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Retail Asia10/10/2016

TravelersBox kiosks are being launched in Asian airports allowing travellers to deposit their leftover foreign coins into their preferred online accounts. More than 40 are expected to be service by the end of the year. TravelersBox is the first service allowing travellers to convert foreign currency into usable digital currency at airports. First rolled out […]

Retail Asia18/08/2016

Baidu is Qlik Sense to improve its cloud services platform and provide an enhanced data analytics experience to its customers. Qlik Sense will be integrated into Baidu Palo to enable self-service visualization analytics on the Palo OLAP engine, giving Chinese enterprises the ability to achieve greater agility in aggregating data from various sources to make […]

Retail Asia14/07/2016

Some brands are even advertising via Snapchat. In a fast-paced and technologically-savvy city-state such as Singapore, brick and mortar shops of retailers, however traditional, may not be adequate anymore. According to a report by Cushman and Wakefield, Italian luxury brand Prada, for example, has announced plans to advertise via Snapchat, and will be offering their […]

Retail Asia20/05/2016

Customers at a new digital KFC concept store in Shanghai give their orders to a voice-activated robot. Dumi the robot is sophisticated enough to handle changes and substitutions in orders. Dumi is the result of 10 years of research and development into artificial intelligence by Chinese web services company Baidu, which says the robot will […]

Retail Asia04/03/2016

China’s retail sector shines China is facing an economic downturn, but Chinese consumers are hopeful about its economy. According to Boston Consulting Group, China’s total retail sales are forecasted to grow by 50% to $6.5 trillion by 2020 with online transactions growing by nearly 25%. Retail sales were up by 11.2% in January 2016 due […]

Retail Asia29/01/2016

As more people start using their smartphones or the internet to order food, China’s eCommerce leaders are in a battle for supremacy. Now a food-delivery startup backed by Tencent Holdings, Ele.me, is planning a fast funding round of at least $1.25 billion, in a deal led by competitor Alibaba Group Holding, reports Deal Street Asia. […]

Retail Asia05/12/2015

The two Internet giants in China, Baidu and Amazon have reached in an agreement to strengthen their respective positions in the strong Chinese market.. The two companies, digital heavyweights, formalized the agreement Thursday, December 3, 2015 in a press release. As an element of partnership Baidu search engines will be installed by default on Kindle […]

Retail Asia21/11/2015

China’s total retail sales of consumer goods rose 11.0% year-over-year (or YoY) to 2.8 trillion yuan in October. The data indicated better-than-expected growth in retail sales and a slight improvement from September’s rise of 10.9%.On a year-to-date (or YTD) basis from January to October, the total retail sales of consumer goods reached 24.4 trillion yuan, […]

Retail Asia12/11/2015

Chinese search engine Baidu is experiencing rapid growth as more and more Chinese shop online. Releasing its September quarter sales results, the US Nasdaq-listed business says Online to Offline is driving a massive growth in mobile users, gross merchandise value and mobile map usage. “With mobile accounting for nearly two-thirds of Baidu’s search traffic and […]

Retail Asia10/06/2015

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Chinese language web search engine Baidu has raised US$800,000 in simply an hour in a charity undertaking aimed toward serving to critically sick orphans. Baidu teamed up with 800,000 web sites and 50,000 app suppliers to kick off this yr’s “One Hour,One Click on” marketing campaign on Might 29. Inside only one hour, the marketing […]

Retail Asia22/01/2015

Alibaba and Tencent spent more than USD8 billion last year alone backing often strikingly similar ventures, as the Chinese Internet giants race to create online one-stop-shops to win the digital loyalty of a tenth of the world’s population. Before China became the biggest smartphone market, there was little overlap between the businesses of e-commerce leader […]

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TravelersBox rolling out in Asia

Baidu adopts Qlik Sense for self-service analytics

Innovate or die: Singapore retailers advised to reinvent as brick and mortarshops lose luster

KFC tests its robot orders

China’s Retail Sector Emerged as a Bright Spot in Slowing Economy

Ele.me may go to Alibaba

Amazon China and Baidu join hands

China’s Retail Sales Rose in October

Shopping drives Baidu growth

Baidu raises $800,000 in a single hour

Alibaba, Tencent spend billions in race to be China’s one-stop online shop