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18/04/2024 Apple CEO Tim Cook says it is considering a manufacturing facility in Indonesia ( Electronics )
18/04/2024 Google Maps to show alternate transit and walking directions along with driving routes ( General )
17/04/2024 Apple releases iOS 17.5 beta 2 giving EU iPhone users more unique capabilities ( E-Tailing )
17/04/2024 WhatsApp rolls out new chat filters to help you locate unread and group conversations ( General )
16/04/2024 Google Chat working on adding group audio and video call function within Gmail Spaces ( General )
15/04/2024 Tim Cook arrives in Vietnam ( Electronics )
15/04/2024 Vietravel Airlines reports first profits in 3 years ( General )
11/04/2024 Samsung adds more language availability within Galaxy AI ( Electronics )
11/04/2024 YouTube Music promises Podcasts will get better on the platform ( General )
09/04/2024 WhatsApp to roll out new photo library shortcut for faster sharing ( General )
09/04/2024 Google Messages will soon start to warn you when tapping on links sent by unknown senders ( General )
08/04/2024 Siri might end up King in the realm of digital assistants after iOS 18 AI makeover ( Electronics )
05/04/2024 Google’s “Find My Device” network reportedly launching in 3 days ( General )
04/04/2024 Instagram, Facebook, Whatsapp users are reporting a “Major Disruption” worldwide ( General )

Retail Asia09/08/2023

Vietnam spent nearly $5 billion importing fuel in the first seven months of 2023, up 61% year-on-year, to ensure adequate supply as its biggest refinery Nghi Son is set to shut down for major maintenance. Its biggest import markets were South Korea, Singapore and Malaysia. Nghi Son in the central province of Thanh Hoa, which […]

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Retail Asia09/08/2023

A trial credit scoring model that encompasses the national citizen database has proven useful for lenders as it reduces lending risks by up to 20%. The model, which is built on the standards of global credit scoring company FICO, is now almost complete with 18 citizen data fields, Vu Van Tan, deputy head of the […]

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Retail Asia09/08/2023

Social media platforms don’t have it too easy these days, and Snapchat is no exception to that. Snapchat owner Snap Inc could face a formal investigation and, if found guilty, be fined some $184 million. All of this – over mismanaging and not enforcing strict enough policies to remove underage users from its platform. Ofcom […]

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Retail Asia09/08/2023

The popularity of smart TVs and smartphones have left TV boxes, or set-top boxes, high and dry. This month a leading electronics retail chain stopped selling TV boxes. Others sell only two of them: Xiaomi Mi Box and Apple TV. Even a few years ago there were no less than five TV box brands with […]

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Retail Asia02/08/2023

Amid a season of low recruitment demand due to economic challenges, companies are still headhunting for experienced and high-skilled IT staff to speed up their digital transformation. Although many companies are scaling down their payroll, demand for IT experts remains high with the most popular recruitment positions being business administration, software development, cybersecurity, artificial intelligence, […]

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Retail Asia31/07/2023

Vietnam Electricity has sought the Government’s permission to hike power tariffs soon saying production costs have risen sharply. The average electricity price was increased by 3% on May 4 to VND1,920.37 (8 U.S. cents) per kilowatt-hour (kWh). But the cost of production had surged by 9.27% last year to VND2,032.26, and so its financial situation […]

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Retail Asia26/07/2023

The government has rejected a proposal by the Ministry of Finance to slap a special consumption tax on online games and sought more scientific data to tax sugary drinks. But in a recent decision, it instructed its agencies to use other legal means to limit playing time. Earlier this year the ministry had suggested imposing […]

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Retail Asia25/07/2023

It looks like last week’s report regarding Spotify Premium’s price adjustments was accurate. As expected, Spotify announced today it will increase the prices of its Premium plan in over 50 countries, not just in the United States as the report claimed. The number one music streaming service in the US confirmed it has more than 200 million Premium subscribers worldwide, […]

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Retail Asia25/07/2023

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Netflix announced today that it is adding a new feature to its popular mobile phone app. Called My Netflix, this is a one-stop shop for both iOS and Android users that features shortcuts to help you find something to stream on the platform. The new My Netflix Hub will show you the content you recently […]

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Retail Asia25/07/2023

Despite the social network bleeding users, Twitter’s owner, Elon Musk, took some questionable decisions over the weekend. After rebranding Twitter’s logo to “X” and promising to bring a bunch of new features that no one asked for, Musk’s is now facing another big problem: the stiff competition. Meta’s attempt to take on Twitter hasn’t been entirely successful, as Threads […]

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Retail Asia24/07/2023

Spotify will no longer remain one of the few music streaming services in the US not to increase its subscription prices. Just about every other player in the market raised prices in the last year or so, while Spotify benefited from influx of customers that decided to switch services. Unfortunately, that didn’t last long, as […]

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Retail Asia21/07/2023

Netflix had a lot of info to share with investors this week. We’ve already reported that the streaming service decided to axe its Basic plan in the UK and US, but it looks like there’s even more interesting information that Netflix revealed in its recent letter to shareholders. After banning account sharing in the United States back in […]

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Retail Asia20/07/2023

Netflix is going ahead with its strategy to completely remove the Basic plan to force customers into choosing more expensive plans or ads. Back in June, Netflix quietly removed the Basic tier in Canada, a move that was expected to extend to other regions in the coming months. Earlier today, Cord Busters noticed that that the Basic […]

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Retail Asia17/07/2023

Thanh Tung thought his job interview went well and his unemployment would finally end, but he was eventually turned down for the position because he was “too old.” The 37-year-old game artist in Go Vap District, HCMC was laid off at the beginning of the year, only a few months after he started working for […]

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Retail Asia17/07/2023

Tu worked in Japan for two years but left when the devaluing yen lowered the value of his savings, which he intended to use back home in Vietnam He eventually set his eyes on Germany. The reasons were quite simple: Germany was experiencing a lack of labor resources and was employing measures to attract more […]

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Retail Asia14/07/2023

Singapore-based Thomson Medical Group has agreed to buy FV Hospital in Ho Chi Minh City for US$381.4 million in what will be Vietnam’s biggest ever healthcare industry deal. The company, which has operations in Singapore and Malaysia, said in a press release Wednesday that it would acquire 100% of Far East Medical Vietnam Ltd, which […]

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Retail Asia14/07/2023

Oil and gas giant Petrovietnam has liquidity issues because it has not been able to collect payables of VND23 trillion ($971 million) from state-owned utility Vietnam Electricity. Over VND14 trillion of the amount is past due, and this is having a major impact on its own business, the oil company said in its first-half financial […]

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Retail Asia14/07/2023

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Calm, the meditation and sleep app with over 4 million users worldwide, has joined forces with Spotify in an unprecedented collaboration. This partnership aims to provide a range of transformative content from Calm to support individuals on their mental health journey. The content is now accessible on Spotify’s platform. The collaboration between Calm and Spotify […]

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Retail Asia13/07/2023

The transport sector carried over 2.17 billion passengers in the first half of 2023, up 15.9% year-on-year, heard a conference hosted by the Ministry of Transport in Hanoi. In the review period, about 1.10 billion tonnes of goods were transported, up 15.9% compared to the same period last year. The volume of railway passengers has […]

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Retail Asia12/07/2023

Spotify aims to connect with their Gen Z Filipino and Indonesian listeners through their new “Music That Finds You” campaign that illustrates the streaming platform’s personalized music discovery services. The campaign, which stars Pinoy hip-hop artists Nik Makino and Flow G and Indonesian rock band NOAH, will span across film, television, OOH, and digital assets. […]

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