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Google Maps update finally adds weather information on Android

Mei Ling Tan February 7, 2024

Google’s apps don’t always offer the same features on iOS and Android, but the Mountain View company is trying to not keep any important functionality exclusive to just one platform…

WhatsApp is working on a pinning feature for its Android app

Mei Ling Tan February 7, 2024

WhatsApp’s next feature will allow users to pin channels. After gaining Channels a while ago, WhatsApp desperately needs a way to declutter the long list some users have joined. The…

Banks see massive layoffs

Mei Ling Tan February 7, 2024

Faced with difficulties that are expected to linger, large western banks are slashing costs by downsizing their payrolls and increasing the use of artificial intelligence. Deutsche Bank has said it…

Chinese EV giant BYD to begin Vietnam sales in May

Mei Ling Tan February 7, 2024

The world’s biggest electric vehicle maker, China’s BYD, will set up shop in Hanoi in May. It would sell its first cars in the sedan and SUV segments, sources familiar…

Dollar steps up over dong

Mei Ling Tan February 7, 2024

The U.S. dollar rose against the Vietnamese dong Wednesday morning. Vietcombank sold the dollar at VND24,570, up 0.16% from Tuesday. It fell 0.40% to VND24,850 on the black market. The…

VinFast recalls 5,900 EVs for headlight issue

Mei Ling Tan February 7, 2024

VinFast is recalling 5,912 VF 5 Plus electric vehicles manufactured last year to fix the issue of headlights turning off when the left turn signal is switched on. The company…

Nokia signs 5G patent deal with vivo

Mei Ling Tan February 6, 2024

Nokia has signed a lot of 5G patent agreements in the last year. The Finnish company recent convinced Oppo that it’s better to make use of technology that other companies patent…

Cross-border e-commerce Vietnam’s next big thing in exports

Mei Ling Tan February 6, 2024

According to U.S. e-commerce giant Amazon, cross-border e-commerce is expected to be the fifth-highest value export of Vietnam by 2027, with a value of US$12 billion. “2023 Performance Report: Empowering…

Cathay Cargo volume up 20 percent in December

Mei Ling Tan February 6, 2024

Cathay Pacific’s cargo business ended 2023 on a high note, finishing with around 1.4 million tonnes, compared with about 1.2 million tonnes in 2022, in what it described as ‘an…

Meet Rufus, Amazon’s new AI shopping assistant

Mei Ling Tan February 6, 2024

Amazon is among the companies that has iterated a lot when it comes to artificial intelligence. The US-based giant continues to develop new AI tools, especially now that AI is the…

Waze for iOS gets update that fixes one issue but fails to exterminate two key bugs

Mei Ling Tan February 5, 2024

Waze for iOS received an update in the App Store as January ended. Version 4.101 of the crowdsourced navigation app was supposed to fix an issue that incorrectly showed railroad…

Shopify has your back if you want to try the AI magic with a new image editor

Mei Ling Tan February 2, 2024

Back in ancient times, supermarkets used to hand out paper brochures with the week’s top offers. Naturally, you didn’t pay much attention to the product image – you focused on…

Vietnam wins bid to export 300,000 tons of rice to Indonesia

Mei Ling Tan February 2, 2024

Seven Vietnamese firms have won a bid to export 300,000 tons of rice to Indonesia, or more than half the volume that country’s plans to import in January. Their lowest…

Vietcombank continues to achieve record profits

Mei Ling Tan February 2, 2024

State-owned lender Vietcombank reported record pre-tax profits of VND41.2 trillion (US$1.68 billion) for 2023. Its previous highest was VND37.4 trillion a year earlier. It made the bank the most profitable…

Apple chip builder TSMC not yet ready to move to next-gen lithography system

Mei Ling Tan February 1, 2024

Back in December, Dutch tech giant ASML shipped its first High-NA Extreme Ultraviolet (EUV) lithography machine (EXE:5000) to Intel. The $400 million machine will take us to the next tier of…

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