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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 )
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Retail Asia27/12/2021

Google Maps has a location-sharing feature that allows you to share your location with others. Users can set a time limit that shuts down this peek at your current location after the set time period has been reached. Or, the user can decide to keep this information available by choosing the setting that shares the […]

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Retail Asia27/12/2021

Microsoft Corp said on Friday it will not participate in person at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) 2022 in Las Vegas, joining a list of companies opting not to have a physical presence at next month’s event on concerns over the rapid spread of the Omicron COVID-19 variant. The U.S. software giant added that it […]

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Retail Asia24/12/2021

Online casinos have swept through the world like a storm, and Singapore has been no exception. The state has seen a huge influx of online casino sites in recent years, and many of them come with brand-new and exciting features. Even though officially online gambling is banned in Singapore, offshore casinos offer their services to […]

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Retail Asia24/12/2021

The Retail News Asia team wishes you peace, joy and successes throughout the coming year. Thank you for your continued support and involvement. We look forward to hearing from you in the years to come.

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Retail Asia24/12/2021

Vietnam is set to commercially launch 5G mobile services next year as it seeks to increase the number of internet users by reducing the number of 2G smartphones to under 5 percent. The Ministry of Information and Communications reported at a meeting Wednesday that the service will be operated with made-in-Vietnam devices. The country aims […]

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Retail Asia24/12/2021

German food delivery group Delivery Hero said on Wednesday it would scale down its Foodpanda operations in Germany and sell the subsidiary’s Japan unit, citing increased competition and labor shortages. Delivery Hero said Foodpanda would exit Cologne, Duesseldorf, Frankfurt, Hamburg, Munich, and Stuttgart, though it had only introduced the brand in Cologne, Duesseldorf, and Stuttgart […]

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Retail Asia24/12/2021

A tweet sent by an organized group of Apple employees has announced a walkout for Christmas Eve. The tweet, sent under an account called Apple Together, reads, “Calling all Apple workers and patrons! Tomorrow, December 24th, 2021, Apple workers are staging a walkout/callout to demand better working conditions. The group’s members work in retail, corporate, and […]

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Retail Asia23/12/2021

TikTok was the most visited website this year, according to the 2021 Cloudflare domain ranking, part of its Cloudflare Radar service. After August 10, TikTok became the leading website for most of the days of 2021, especially in October and November. Here is the ranking of the 10 domains, which we have visited most in 2021: […]

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Retail Asia23/12/2021

Apple is testing out a new expansion in its iPhone 13 production near Chennai, India, in a trial contract with a Foxconn plant located in the area. Apple first contracted the Foxconn plant to produce the iPhone 12 5G, but recently a long-winded bout of food poisoning and ongoing protests brought about a full shutdown of the plant (ordered by Foxconn […]

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Retail Asia23/12/2021

Sportswear maker Nike is confident the resumption in production in Vietnam will boost the company’s future recovery. “Compared to ninety days ago, we are increasingly confident supply will normalize heading into fiscal 2023” as all factories in Vietnam were operational and production was at about 80 percent of what it was before the closures, finance […]

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Retail Asia23/12/2021

Container shipping giant Maersk on Wednesday agreed to buy Hong Kong-based LF Logistics for $3.6 billion in an all-cash deal, as it seeks to expand beyond its core ocean freight business. The deal is one of the group’s largest takeovers to date and follows a series of acquisitions including e-commerce firms, a freight forwarder specialising […]

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Retail Asia23/12/2021

Singtel and Ericsson have made a technology breakthrough in 5G standalone (SA) New Radio-Dual Connectivity (NR-DC), becoming the first in Southeast Asia to reach download speeds of 5.4Gbps by aggregating Singtel’s spectrum holdings across mid-band spectrum 3.5GHz and 28GHz mmWave. This milestone was achieved in a demo with Ericsson’s 5G radio access network products and […]

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Retail Asia23/12/2021

Goodyear has introduced a new set of tires called the ElectricDrive GT which is the first replacement tires for the North American market, designed specifically for EVs particularly for the Model Y. The ElectricDrive GT is a high-performance, all-season tire which has been designed to last long and provide ride quality that one expects with […]

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Retail Asia23/12/2021

According to data issued by the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI), total wireless subscribers reached 1,166.30 million at the end of October 2021, with the urban areas accounting for 637.44 million and rural areas totaling 528.86 million. As on 31 October, 2021, private access service providers held 89.99% market share of wireless subscribers, with […]

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Retail Asia22/12/2021

Indian on-demand grocery-delivery service, Zepto, has bagged US$100 million during its Series-C funding, taking its value to US$570 million within five months of its launch. Led by Y Combinator’s Continuity Fund, the round included investors Nexus, Breyer Capital, Global Founders Capital and Glade Brook, among others. The Series-C funding follows Zepto’s earlier funding round in […]

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Retail Asia22/12/2021

Boxed wine is one of Australia’s most extraordinary contributions to the wine industry, also known as cardboardeaux, bag-in-box (BiB), or more commonly. Australian winemaker Thomas Angove patented the design for a one-gallon polyethylene bladder in a cardboard box in 1965, inspired by the ancient method of storing wine in goat skins. The first model required […]

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Retail Asia22/12/2021

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Cryptocurrency mining app Pi Network has disappeared from Google Play Store for Android devices, making investors concerned about the future of the project. “I cannot download the app. I am worried all my mining efforts up until now would be thrown away,” said Le Tu in the southern province of Dong Nai. The Pi Network […]

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Retail Asia22/12/2021

T-Mobile released its 2021 Scams and Robocalls report, and it says that its Scam Shield service managed to block 21 billion scam calls, which translates to 700 calls identified or blocked every second. The gathered data by T-Mobile shows an over 116% increase in scam call attempts from 2020. According to the T-Mobile scam call report, […]

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Retail Asia22/12/2021

Skechers parent, The Comfort Technology Company, has transitioned the operations of the footwear brand in the Philippines from its third-party distributor, Trendworks International, to Skechers USA Philippines. The company said the move is to maximize the brand’s growth in the region. Trendworks International will continue to sell Skechers products through the end of this year. […]

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Retail Asia22/12/2021

Airasia Philippines has recorded its best performance yet since the Covid-19 pandemic hit in 2020, its officials said yesterday. Topping the list of AirAsia’s most preferred domestic flights within the peak Christmas travel period between December 20 to January 05 are Manila to Caticlan with 24 percent of total passenger booking, Manila to Tacloban with 15 percent, and Cebu to Manila with 14 percent. The recently […]

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