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Poney flagship Store in KL opens at Central iCity

Mei Ling Tan June 17, 2019

Malaysian childrenswear retailer Poney has opened a flagship store in the new Central iCity shopping centre. Poney Group has three brands – Poney, Baby Poney and Poney Enfants, offering apparel…

McDonald’s China Teams up loyalty program with Ele.me app

Mei Ling Tan June 17, 2019

McDonald’s customers in China can now earn loyalty points when they order a Big Mac or Filet-o-Fish through Ele.me, Alibaba Group’s on-demand delivery platform. Ele.me users can activate a McDonald’s…

Logistics heading to personalisation in digital era

Mei Ling Tan June 17, 2019

The biggest trend in logistics right now is arguably not artificial intelligence, blockchain or even visibility, it’s hyper-personalization – which is ushering in a new era of delivery once only…

New CEO For Zara Owned Inditex

Mei Ling Tan June 17, 2019

Zara owner Inditex has named chief operating officer Carlos Crespo as its new chief executive to spearhead a bigger push into e-commerce. Crespo will continue in his existing position until…

AirAsia appoints Kris Taute to global communications role based in Kuala Lumpur

Mei Ling Tan June 17, 2019

AirAsia Australia PR and communications manager Kris Taute has moved to the airline’s Kuala Lumpur headquarters for a new global communications role. Taute had joined Air Asia last year, moving…

Apple iOS 12.3.1 update released to fix iMessage and VoLTE issues

Mei Ling Tan June 17, 2019

Apple has just released another iOS update, which addresses a couple of issues that many iPhone users have complained of lately. If you’re rocking an iPhone as your daily driver,…

Stosa Cucine opens first Singaporian store

Mei Ling Tan June 17, 2019

Italian kitchen-design studio Stosa Cucine has opened its first store in Singapore. Located at the Apex @ Henderson building, the showroom spans 140sqm, displaying four kitchen models: Aliant, Natural, Infinity,…

Vietnam considering mobile money trials this year

Mei Ling Tan June 17, 2019

Vietnam’s Ministry of Information and Communication has held an international workshop on the ability of mobile money to promote financial inclusion, as part of preparations for potential mobile money trails.…

Globe digitally transforms Semirara Island

Mei Ling Tan June 17, 2019

The Philippines’ Globe Telecom worked with the nation’s largest coal producer Semirara Mining and Power Corporation (SMPC) to digitally transform Semirara Island in Antique. The 55 square kilometer island is…

Philippines publishes common tower rules

Mei Ling Tan June 17, 2019

The Philippines’ Department of ICT has published the rules and regulations for the new common tower provider regime with the goal of building or converting at least 2,500 common towers…

Telenor Myanmar signs partnership with TikTok

Mei Ling Tan June 17, 2019

Telenor Myanmar has become the market’s first official partner for short-form video sharing platform TikTok, and introduced a new mobile data plan to support the partnership. The operator has introduced…

Humans cause 90% of cloud data breaches

Mei Ling Tan June 17, 2019

Incidents in public cloud infrastructure are more likely to happen because of a customer’s employees rather than actions carried out by cloud providers, according to a new Kaspersky Lab report.…

AirAsia, beyond 1Q19 and headline numbers

Mei Ling Tan June 17, 2019

Tan Sri Tony Fernandes tweeted two months ago that AirAsia Group Bhd will have its “best year” in 2019, and so far headline numbers look okay, if not promising, at…

China is experiencing a convenience-store Expansion

Mei Ling Tan June 14, 2019

China is experiencing a convenience-store boom. Nearly 12,000 new convenience stores were opened on the mainland last year, according to the China Urban Convenience Store Index, an increase of 18…

Privacy browser Tor is now available on Android

Mei Ling Tan June 14, 2019

With online privacy becoming an increasingly rare luxury these days, most all browsers offer some sort of “incognito” mode that’s supposed to help bypass various “surveillance” methods employed on the…

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Poney flagship Store in KL opens at Central iCity

McDonald’s China Teams up loyalty program with Ele.me app

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New CEO For Zara Owned Inditex

AirAsia appoints Kris Taute to global communications role based in Kuala Lumpur

Apple iOS 12.3.1 update released to fix iMessage and VoLTE issues

Stosa Cucine opens first Singaporian store

Vietnam considering mobile money trials this year

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Philippines publishes common tower rules

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