If you think about what your home was like even just a few years ago, life was very different. Think about what grocery shopping was like. You’d open your fridge…
The concept of wellness will increasingly be incorporated into houseware and home designs, predicts consumer market analytics firm WGSN. Speaking at the 34th HKTDC Hong Kong Houseware Fair and the…
Huawei’s continued quest to be one of the world’s largest cloud players took a small step forward with the announcement of a new partnership with Infosys. Huawei Cloud has signed…
Although iPhone sales haven’t been living up to Apple’s expectations lately, a recent CIRP report revealed that iPhones were the best-selling devices in the US throughout the first quarter of 2019. And…
Singapore’s Chinatown Point Mall has been sold to a subsidiary of Pan Asia Realty Advisors, for S$520 million (US$383.28 million). The joint-venture, including Mitsubishi Estate and CLSA Real Estate Partners,…
You know that the annual Google I/O developers conference is just around the corner when the latest Google I/O app becomes available in the Google Play Store. With Google I/O…
Australian designer Kym Ellery has closed the local arm of her highly successful fashion brand, Ellery, citing the high cost of manufacturing Down Under. The company on Tuesday announced it…
Chinese food-delivery website Meituan has closed three of its Ella Supermarkets in Jiangsu, almost halving its network of outlets. The business initiative, which sells fresh supermarket produce online for fast…
Veeko International has sealed a deal to buy a retail property in the New Territories, with an eye to converting it into one of its own stores. Veeko – which…
The Zurich-based bank’s net profit for the first quarter dropped to $1.1 billion Swiss francs from $1.6 billion a year ago, it said in a statement on Thursday. A 6.5 percent…
The Siam Commercial Bank (SCB), the first commercial bank in Thailand, and Julius Baer, the leading Swiss wealth management group and one of the four largest private banks in Asia,…
An official Nintendo Hong Kong online store has opened this week. The new storefront eplaces a former Nintendo page that offered download codes which could be redeemed on WhatsMall. Now…
Google Fit, the health-tracking app that made its debut on Android four years ago, has now been released on iOS. The app has gone through multiple overhauls since its launch back…
Michael Kors is expanding its smartwatch offering with an improved version of Sofie, a wearable device that was launched two years ago. The new model, weirdly named Sofie Heart Rate, packs…
eBay and the Singapore Institute of Retail Studies (SIRS) joined forces to deliver training to small businesses and entrepreneurs seeking new and global sales channels in the fast-growing eCommerce sector.…
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