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16/05/2024 The TikTok ban could hurt small businesses that prosper thanks to mobile users ( General )
16/05/2024 WhatsApp could add a new sticker-related feature very soon ( General )
15/05/2024 Facebook and Instagram experiencing outages along the East and West Coasts of the U.S. ( General )
14/05/2024 Qantas to launch new route from Manila to Brisbane ( General )
13/05/2024 Meta expands paid verification service for businesses ( General )
10/05/2024 For complex iPhone AI tasks, Apple will use cloud-based servers running M-series chips ( Electronics )
10/05/2024 Samsung plans to add $1B to Vietnam investment annually ( Electronics )
08/05/2024 Digital content exporters open foreign offices to avoid tax ( General )
06/05/2024 WhatsApp’s new status update tray with previews is rolling out more widely in beta ( General )
02/05/2024 A Deep Dive into Grade A Buildings in Hong Kong ( General )
02/05/2024 Shopee races past other e-commerce rivals ( E-Tailing )
30/04/2024 TikTok, Facebook, and other foreign service providers pay $575M in taxes ( General )
29/04/2024 Sacombank assures no loss on $141M loan to Bamboo Airways ( General )

Retail Asia14/07/2021

Ethereum price isn’t even trading at half the all-time highs it once was, and it has investors, traders, and analysts alike talking about a bear market in crypto. However, with such a severe selloff, it could be enough to stave off a longer bear phase, and a rebound from current levels could send Ethereum to […]

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Retail Asia14/07/2021

Google has just released a brand-new version of its Google Drive desktop app, bringing Google Backup and Google Sync together with Google Photos and other features, along with additional improvements. It will be replacing previous home and business versions alike, aiming to make many of the regularly used Google Workspace features easily accessible in a single […]

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Retail Asia14/07/2021

AirAsia Group has revealed plans to raise up to MYR1.024 billion ringgit (USD244 million) through a renounceable rights issue, with the funds to be diverted to the group’s working capital and operational costs, as well as to further boost efforts to diversify through its AirAsia Digital businesses. The cash call to its shareholders includes seven-year redeemable convertible unsecured […]

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Retail Asia13/07/2021

A new roadmap update by Microsoft shows us a Microsoft Teams feature you will be able to use starting September and it is: walkie-talkie with your phone, over a wireless or cellular connection. The new feature will make communicating with your co-workers quicker. Figuratively speaking, with the new feature, your phone or a tablet will […]

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Retail Asia13/07/2021

WhatsApp has been suffering from some intensive spam, and for that reason, it has been taking banning accounts seriously. With this, though, some users might have actually gotten their account banned without spreading spam. Now, a new feature, currently under development, will make un-banning your account easier. The feature is currently seen as a hidden […]

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Retail Asia13/07/2021

Aldi Australia is planning to convert a supermarket in a densely populated urban area into a trendy small-format ‘corner store’. The budget grocery chain has submitted a development application to North Sydney Council about its proposal for transforming its existing North Sydney outlet into a brand new concept store in a major shake-up to the supermarket […]

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Retail Asia13/07/2021

YouFoodz is set to exit the ASX less than a year after listing after accepting a $0.93 per share takeover bid from HelloFresh – a 109 percent premium on the past month’s average trading. The bid values YouFoodz at approximately $125.3 million and will push HelloFresh into the pre-made meals market – a segment of […]

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Retail Asia13/07/2021

Innovation is by all accounts the best thing in progression in the previous decade. Cell phones, the internet, and things like that have come up in the past few decades, and individuals made use of them for their advantages and turned into a piece of this change. The online gambling business is an industry whose […]

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Retail Asia12/07/2021

South Korean supermarket chain Homeplus has appointed former CEO of McDonald’s Korea Cho Ju-yeon as its new chief marketing officer, in an executive reshuffle announced on Thursday. Cho made headlines in 2016 when she became the first female CEO at the South Korean unit of the fast-food restaurant. Hwang Jeong-wook, who formerly served as the […]

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Retail Asia12/07/2021

WhatsApp is developing an improvement to the options that users have when they send videos from the app. Unless they send a video through WhatsApp as a document, their clips will be automatically compressed on its way to recipients which negatively impacts its quality. At the beginning of this month, WABetaInfo discovered that WhatsApp is working on […]

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Retail Asia09/07/2021

Chinese companies are set to face more even more pressures when listing abroad following a statement from the country’s cabinet that signaled tighter supervision. China will increase supervision over Chinese firms listed offshore, according to a statement from the State Council underlining a focus on cross-border data flows and security as well as illegal activities […]

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Retail Asia09/07/2021

Coles is expanding its baby products range by more than 150 new products while reducing retail price of major baby brands during the next four weeks. The 150 new products include reusable nappies and baby wipes such as Nat Baby and Cub Bare, bamboo feeding accessories, organic baby food pouches and limited-edition toys and clothing. […]

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Retail Asia09/07/2021

Apple has been in some hot water around the world for a while now, regarding its monopolistic practices in the App Store (not to even mention the whole right-to-repair movement). The inability for mobile developers to offer iOS apps anywhere outside the official App Store has been a long-standing issue and the cause for many a lawsuit […]

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Retail Asia08/07/2021

TikTok creators are about to get another tool to help them make money. The top-grossing app in H1 2021 is apparently testing a Cameo-like feature called Shoutouts. The new format will allow TikTok users to request custom videos from their favorite creators and pay for them with in-app currency. The new feature is available for some creators in […]

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Retail Asia08/07/2021

Malaysian budget carrier AirAsia Group will buy Indonesian ride-hailing and payments firm Gojek’s business in Thailand in return for $50 million of shares in part of the airline’s digital business, the companies said on Wednesday. The deal will give Gojek a 4.76% stake in AirAsia SuperApp, valuing the division at around $1 billion, more than […]

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Retail Asia08/07/2021

Thirty-seven U.S. state and district attorneys general sued Alphabet. Google on Wednesday, alleging that it bought off competitors and used restrictive contracts to unlawfully maintain a monopoly for its app store on Android phones. The allegations about Google’s Play Store stem from an investigation involving nearly every U.S. state that began in September 2019 and […]

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Retail Asia08/07/2021

Well, what do you know? Even though we spent the past two years mostly locked up and homebound (pandemic and stuff), the AR game sensation Pokemon GO not only survived but managed to cross the $5 billion mark in lifetime revenue. According to a recent report by SensorTower, the AR title from Niantic has surpassed $5 billion from player spending […]

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Retail Asia08/07/2021

The government will retain minimum ownership of 65 percent in state-owned banks and airport operators that privatize from now through 2025. It will keep a similar rate in large mining companies. The rates will be 50-65 percent in airlines and water utilities, basic chemical production and fuel importing companies. But companies that have a bearing […]

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Retail Asia08/07/2021

Ever wonder how you could look up a product online and all of a suddenly targeted ads for that product pop up on your phone and other connected devices? This, not witchcraft, readers. Third-party apps and websites track your travels across the internet and also know which apps you’ve been viewing. When Apple released iOS 14.5 […]

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Retail Asia07/07/2021

Google continues to work hard on improving Google Maps. The app does so much more than just help take you quickly and safely from point “A” to point “B” as it gives you the names of places to visit, where you should go to eat, events that you should attend while in town, and more. And […]

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