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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 Asia15/05/2023

Mercedes has been dominating Vietnam’s luxury car market in recent years, but that could start to change this year as BMW lowers prices. “We have always considered BMW a major competitor in most markets globally, but things are different in Vietnam,” said CEO Brad Kelly on the sidelines of the launch of the new Mercedes […]

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Retail Asia03/02/2022

Following the integration of ID cards and driver’s licenses into Apple Wallet, it looks that the next thing to find its way into Apple Wallet will be workplace authorization cards. Customers and employees who visit the 7 World Trade Center will now be able to use an employee badge stored in their Apple Wallet app […]

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Retail Asia11/07/2021

Crypto-linked spending on Visa cards topped $1 billion despite continued doubts about cryptocurrencies as a means of payment. Credit card giant Visa achieved the feat in just the first half of 2021, according to a statement, underlining more steps to make crypto transactions smoother. The firm said it was seeking to partner with 50 crypto […]

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Retail Asia05/01/2021

Self-exiled Hong Kong dissident Ted Hui, who was recently spotlighted over frozen accounts at HSBC, has faced even more pressure from the British lender which allegedly canceled credit cards and «unlawfully embezzled» his funds without explanation. Ted Hui Chi-fung claimed that HSBC had not only canceled credit card accounts belonging to him and his family but frozen […]

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Retail Asia13/01/2020

Tonik, the first pure-play digital bank in Southeast Asia, will debut in the Philippines in 2020. Tonik Digital Bank has received a banking license from Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas, the Philippines’ monetary authority, the bank announced in a statement on its blog on Thursday. This would allow Tonik to provide a full range of retail banking services, focused […]

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Retail Asia27/11/2019

You might think that a set of playing cards is a fairly cheap item that most people pick up in a convenience store or in an airport shop planning to use them to while away the time. While this is true of most sets, there’s a growing trend for retailers to stock more expensive and […]

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Retail Asia10/05/2019

Our clients are highly engaged digitally. We have seen a 33 percent quarter-on-quarter growth in new mobile active clients, as our clients look to do most of their banking activities digitally, from application to activation to service requests and payments,» said Natalia Goh, Head of Credit Cards and Personal Loans, Standard Chartered Bank Singapore, in […]

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Retail Asia06/12/2017

With the establishment of the national payment gateway Gerbang Pembayaran Nasional (GPN), banks need to distribute new debit cards that work using the gateway to help their customers reduce inter-bank transaction costs. The debit cards with GPN’s red eagle logo will be available to the public in January, said BI Governor Agus Martowardojo on Monday, […]

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Retail Asia20/10/2017

The New South Wales Parliament is introducing legislation, creating a three year minimum expiry date on gift cards. This reform will go some ways towards solving the problem of unredeemed gift cards. But there are other issues besides short expiry dates. Research from the United States, which has a five year minimum expiry date, shows an extended […]

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Retail Asia28/07/2017

Mastercard has detailed plans to expand its QR-based payment programs, starting this month. The company will broaden its solutions to offer QR codes that can be scanned by either consumers or merchants under a common set of global specifications. Mastercard worked with EMVCo and other industry players to create a new global QR standard. These standards […]

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Retail Asia23/06/2017

Japan’s JCB Co has partnered with Kasikornbank with an eye on increasing the number of its credit card holders in Thailand by 1.4 million by 2020 to 2 million. “Thailand has potential to be (our) second most important market after Japan and we believe in Thai economic growth in the long run,” said Kimihisa Imada, […]

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Retail Asia05/04/2017

E-commerce businesses may have to accept card payments as a way to offering more options of payment when shopping online, an official from the Ministry of Industry and Trade said. Võ Văn Quyền, director of the ministry’s Domestic Market Department, was quoted as saying that the department was studying amendments to e-commerce business which might include regulations about […]

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Retail Asia08/02/2017

Shinhan Indo Finance Ltd (SIF), a subsidiary of South Korean credit issuer Shinhan Card, has launched its first credit card on the Indonesian market. The “ShinhanIndo Card Hi-Cash” comes in four different types to reach consumers from all segments, especially the millennials. In developing its credit card business, SIF is cooperates with Indo-Pack, merchants under […]

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Retail Asia15/01/2017

UnionPay International (UPI), a global payment network, has reaffirmed its presence in Malaysia by inking a first-of-its-kind partnership with Public Bank (PB), the third largest bank in Malaysia. The two collaborated to launch the PB UnionPay Lifestyle Debit Card in December 2016, targeted at customers and businessmen who are frequent travelers to Asia. Poised as […]

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Retail Asia09/01/2017

With online sales booming in the country of 93 million, it’s time for shoppers to embrace e-commerce. Vietnam is trying to convince at least 70 percent of its citizens aged 15 and over to open bank accounts and about 50 percent of urban residents to switch to non-cash payments via debit and credit cards by […]

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Retail Asia14/12/2016

Ameriabank and Best Card company on Tuesday, December 13 unveiled a new cashback project, as well as the AYO card and AYO program. The AYO program enables all Ameriabank cardholders (except for gift and business cards) to receive cashback for every payment made at partner shopping centers and service points. The amount of the refund […]

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Retail Asia12/12/2016

Global payments and technology company MasterCard is intensifying efforts to tap opportunities in the Indonesian premium market segments by offering a variety of exclusive rewards and services for its premium card holders. Among the select opportunities are wine privileges for the holders of MasterCard Platinum cards, access to passenger lounges at 750 airports for MasterCard World […]

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Retail Asia30/11/2016

The Indian government has made a special exception to temporarily allow demonetized 500 rupee notes for the purchase of prepaid top ups in response to a sharp decline in purchases. The government enacted legislation earlier this month to declare the use of 500 rupee and 1000 rupee banknotes invalid as part of a crackdown on […]

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Retail Asia31/03/2016

The service is too costly. Singapore’s telco operators recently unveiled new NFC-powered SIM cards, which will allow commuters to pay fares using their mobile phones. The SIM cards will also be accepted at 30,000 ez-link terminals across the island. However, the new SIM cards might fail to gain enough popularity because of several stumbling blocks, according […]

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Retail Asia24/12/2014

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Consumers in Australia are less anxious than at any time in the past 18 months amid signs of a robust finale to the Christmas shopping season. The National Australia Bank’s consumer anxiety index, released on Tuesday, has fallen for a second straight quarter to its lowest mark since mid-2013. It also revealed households have increased […]

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