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16/05/2024 The TikTok ban could hurt small businesses that prosper thanks to mobile users ( General )
16/05/2024 WhatsApp could add a new sticker-related feature very soon ( General )
15/05/2024 Facebook and Instagram experiencing outages along the East and West Coasts of the U.S. ( General )
14/05/2024 Qantas to launch new route from Manila to Brisbane ( General )
13/05/2024 Meta expands paid verification service for businesses ( General )
10/05/2024 For complex iPhone AI tasks, Apple will use cloud-based servers running M-series chips ( Electronics )
10/05/2024 Samsung plans to add $1B to Vietnam investment annually ( Electronics )
08/05/2024 Digital content exporters open foreign offices to avoid tax ( General )
06/05/2024 WhatsApp’s new status update tray with previews is rolling out more widely in beta ( General )
02/05/2024 A Deep Dive into Grade A Buildings in Hong Kong ( General )
02/05/2024 Shopee races past other e-commerce rivals ( E-Tailing )
30/04/2024 TikTok, Facebook, and other foreign service providers pay $575M in taxes ( General )
29/04/2024 Sacombank assures no loss on $141M loan to Bamboo Airways ( General )

Retail Asia07/02/2022

Toshiba Corp said on Friday it will invest about 125 billion yen ($1.09 billion) to more than double the production of power management semiconductors, aiming to catch up with power chip giants such as Infineon Technologies AG. The Japanese industrial conglomerate will build a cutting-edge 300-millimeter fabrication plant in central Japan for power management chips, […]

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Retail Asia07/02/2022

A tweet from Google Chrome designer Elvin Hu reveals that for the first time in eight years, Google is changing Chrome’s icon. The new look debuted with the update to the Chrome Canary app which is an experimental and unstable version of the browser used by developers and early adopters. Other versions of Chrome that […]

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Retail Asia07/02/2022

Some changes are rolling out to the Google Messages app and it appears that hamburger is back on the menu. Or perhaps we should say that the hamburger menu is back. The redesign has surfaced for some who are using the beta version of the Messages app and it replaces the three-dot menu in the […]

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Retail Asia07/02/2022

Auto technology supplier Aptiv PLC and Volkswagen AG’s Audi brand are investing a combined $285 million in vehicle software company TTTech Auto, giving the Austrian firm a valuation of $1 billion, the companies said. TTTech Auto designs software that auto manufacturers can use to manage data flowing from sensors and safety systems used to automate […]

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Retail Asia07/02/2022

Tesl is recalling more than 817,000 vehicles in the United States because an audible alert may not activate when a vehicle starts and the driver has not buckled the seat belt, a U.S. auto safety regulator said. The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) said on Thursday the vehicles, 2021-2022 Model S and Model X, […]

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Retail Asia04/02/2022

In an Australian-first, KFC has enlisted a drone delivery company to bring Zingers and other fried faves to homes and workplaces in the Logan area between Brisbane and the Gold Coast. Wing, owned by Google parent Alphabet, launched in Canberra in 2019 in a world-first, and in Logan the following year. Since then, suburbs within […]

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Retail Asia04/02/2022

The Swiss Bitcoin Association recommends the first technical standards for simplified payment verification (SPV) using digital currencies, eliminating the need to download entire the blockchain for transactions. Switzerland’s Bitcoin SV Technical Standards Committee today recommended its first digital currency standard for simplified payment verification (SPV), enabling transactions to occur without having to download the entire blockchain. This standardized […]

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Retail Asia04/02/2022

A French brewer has started using algae with a naturally-occurring pigment to turn their beer blue. The beer, with the brand name “Line”, is the result of a tie-up between a firm that wants to popularise the algae as a dietary supplement, and a nearby craft brewery that was looking for a way to make its beverages more distinctive. […]

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Retail Asia04/02/2022

A bridge too far? In Rotterdam a bridge is set to be demolished so that Amazon founder Jeff Bezos’ ship superyacht has free passage. What the mountain chalet is to the merely well-to-do, the superyacht is to billionaires. Sales of extra-large luxury yachts have risen by 77 percent in 2021 compared to the previous year, […]

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Retail Asia04/02/2022

Sneaker giant Nike sued online reseller StockX in New York federal court on Thursday for selling unauthorized images of Nike shoes, marking the latest lawsuit over digital assets known as non-fungible tokens. Nike said StockX’s NFTs infringe its trademarks and are likely to confuse consumers. Its lawsuit asked for unspecified money damages and an order […]

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Retail Asia04/02/2022

Facebook’s parent company Meta is currently undergoing one of the biggest stock price drops in the company’s history. Meta’s shares plummeted by more than 23% over the past 24 hours—which will ultimately result in Meta’s market cap crashing down by $210 billion, to about $689 billion. This comes as a direct result of Mark Zuckerberg’s […]

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Retail Asia04/02/2022

Food and beverage establishments are working through Tet or abbreviating their holidays to make up for a year of poor business due to the Covid-19 pandemic. Crab restaurant chain Vua Cua is delivering through the holidays, and some of its outlets closed for two days out of the nine. “I believe that many people will […]

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Retail Asia04/02/2022

Yesterday we told you that Facebook parent Meta said that Apple’s App Tracking Transparency (ATT) feature, which allows iOS users to opt-out of being tracked for the purposes of receiving custom online ads, will cost Meta $10 billion in revenue this year. That bit of news, along with Meta announcing that it will fall short of […]

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Retail Asia03/02/2022

Following the integration of ID cards and driver’s licenses into Apple Wallet, it looks that the next thing to find its way into Apple Wallet will be workplace authorization cards. Customers and employees who visit the 7 World Trade Center will now be able to use an employee badge stored in their Apple Wallet app […]

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Retail Asia03/02/2022

Apple News has begun sending out its first daily local newsletter, and the first to receive its own Apple News bulletin is the San Francisco Bay Area. Up until now, Apple News offered regional news but didn’t have a dedicated newsletter. The bulletin includes a variety of local news across topics such as sports, politics, and dining. […]

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Retail Asia03/02/2022

Google’s VPN feature, part of the Google One service, just received three new features on Android. The new features are: Safe Disconnect enables you to use the internet only when the VPN is active. App Bypass allows you to choose specific apps to use a standard connection rather than the VPN. Snooze allows you to disable your […]

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Retail Asia03/02/2022

According to a new leak, Instagram could be working on allowing users to create longer Reels than is currently possible. Alessandro Paluzzi, a popular tipster and reverse engineer on Twitter who has released many a juicy preview of upcoming app updates, has discovered that the Meta-owned platform is preparing to introduce a 90-second limit on Instagram Reels, […]

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Retail Asia03/02/2022

Singtel will launch the first Microsoft Azure Edge Zones integrated with Singtel’s 5G network, delivering multi-access edge compute (MEC) for enterprises in Asia. The solution combines the speed, hyperconnectivity, and high bandwidth of Singtel’s 5G network with Microsoft Azure services, enabling developers to deploy and manage mission-critical applications that require high throughput and low latency. […]

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Retail Asia03/02/2022

UBS Europe is adding a senior client advisor from Deutsche Bank to its wealth management team in Hamburg, catering to its growing client base there. Switzerland’s biggest bank is hiring Joerg Wilke as a senior client advisor for the rich and super-rich based in Hamburg, effective immediately, according to an article in Private Banking Magazin. Wilke, who advised high-net-worth […]

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Retail Asia02/02/2022

Switzerland’s biggest bank posts its best results in 15 years and lays down new environment, social, and governance goals. UBS reports net profit for the fourth quarter of $1.3 billion, up 17 percent from the same quarter in the previous year, the bank says in its earnings report Tuesday. Results were supported by favorable market conditions, enabling […]

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