allow the city to tackle the issue of waste dumping more efficiently keep laneways – the busy and narrow city streets and pedestrian areas – even more clean, safe and free of garbage. To decrease the frequency of waste contractor visits to busy areas, the City of Melbourne […]

Retail Asia17/06/2021
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BMW and Volkswagen have joined the Quantum technology consortium which features 10 German corporations that strive to develop quantum computing applications for vehicles. The Quantum technology and application consortium (QUTAC) will develop further the fundamentals of quantum computing and applications that could be used in the automotive space. The founding members of this consortium include […]

Retail Asia06/11/2020
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Beauty technology company Social Bella announced its first overseas expansion with the launch of the beauty e-commerce platform Sociolla in Vietnam. Demand from beauty enthusiasts in Vietnam was one of the company’s considerations, following a US$58 million funding from investors, such as Singaporean state investment fund Temasek and its private equity subsidiary Pavilion, alongside Singaporean venture capital firm […]

Retail Asia30/08/2019
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Technology adoption, contributions from fast-growing eyewear chain Zoff, and burgeoning loyalty programs for Circle K and Saint Honore have been credited with boosting Convenience Retail Asia’s half-year profit by 22.4 percent. CEO Richard Yeung said a major part of the group’s success was the effectiveness of Circle K’s online-to-offline (O2O) business model, along with lower […]

Retail Asia02/07/2019
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Chinese retailer Suning will present its latest smart technologies at this year’s CES Asia. Suning will be demonstrating its smart home appliances based on its proprietary Biu OS system, which aims to create an open platform for sharing resources across the smart home appliance industry. Products include Biu refrigerators, air conditioners, washing machines, automatic washing […]

Retail Asia19/06/2019
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ABI Research noted that of the 205 companies it surveyed for its Location Technologies Supply Chain and Ecosystem Tracker, 24% of them are currently offering solutions covering both indoor and outdoor location services. The researcher cited growing need for seamless indoor and outdoor integration and supply chain visibility forcing more companies at the lower layers […]

Retail Asia17/06/2019
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Domino’s Pizza is taking on one of its customers most common complaints, that the ordered pizza “doesn’t look like it should”, with a nationwide roll-out of its Pizza Checker technology. The technology takes the form of a camera system that grades individual pizzas on certain qualities, such as the topping volume and spread, as well […]

Retail Asia30/05/2019
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Poorly designed 5G spectrum auctions could seriously hamper the potential of the 5G era before it even begins in earnest, the GSMA has warned. A new Auction Best Practice by the industry body highlights some key concerns from recent 4G and 5G spectrum allocations, including a trend towards governments artificially inflating spectrum prices. This could […]

Retail Asia14/05/2019
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Japan’s SoftBank has announced that its joint venture HAPSMobile will invest $125 million in Google’s Project Loon to advance the use of high-altitude vehicles to carry mobile base stations. HAPSMobile, the joint venture between SoftBank and US-based unmanned aerial vehicle systems company AeroVironment, was established in 2017 to conduct network equipment research and development for the high-altitude platform station […]

Retail Asia23/04/2019
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Microsoft is making major changes to its Android launcher, many of which have been tested for about a month in the beta channel. Most of the new features and improvements are cosmetic, but there are some important under the hood enhancements included as well. Microsoft Launcher version 5.3 comes with a completely redesigned Time/Weather widget, which […]

Retail Asia03/04/2019
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Capillary Technologies, a leading provider of CRM and digital retail solutions, announced results for 2018 that show significant year-over-year business momentum. The company highlighted many significant developments that contributed to its most successful year since its entry into Singapore in 2012. In 2018, the company posted a record 100% growth from sales of its omnichannel […]


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