Tag: data

Retail Asia18/09/2020
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Global gaming retailer, manufacturer and payments ecosystem Razer has inadvertently exposed personal information about some 100,000 of its customers online due to a misconfigured server. The data was stored on an Elasticsearch cluster that was set to allow public access, potentially exposing the customers to targeted phishing attacks by individuals posing as the company. Sensitive […]

Retail Asia14/05/2020
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Chinese coffee chain Luckin, once lauded for its overt attempt to dethrone Starbucks within the country, has fired or suspended eight executives over the fraudulent misrepresentation of sales data last year. Luckin executives Jenny Zhiya Qian, who was CEO, and Jian Liu, COO, have been sacked over the highly publicized scandal that saw its stock […]

Retail Asia13/03/2020
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Standard Chartered launches «nexus» – a new solution that will allow digital vendors to co-create loans, credit card and savings accounts with the bank under their own brand name. As e-commerce platforms elsewhere are also merging financial innovations, Standard Chartered’s move will enable digital players that lack financial capabilities to enhance their offering and potentially […]

Retail Asia28/01/2020
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Success in today’s competitive retail landscape means putting the customer front and center. Retailers must understand their customers’ every need and deliver relevant, personalized experiences at the right moment to meet those needs. This necessity is particularly strong across the diverse APAC region, where connected device use, commerce platform capabilities, and consumer buying behaviors vary […]

Retail Asia21/10/2019
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Cable.co.uk analyzed 6,313 mobile data plans from 230 different countries from October to November 2018. For India’s market, 57 mobile data plans were analyzed and found that the lowest rate per 1GB in the country was 1.41 Rupees ($0.02) while the highest was at 98.83 Rupees ($1.41). “A country whose young population has a particularly […]

Retail Asia29/08/2019
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Major financial data provider Refinitiv has launched a new service providing real-time data through cloud-based delivery in Asia, leveraging Amazon Web Services. The service, named Elecktron, is designed to simplify access to real-time price information and eliminate the need to invest in physical infrastructure. In addition, delivery through Amazon Web Services enables greater flexibly in […]

Retail Asia19/07/2019
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Google is making it possible for Android and iOS users to auto-delete location history and activity data starting today. Although the search giant already provided the ability to turn on or off the Location History and Web & App Activity directly from the Google Account, including the option to manually delete the data recorded, there was […]

Retail Asia18/06/2019
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HMD Global, licensee for the Nokia smartphone brand, has received Android Enterprise Recommended certification to three new devices in its portfolio. The three new devices include the Nokia 9 PureView, the recently announced smartphone with a five-camera array, as well as the Nokia 4.2 and 3.2 devices. HMD Global now has 14 Nokia branded devices […]

Retail Asia17/06/2019
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Incidents in public cloud infrastructure are more likely to happen because of a customer’s employees rather than actions carried out by cloud providers, according to a new Kaspersky Lab report. Companies expect cloud providers to be responsible for the safety of data stored on their cloud platforms, the report found. However, around 90% of corporate […]

Retail Asia05/06/2019
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Uniqlo parent Fast Retailing announced hackers may have gained access to personal information of 461,091 accounts registered on the company’s Japanese shopping websites. The retailer said in a statement Monday the hackers may have accessed customers’ personal information, purchase history and partial credit card numbers of some of the users of its Uniqlo Japan and […]

Retail Asia03/06/2019
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The Japanese government has passed a new bill aimed at reducing mobile prices for consumers and stimulating competition in the mobile market. The new bill includes provisions banning operators from offering bundled device and mobile plans under a single price package. The new law, which is due to take effect as early as the third […]


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