Category: Research

Retail Asia21/04/2017
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While online security remains a top consideration for Asia-Pacific consumers, it hasn’t stopped them from opening up their wallets. According to the latest Mastercard Online Shopping Survey, eight in 10 of consumers across the region who have shopped online last year intend to make at least one online purchase in the first half of 2017. […]

Retail Asia20/04/2017
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Employee device security and customer experience are top priorities in Southeast Asia for both businesses and IT leaders, a new study indicates. The commissioned study on workforce transformation, conducted by Forrester Consulting on behalf of Dell, investigated the key challenges and drivers that businesses are facing in the adoption of workforce enablement technology. According to […]

Retail Asia19/04/2017
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Leveraging artificial intelligence (AI) for supply chains is an important next step to lower costs, improve productivity and drive growth by helping businesses reduces time-to-market. There are many opportunities to utilize AI along the chain from buying raw materials/components, converting them into finished products, selling to customers and delivering to end customers. Supply chains, generally, […]

Retail Asia19/04/2017
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About 2 billion mobile phones will be shipped in 2017, a 2% rise from 2016, and this growth rate is expected to continue resulting in a staggering 10 billion mobile phones being shipped over the next five years, CCS Insight estimates Smartphones will continue to account for most sales, with an expected 1.53 billion shipped […]

Retail Asia13/04/2017
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The rising relevance of the cloud in the current business environment is prompting contact center solution providers (CCSPs) to shift from a premise-based legacy infrastructure to hosted/cloud contact centers. Global, as well as mid-sized CCSPs such as Avaya, Genesys, Verint, NICE, Cisco, Unify, Interactive Intelligence and West Interactive, are strategically offering an omnichannel customer experience to attract business across end-user […]

Retail Asia12/04/2017
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With a population of over 250 million and rapidly growing internet adoption, the Indonesian archipelago could offer a booming market for online shopping — and current projections say it will reach $130 billion by 2020. “The great thing is that there are a lot of investments… There are choices for consumers that love innovative solutions […]

Retail Asia11/04/2017
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The global equipment market for in-building wireless system, including active distributed antenna systems (DAS), passive DAS, and repeaters, is expected to grow to $10 billion in 2025, according to ABI Research. Yet, out of this market, 5G in-building wireless equipment will account for only 5% or $509 million in 2025, due to one year or […]

Retail Asia10/04/2017
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As companies seek to transform themselves with IoT technologies, they are confronted by an incredibly complex and diverse supplier market from which to build IoT solutions, according to ABI Research. To address this challenge, suppliers are leveraging ecosystem partnerships to provide end-users with a one-stop-shop portfolio of hardware, software, and services. These emerging IoT Marketplaces […]

Retail Asia08/04/2017
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In response to a new study forecasting a tenfold rise in worldwide data by 2025, Seagate is advising business leaders and entrepreneurs to amplify their focus on the mega trends driving data growth over the next several years, and examine their business’ course for the future value of data from creation, collection, utilization and management. […]

Retail Asia05/04/2017
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Cybercriminals are building an  “army of things” that is powered by the digital underground, according to Fortinet. The security company’s latest Global Threat Landscape Report covering Q4 2016 reveals the methods and strategies cybercriminals employed during the quarter in detail. The report confirms that Internet of Things (IoT) devices are sought-after commodities for cybercriminals around […]

Retail Asia30/03/2017
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Nokia’s latest Threat Intelligence Report indicates that there was a steady increase in mobile device infections throughout 2016. Malware struck an estimated 1.35% of all mobile devices in October – the highest level seen since reporting started in 2012. The overall infection rate meanwhile increased 63% sequentially in the second half of 2016. Smartphones were […]

Retail Asia17/03/2017
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An overwhelming number of generation Z, also known as post-millennials, prefer visiting a store as the final step in their shopping process, new research has found. In its Evolution of Retail 2017 Generation Z shopper survey, Euclid Analytics found that 66 per cent of the demographic prefers in-store shopping, while 28 per cent wants to […]

Retail Asia09/03/2017
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Local consumers say global giants like Amazon and eBay offer a wider range of products and better return policies. Vietnamese online shoppers spend significantly more on overseas purchases than they do domestically as they believe international e-commerce platforms offer better products and service quality, a new report has said. The report, from the Vietnam E-commerce […]

Retail Asia09/03/2017
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Nearly nine in 10 (86%) organizations in In Asia-Pacific will have some form of IoT in place by 2019, according to results of a survey from Hewlett Packard Enterprise’s Aruba. Organizations across the enterprise, industrial, healthcare, retail and municipality sectors globally are adopting IoT to leverage the business benefits of enhanced efficiency and innovation, the […]

Retail Asia07/03/2017
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Serial telecoms entrepreneur Alexey Reznikovich says that building an “enabled gateway” to customers is the key to survival for traditional telecoms players, who need to stop relying on the diminishing returns from connectivity. Speaking at a keynote session at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona last week, Rezhikovich outlined how his company VimpelCom, now re-branded at […]

Retail Asia20/02/2017
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Unsecured IoT devices continued to drive significant DDoS attack traffic in the fourth quarter of 2016, according to Akamai’s latest State of the Internet / Security Report. The fourth quarter report also revealed that attacks greater than 100 Gbps increased to 12 during the quarter, a 40% year-over-year increase. Seven of the 12 Q4 2016 […]

Retail Asia16/02/2017
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On February 16, the Hanoi People’s Court will resume a trial over corruption and money laundering charges against Vinashin Ocean Shipping Co., Ltd. (Vinashinlines). In this trial, defendant Giang Van Hien (67, Ho Chi Minh City) has been charged with helping his son and former director of sales at Vinashinlines Giang Kim Dat (born 1977) […]


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