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Globe deploys CEM suite from NICE

Mei Ling Tan September 21, 2016

Globe Telecom has become the Philippines’ first operator to implement NICE’s Total Voice of the Customer (TVOC) suite to help improve the customer experience. The operator has deployed the suite…

PT Telkom launches pay TV content and ad platform

Mei Ling Tan September 21, 2016

Indonesia’s PT Telkom, through satellite business unit Metrasat, has launched a new content and advertising solution designed to support the pay TV industry in Indonesia. Metrasat, itself a subsidiary of…

Makansutra brings Singapore street hawker food to Manila

Mei Ling Tan September 21, 2016

Singapore food culture company Makansutra has created what it describes as one of the most modern but retro looking heritage food halls in Manila. Founded in 1997 by entrepreneur-photojournalist, KF…

Pokemon Go device launched in Japan

Mei Ling Tan September 21, 2016

Hundreds of people have stood in long lines outside Japanese stores to buy the Pokemon Go Plus device. In Osaka, around 700 people waited outside a Pokemon Centre shop to…

New roadmap issued for Singapore retail

Mei Ling Tan September 21, 2016

Guidelines aimed at spurring new life into the Singapore retail industry have been launched by the government. Its Retail Industry Transformation Map (ITM) follows the release of a food services…

Aeon Mall inviting foreign firms to be tenants

Mei Ling Tan September 21, 2016

Aiming to add variety in the face of intensifying competition, Japanese retail giant Aeon Mall is inviting foreign businesses to sign on as tenants in Japan. Aeon Mall, which has…

Coach Tmall flagship abandoned

Mei Ling Tan September 21, 2016

The official Coach Tmall flagship shop has been abandoned. Luxury bag brand Coach Inc says it will replace its shop on Alibaba Group Holding’s business-to-consumer sales site by selling directly…

Huawei unveils newest security solution for SDN

Mei Ling Tan September 21, 2016

Huawei has unveiled its latest SDN security solution which promises to “guarantees the security of enterprise tenants’ applications hosted on the cloud”. Based on the core component Agile Controller, the…

Huawei, ZTE launch pre-5G network components

Mei Ling Tan September 21, 2016

Huawei and ZTE have both announced the launch of pre-5G products to help operators prepare for the new technology. ZTE released its new Pre5G MIMO 2.0 product at the China…

GM Korea to sell 10 Chevrolet Aveo compacts online

Mei Ling Tan September 20, 2016

GM Korea said on Sept. 19 it will sell 10 units of its new Chevrolet Aveo compacts via Auction, a local online shopping site affiliated with eBay Korea, on Sept.…

Philippines raises 100 bln pesos through retail T-bond sale

Mei Ling Tan September 20, 2016

The Philippines raised 100 billion pesos ($2.1 billion) from the sale of retail treasury bonds, the government said on Monday. The nine-day public offer for 3.5 percent 2026 bonds closed…

Retail sector jobless rate rises to 5.4pc

Mei Ling Tan September 20, 2016

Retail sector jobless rate rises to 5.4pc The Secretary for Labour and Welfare, Matthew Cheung Kin-chung, said today that on a year-on-year comparison, Hong Kong’s unemployment rate was 0.3 percentage…

China eyes Vietnam’s hundred-billion dollar retail market

Mei Ling Tan September 20, 2016

Miniso has been mentioned repeatedly in local newspapers. The retailer has announced its official presence in Vietnam through a franchise contract signed with Le Bao Minh Group. Le Bao Minh’s…

LeCloud, Cisco team up to secure OTT video services

Mei Ling Tan September 20, 2016

Cisco is teaming up with LeCloud Computing to drive the development of Digital Rights Management (DRM) through its leading VideoGuard Everywhere DRM solution. The two companies have built a DRM…

Ericsson, Google partner on pay TV

Mei Ling Tan September 20, 2016

Ericsson and Google are partnering to extend the reach of the Ericsson cloud-based MediaFirst TV Platform into the Android TV ecosystem, Google’s operating system for the set-top-box. Ericsson MediaFirst is…

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