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Retail Asia20/12/2021

A few days after Google announced that its YouTube TV service lost all Disney-owned channels, the search giant is back with another statement that confirms it has reached an agreement with Disney to return its content to YouTube TV. Obviously, that means that the YouTube TV price will return to $65 for all subscribers. Google also […]

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Retail Asia20/12/2021

Thailand Office of The National Broadcasting and Telecommunications Commission (NBTC), Siriraj Hospital, and Huawei Technologies (Thailand) Co., Ltd. jointly launched the “Siriraj World Class 5G Smart Hospital.” Thailand General Prayut Chan-o-cha, Prime Minister and Minister of Defence, presided over the inauguration ceremony alongside Chaiwut Thanakamanusorn, Minister of Digital Economy and Society, Prof. Dr. Prasit Watanapa, […]

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Retail Asia20/12/2021

China Mobile International Limited (CMI) announced that construction of the China Mobile Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area Hong Kong Fo Tan Data Center (Fo Tan Data Center) is now underway. Being built by CMI in Fo Tan, Hong Kong, with the Mainland as the hinterland, the new facility is expected to be operational in 2025. […]

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Retail Asia20/12/2021

SLA Digital has announced a new partnership with Unitel Group, a Mongolian telecommunications company, with Unitel naming SLA Digital as their managed service provider for carrier billing. As part of the relationship, SLA Digital will also be able to offer digital content providers access to Unitel’s other payment options including IPTV payments, Toki E-Wallet and […]

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Retail Asia20/12/2021

China’s Alibaba has told its investors that overseas e-commerce would be a key focus as it looks for new sources of growth after a difficult year at home. Earlier this month, Alibaba Group Holding restructured its e-commerce business into separate China and international divisions, with the latter to be led by Jiang Fan, head of Alibaba’s flagship […]

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Retail Asia19/12/2021

Kido Group-owned gelato and tea chain, Chuk Chuk, has joined hands with Central Retail to roll out between 300 and 400 stores in Go! malls and Tops Market supermarkets in Vietnam, as well as eyeing international expansion. Chuk Chuk said it will open 10 stores across Central Retail’s shopping malls ahead of February. Under the […]

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Retail Asia17/12/2021

The ranking of businesses in Vietnam’s map of e-commerce changed in the second quarter of 2021, with the volume of Google searches for essential online stores skyrocketing, according to an iPrice Group study. The study showed online groceries were the only category to maintain steady and consistent growth since the beginning of the pandemic. Google […]

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Retail Asia17/12/2021

The Swiss insurer is buying an Estonian start-up for conversational artificial intelligence. The move is a bid to improve the digital capabilities of its customer services. The Zurich-based insurer it is buying Alphachat, a four-year-old Tallinn-based company with a messaging automation product that understands natural language, authenticates users, and provides personalized responses, it said in a statement on Thursday. […]

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Retail Asia17/12/2021

UBS is reportedly in talks with insurance giant China Life to form an asset management joint venture. UBS is in discussions with China Life to form an asset management joint venture in the mainland, according to a report citing unnamed sources. The two have signed a memorandum of understanding and a formal launch will be […]

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Retail Asia17/12/2021

Vietnam Airlines and Air Lease Corporation have agreed on a leasing discount exceeding $1 billion for 18 aircraft while the former face financial challenges amid the pandemic. U.S.-based ALC, one of the biggest aircraft leasers in the world with 450 jets, will reduce leasing charges by $420 million for the rest of the contract duration […]

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Retail Asia17/12/2021

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Meta and Ray-Ban’s Stories glasses just received their latest software update, which broadens up the voice capabilities of their product. The newest Stories glasses update enables you to control them with your voice. You can tell the built-in voice assistant to send texts and make calls using Messenger. The Ray-Ban Stories assistant can now also […]

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Retail Asia17/12/2021

The Delhi government has announced that it will deregister all diesel vehicles that will complete 10 years on January 1, 2022. Owners of said vehicles will be given a No Objection Certificate (NOC) which will allow them to re-register the vehicle in other places. The Delhi government has taken this decision in compliance with the […]

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Retail Asia17/12/2021

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Continuing to celebrate its separation from Huawei, which allows it to install the Google version of Android on its phones, Honor today unveiled the X30 handset. The device sports a 6.81-inch LCD display with a resolution of 1080 x 2388, and thin side bezels that weigh in at 1.05mm. The screen refreshes 120 times each second for […]

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Retail Asia17/12/2021

In an internal notice sent to its stores, as reported by the T-Mo Report, T-Mobile informs its employees of a new, more secure method of authorizing SIM changes. The customer will now be required to provide SMS verification when requesting SIM changes, such as transferring a number to a new SIM. The alternative is the change […]

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Retail Asia17/12/2021

Rice exporters will have their licenses canceled if they fail to ship for a long time. Out of 205 businesses with export licenses, 39 have not exported the grain since December 2019. The Ministry of Industry and Trade said: “Many traders have no rice market or capacity to export. This along with the impact of […]

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Retail Asia16/12/2021

Almost two years have passed since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, but that does not mean that things have cooled off. That is why companies, including those in the tech industry, are still practicing the work-from-home approach when it comes to their employees. It seems, though, that some of the major players in the […]

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Retail Asia16/12/2021

If you’re a new Google Fi subscriber, you’re probably not aware that the MVNO typically offers gifts to its customers at the end of the year. Although this time around the rewards isn’t as exciting as it was in the previous years, you’ll still get something. Also, it’s always the gesture that counts, not the value […]

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Retail Asia16/12/2021

When Apple released iOS and iPadOS 15 three months ago, iPhone and iPad users with vision problems were upset. The update took away several commands that allowed Siri to help those with poor vision play their voicemail, recite their call history list, send an email, and more. This was a slap in the face to iPhone and […]

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Retail Asia16/12/2021

With the iOS 15.2 update, iOS now has the ability to erase and reset a locked iOS device without connecting it to a computer. To reset a locked Apple iPhone or iPad before iOS 15.2, you had to connect it to a Mac or PC first. After you had connected the device, you had to […]

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Retail Asia16/12/2021

The quantity of Cambodian rice, cashew nuts, maize, green beans, and soya beans imported by Vietnam in the first 11 months of this year rose 3-4 times year on year. Cambodia exported 912,000 tons of cashew nuts, over 134,000 tons of maize, some 26,000 tons of green beans, 66,200 tons of soya beans, and more […]

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