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26/04/2024 Changi Airport Group awards OUE tender for lease and development of new hotel at Changi Airport Terminal 2 ( General )
26/04/2024 Korean Air to launch new route to Macau ( General )
26/04/2024 WhatsApp is working on an option to stop notifications when someone reacts to your status updates ( General )
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 )

Retail Asia30/03/2021

HBO Max has big plans for 2021, as the streaming giant is ready to implement lots of major enhancements to its service. One of the first important changes coming to HBO Max this week is aimed at visually impaired users. Starting this week, HBO Max will roll out newly 1,500 hours of audio described content on […]

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Retail Asia30/03/2021

Department store sales jumped 40 percent in February against a year-ago period in the biggest year-on-year gain since the data became available from 2005 to suggest a rebound in private consumption in South Korea. According to the Ministry of Strategy and Finance’s monthly economic review, department store sales jumped 39.5 percent on year in February, […]

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Retail Asia30/03/2021

Cebu Air the listed operator of budget carrier Cebu Pacific, announced on Monday that 328.95 million of its convertible preferred shares with a par value of P1 per share are now ready to be traded on the main board of the Philippine Stock Exchange (PSE). “Despite the numerous challenges that airlines are currently facing, Cebu […]

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Retail Asia30/03/2021

After a serious data privacy scandal that happened on Facebook a few years ago, almost everybody knows about the security issues with this social network. Experts say that the company has a long track record of incidents that prove inadequate measures for users’ data protection. Repeated failures make many of us worried about the safety […]

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Retail Asia30/03/2021

As Australia’s COVID-19 vaccine roll-out strategy ramps up across the nation, 70% of casual workers have indicated that they would be more likely to receive the vaccine if it was recommended by their employer. The research by Humanforce, a provider of intelligent workforce management solutions, also revealed that the vast majority of casual workers – […]

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Retail Asia29/03/2021

British designer Burberry is the first luxury brand to be targeted in China in a backlash against western sanctions imposed over alleged human rights abuses in the Xinjiang region, following on from retailers including H&M and Nike that were boycotted by Chinese shoppers this week after they voiced concerns about cotton sourced from the Chinese region, one […]

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Retail Asia29/03/2021

As part of a three-year strategic plan to focus its four largest brands — Old Navy, Gap, Banana Republic and Athleta — Gap Inc. said it will sell its children’s business to investment firm Go Global Retail on Thursday. Gap bought Janie and Jack in 2019 for $35 million from Gymboree Group Inc. It has a […]

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Retail Asia29/03/2021

VICTORIA’S Secret owner L Brands raised its current-quarter profit forecast for the second time this month as customers use stimulus checks to buy everything from scented candles to lingerie, sending its shares to a three-year high. The company on Friday also cited the unusual shifts in spending patterns and relaxation of COVID-19 restrictions for the upbeat […]

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Retail Asia29/03/2021

H&M, Burberry, Nike and Adidas and other western brands have been hit by consumer boycotts in China since last week over comments about their sourcing of cotton in Xinjiang. The growing rift comes as the United States and other Western governments increase pressure on China over suspected human rights abuses in the western region. Chinese […]

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Retail Asia29/03/2021

Just a few days ago, we told you that Google had added a new collection of photos for the Memories feature on the Google Photo app. These photographs all included images of beer; beer in glasses, beer in cans, beer in bottles and more. The photos show up in a collection called “Cheers.” The latest Memories collection […]

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Retail Asia29/03/2021

Mercedes-Benz has entered into a green power supply contract with energy supplier Enovos and the Norwegian energy producer Statkraft. This means that from 2022 onwards, the company will purchase electricity in Germany which comes exclusively from renewable sources. A green power supply contract ensures the purchase of electricity from renewable energy sources at all times. […]

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Retail Asia29/03/2021

Hanoi market authorities found more than 2,000 fake Samsung power banks in a store in Thanh Tri District on Friday. They all had ‘20+ Samsung’ printed on the surface, and 836 said made in China while the rest had no indication of origin. Hoang Dai Nghia, head of the Hanoi Market Surveillance Department’s Team 1, […]

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Retail Asia29/03/2021

Citi will hire up to 1,700 for its Hong Kong unit, partly in anticipation of the upcoming Greater Bay Area opportunities. Citi will add 1,500 to 1,700 in Hong Kong, according to a report citing Hong Kong and Macau chief executive Angel Ng Yin-yee. The expansion follows a 44 percent surge from net new money in Hong Kong and […]

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Retail Asia26/03/2021

Popeyes has its sights set on China. On Monday, the American fried chicken chain officially announced that it would open its first China-based store right here in Shanghai sometime next year. But that’s just the beginning. Popeyes has big plans to become China’s most popular fried chicken joint. No easy feat considering KFC – the […]

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Retail Asia26/03/2021

DHL has announced that it is expanding its green fleet in the US with the help of EV maker Lightning eMotors. It will acquire 89 more Lighting eMotors this year after a successful pilot run of nine EV vans. The DHL Green Fleet expansion is part of a larger sustainability roadmap launched by the DHL […]

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Retail Asia26/03/2021

The Harley-Davidson Pan America has started rolling off the production line from Harley’s York, Pennsylvania Vehicle Operations Plant. And it’s soon to make its way not just across the Atlantic to Europe, but to India and the rest of Asia as well. Back in the US, the action around the Pan America is heating up. A new […]

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Retail Asia26/03/2021

Post drafts have been part of Instagram for years, but the useful feature has never made its way to the app’s popular Stories section. Soon that will change, as Instagram itself announced on rival platform Twitter. Instead of being forced to choose between posting Stories immediately or saving them to your device for later, an upcoming Instagram […]

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Retail Asia26/03/2021

Disney+, which as of this month has 100 million subscribers, is nothing short of a global phenomenon thanks to its huge catalog of Disney, Marvel, Pixar, Star Wars, and National Geographic content. That catalog keeps growing in size, though, so Disney+ has decided that now’s the right time to raise its prices in the United States, after […]

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Retail Asia26/03/2021

Remember that controversial switch from Favorites to Likes on Twitter in 2015? Well, soon the social media platform could introduce another big change to the way people interact with Tweets, and this time it’ll to take some inspiration from Facebook. Twitter is considering the introduction of emoji-style reactions to Tweets. Users can only ‘heart’ tweets at […]

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Retail Asia26/03/2021

Some Instagram users have caught on lately that parent company Facebook had something up its sleeve when they started seeing a strange notification in their feed titled “preparing for life after prison with community support.” It turns out Facebook has been experimenting with a brand new app concept called Re-Entry, whose sole purpose is to facilitate […]

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