Cafe de Coral group expects its full-year profit to plunge by up to 90 percent for the March year as the Covid-19 crisis and last year’s protests dented customer traffic.…
US fashion label Michael Kors has unveiled a new customization service for its handbag range. The MK My Way service is making its debut on Alibaba’s e-commerce site Tmall today…
Thanks to the COVID-19 outbreak, people are connecting with their friends and family through video chat apps such as FaceTime, Duo, Houseparty, and Zoom. When Apple released iOS 12.1 in…
Volkswagen will restart production at its Wolfsburg factory in Germany on Monday, the latest of a fleet of European carmakers to take advantage of eased coronavirus lockdown rules to resume…
US footwear brand Skechers has reported a modest 2.7-per-cent drop in first-quarter sales brought on by the coronavirus outbreak – and painted a rosy picture of life beyond the coronavirus…
Apple U.K. has just shared the company’s new 30-second ad for the second-generation Apple iPhone SE which officially launches today, right in the middle of a global pandemic. The iPhone SE (2020) borrows the…
Senior management of British luxury fashion house Burberry has taken a voluntary pay cut and the company has opted to retain base pay for all its employees during the Covid-19…
Malaysian mall operator Sunway Malls is testing a new policy to allow non-essential retailers to implement flexible operating hours following the advent of government movement control orders. If the one-month…
In May 2019, WhatsApp identified and fixed a loophole that enabled cybercriminals to install spyware on smartphones just by ringing the victim’s phone. The video calling system was exploited in particular and…
Marcel Ospel, the chairman of UBS until shortly before a 2008 Swiss government rescue, has died. He was 70. Ospel was eventually ousted after UBS was forced to repeatedly go…
Taiwan foodservice sales have slumped by 21 percent year on year due to the coronavirus pandemic. Ministry of Economic Affairs data revealed total F&B sales of NT$51.9 billion (US$1.73 billion)…
Furniture and homewares giant Ikea is reporting a quick return of customer footfall to its stores in China as they reopen after the Covid-19 crisis. The company opened another three…
Thai Vietjet is offering more than a million promotional tickets priced from only THB9 (approximately USD 28 cents) (*) for Thailand flights from August. Passengers can book the promotional tickets…
Kerry Logistics Network Limited (‘Kerry Logistics’; Stock Code 0636.HK) announced the expansion of its coffee trading business into Taiwan, as the sole distributor of Italian coffee group illycaffè’s complete product…
The deal for the Jakarta-based mobile point-of-sale (POS) market leader Moka, which would make Gojek to become a major player in Indonesia’s digital payments space, has been in the making…
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