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24/04/2024 Puma to launch compostable shoes after a two-year pilot project ( Fashion )
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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 )
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 )
16/04/2024 Google Chat working on adding group audio and video call function within Gmail Spaces ( General )
15/04/2024 Tim Cook arrives in Vietnam ( Electronics )
15/04/2024 Vietravel Airlines reports first profits in 3 years ( General )

Retail Asia22/04/2020

CBD has come a long way since it was taken off the list of schedule 1 drugs a few years ago. It’s available online everywhere and in stores and dispensaries across the nation. It’s not only available in pharmacies like CVS and Walmart, but you can even buy it in stores like Abercrombie & Fitch […]

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Retail Asia21/04/2020

With the coronavirus pandemic continuing to spread relentlessly around the globe, “untact,” or non-contact services are emerging as a new trend, and demand for service robots to replace humans is also growing. The state-run Korea Trade-Investment Promotion Agency (Kotra) says interest in service robots has soared since they were employed in public-sanitation and service businesses […]

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Retail Asia21/04/2020

The current global crisis has led to an increase in communication services usage, but it looks like they’re able to cope with the demand for the time being. Even though it seems that there’s enough bandwidth to accommodate the spike in usage, many of these services require improvements. WhatsApp is in the process of upgrading its […]

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Retail Asia21/04/2020

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With sales decimated by the coronavirus crisis, and with little support coming from landlords, some 20,400 Hong Kong retail stores will close by year-end, according to research from the HKRMA. A study conducted amongst 152 retailers ranging from SMEs through to large chains shows most retailers will have insufficient resources to survive beyond June, even […]

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Retail Asia20/04/2020

Low-cost carrier Airasia is set to resume local flights in Malaysia on April 29, subject to the authorities’ approval. It said yesterday it has also set to commence flights in Thailand on May 1, the Philippines (May 1), India (May 4) and Indonesia (May 7). “The resumption of services will initially be for key selected […]

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Retail Asia20/04/2020

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FamilyMart Taiwan is partnering with the food-delivery platform Foodpanda to launch a delivery service. Starting Wednesday next week, the firm plans to offer delivery services from its 1000 outlets nationwide by June, with initial services commencing out of Familymart Taiwan’s 146 locations within Taipei and New Taipei. The service will be rolled out to the […]

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Retail Asia20/04/2020

With OCBC enabling peer-to-peer (P2P) fund transfers on Google Pay, the city-state becomes the third globally to offer the service, after India and the United States. The integration means that OCBC customers can now transfer or receive payments directly from their bank accounts to or from anyone registered to PayNow using the Google Pay app, the bank announced […]

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Retail Asia20/04/2020

The current global crisis has led to an increase in communication services usage, but it looks like they’re able to cope with the demand for the time being. Even though it seems that there’s enough bandwidth to accommodate the spike in usage, many of these services require improvements. WhatsApp is in the process of upgrading its […]

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Retail Asia17/04/2020

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Recently, WhatsApp has been fighting misinformation in regards to the coronavirus pandemic and has therefore introduced some restrictions on its app. This time, however, a new update is supposedly going to further restrict the app, but not because of COVID-19-related reasons. The change is said to affect only the iOS version of the popular messaging app. […]

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Retail Asia17/04/2020

Last year, Google updated the tab overview in Chrome with a nifty Grid Layout. Now comes another improvement to the search experience of the browser. The new feature, still in an experimental phase, adds a little search term chip on each tab in the preview screen showing the term you’ve used to get there. To activate […]

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Retail Asia17/04/2020

New research has shown that some shifts in Asian consumer behavior in response to the coronavirus outbreak could be lasting beyond the pandemic. And that is something that should prompt food retailers to act – and in some cases, accelerate – the changes they have already made in response to the crisis. The survey, conducted […]

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Retail Asia17/04/2020

Parents of young children are really having a tough time with the stay-at-home orders. Not only do they have to try and entertain their kids 24/7, but the parents also have to explain to them why they are stuck at home. Most kids that understand death will worry about their own demise and will be […]

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Retail Asia16/04/2020

The six-week-long coronavirus lockdown is expected to slash Malaysian retail sales by 60.7 percent this month as non-essential stores are forced to close. Retail Group Malaysia, which calculates data on behalf of the Malaysia Retailers Association, estimates that retail sales for the full year will drop by 5.5 percent, should the government’s Movement Control Order […]

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Retail Asia15/04/2020

Short-form video creation app TikTok has reached an impressive milestone. The app has now been installed on over 1 billion Android devices. It has consistently appeared in charts listing the top free apps for both the App Store and Google Play Store; at the end of February, TikTok was the third most installed free app […]

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Retail Asia15/04/2020

Your Phone is a Windows 10 app that links text messages, photos, notifications and even phone calls between your smartphone and PC. Recently, Microsoft quietly made it non-removable from Windows 10, making it clear that the company has big plans for it, hoping to get their users to adopt it, as long as they own […]

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Retail Asia14/04/2020

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Singapore Airlines is looking beyond the value of its airline tickets. As airlines around the world reckon with a tsunami of return ticket requests for flights cancelled in the wake of the global pandemic, Singapore Airlines is telling its customers “we want you back.” With that in mind the luxury airline is enhancing its global travel waiver policy to […]

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Retail Asia14/04/2020

Cebu Pacific flights will remain suspended from April 15 to April 30, 2020, in accordance with the Philippine government’s directive on extending the Enhanced Community Quarantine (ECQ). Passengers on canceled flights are encouraged to take any one of the following options: 1. Free rebooking – Rebook to any other travel date within three months with change […]

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Retail Asia10/04/2020

Indonesian retail sales declined by 0.8 percent year on year during February. The drop was brought about by a decline in demand for clothing, as well as a blanket downturn in recreational spending, according to the monthly Bank Indonesia survey. The sales decline occurred as the Indonesian administration was claiming zero cases of the Covid-19 […]

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Retail Asia10/04/2020

Hangouts Meet was renamed to Google Meet on the company’s Support page, suggesting that a change in the namings of Hangouts Chat and Hangouts, the app, may also follow. The name change has been previously hinted at, with the Hangouts Meet service being referred to as Google Meet in the past, by Google CEO Sundar Pichai. […]

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Retail Asia10/04/2020

Budget carrier Cebu Pacific said Wednesday that its flights remain suspended until the end of the Luzon-wide enhanced community quarantine on April 30. “Due to the extension of the Enhanced Community Quarantine (ECQ) until April 30, Cebu Pacific flights will remain suspended from April 15 to April 30, 2020,” Cebu Pacific said in a statement. […]

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