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Retail Asia21/09/2020

Apple India will open its online store in India on September 23, representing the tech giant’s first formal step into direct retailing in the world’s second-most populous country. In a statement, the US company said the online Apple Store would offer a full product range and ship nationwide along with finance and a level of […]

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Retail Asia16/09/2020

While its name might be synonymous with low-cost fitness trackers for many consumers around the world, Fitbit has faced quite the uphill battle trying to gain a foothold in the fast-growing smartwatch market over the last few years. Although the company’s rookie Apple Watch-rivaling effort was released all the way back in 2017 (to tepid reviews […]

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Retail Asia16/09/2020

The Chinese technology conglomerate is pushing ahead with global expansion plans, despite recent app bans in India and the United States. Tencent is planning to open a new office in Singapore, which will be its regional hub for Southeast Asia, where it also has offices in Malaysia, Indonesia, and Thailand, the company said in a […]

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Retail Asia15/09/2020

Back in July, we told you that Japan’s SoftBank was talking to American GPU manufacturer NVIDIA about selling it ARM Holdings. The latter’s main business is the design of CPU cores such as the 64 bit Cortex-A78 CPU core. Both sides are closing in on a deal that would be valued at over $40 billion. The […]

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Retail Asia14/09/2020

Some Apple iPhone users find themselves struggling with Siri. Besides some of the usual things that we’ve brought up in the past, such as Siri’s inability to understand the questions we’ve asked her, or the incorrect answers that she comes up with (especially when they are related to an inquiry about Apple devices-a category that she should […]

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Retail Asia11/09/2020

HCMC has proposed that a subsidiary of Samsung be defined as an export processing enterprise to enjoy zero import and export duties. The city said in a recent proposal to Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc that switching the label of TV screen producer Samsung Electronics HCMC CE Complex (SEHC) from a manufacturing enterprise to an […]

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Retail Asia11/09/2020

Pham Van Tam, the founder of electronics firm Asanzo, has set up the Winsan Group, a $43 million enterprise to invest in electronics, dental, and food ventures. Tam recently announced a new role as chairman of the Winsan Group Investment Joint Stock Company, which will function as a financial investment company for small and medium […]

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Retail Asia10/09/2020

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Priced at $2,000 in the US, the 5G-enabled Galaxy Z Fold 2 is not what we’d call widely accessible to the masses. But even though 2020 has been a tough year for high-end, high-priced smartphones in general and Samsung flagships in particular, this foldable beaut is sure shaping up to be a smash hit, at least by early […]

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Retail Asia09/09/2020

Apple’s most ambitious store project yet will open its doors to the public this Thursday, a round structure that appears to float on Singapore’s harbor. The spherical shaped store features an all-glass dome structure above the waterline, with 114 panes of glass, affording 360-degree panoramic views of the city. Inspired by the Pantheon in Rome, […]

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Retail Asia01/09/2020

Back in 2014-2015, Japan Display (JDI) was considered to be Apple’s major smartphone display supplier. At that time, the iPhone 6 and the iPhone 6 Plus were bringing larger-sized LCD screens to iPhone users. The original 3.5-inch display found on the first iPhone models rose to 4-inches with the iPhone 5 and to 4.7-inches on the iPhone 6. The iPhone 6 Plus carries a […]

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Retail Asia01/09/2020

Apple Singapore’s new ‘floating store’ built in the harbor in front of the Marina Bay Sands integrated resort has not yet opened – but already it has taken over social media. Designed by London-based Foster + Partners architecture studio, the store is Apple’s first in the world built with a spherical shape and appears to […]

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Retail Asia28/08/2020

Tech giant Apple will launch an e-commerce store in India next month, according to a report by Bloomberg News. The firm will be timing its launch to begin trading in time for India’s busiest spending season, the Diwali festival. It follows CEO Tim Cook’s statement several months ago that Apple will start retailing within the […]

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Retail Asia27/08/2020

Samsung Electronics remained the top smartphone vendor in the second quarter of the year despite suffering a sharp decline in sales. Samsung sold 54.75 million smartphones in the April-June period to take an 18.6-per-cent market share, according to market researcher Gartner. Its second-quarter sales suffered a 27.1-per-cent year-on-year decline, the largest drop among the top […]

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Retail Asia27/08/2020

The banker replaces Chew Show Zi, who will become president of Xiaomi’s international operations. Chinese consumer electronics company Xiaomi has hired Alain Lam as its new chief financial officer, according to people familiar with the matter. Lam was previously the head of technology for Credit Suisse’s investment banking and capital markets group in Asia Pacific. He has […]

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Retail Asia27/08/2020

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Besides delaying the release of the 5G Apple iPhone 12 family, COVID-19 has also interfered with Apple’s retail stores. Back in January, Apple started closing retail locations in China. By the following month, all 42 Apple Stores in the country were closed only to reopen a month later. But as the virus made it’s way west, Apple shut all of its […]

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Retail Asia24/08/2020

The banker’s best-loved gadget may be making a return from the dead – thanks in part to the pandemic sending millions of workers into work-from-home arrangements. Blackberry smartphones were phased out at banks years ago – Credit Suisse’s finance chief David Mathers was openly unhappy about his boss, Tidjane Thiam, taking his away in 2017. The brand has been […]

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Retail Asia24/08/2020

If you own a Samsung phone and have misplaced the device, the Find My Mobile feature will help you get back together with the handset. And you can even unlock your device with Find My Mobile even if you’ve forgotten your password, PIN, or pattern. The missing device must be signed in to your Samsung account. But […]

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Retail Asia21/08/2020

August 2nd, 2018 was a red-letter day for Apple. The little company that was founded by Steve Wosniak and Steve Jobs in April 1976, was worth $1 trillion making it the first public company in the U.S. to hit that figure. And now here we are again, two iPhone cycles later, and the company has become […]

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Retail Asia20/08/2020

Samsung has rebutted reports it plans to shift part of its smartphone production in Vietnam to India, saying the former will continue to be the group’s major manufacturing base. Samsung Vietnam said in a statement that its smartphone manufacturing factories in the northern provinces of Bac Ninh and Thai Nguyen are operating as usual. Vietnam […]

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Retail Asia20/08/2020

Huawei has confirmed that its devices will continue to receive software and security updates, reports Huawei Central. Last year, Google stopped providing non-public software to the company to comply with a US blacklist. The company was provided a temporary relief which allowed it to provide software updates to its existing phones. Handsets launched after the trade ban come […]

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