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24/04/2024 Vietnam tops Southeast Asia in number of Apple suppliers ( Electronics )
24/04/2024 FPT and Nvidia to build $200M AI factory in Vietnam ( Electronics )
23/04/2024 Google Meet now lets users make annotations during presentations ( General )
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Retail Asia23/11/2023

More than half of Vietnam’s population shopped online last year as both supply and demand in the e-commerce sector continue to boom. Dang Anh Dung, deputy CEO of Lazada Vietnam, told the forum on e-commerce on Tuesday that a report by Google and Temaske & Bain said around 57 million Vietnamese made online purchases last […]

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Retail Asia05/10/2023

Indonesia has banned e-commerce transactions on social media platforms, the trade minister said on Wednesday, in a blow to short video app TikTok, which is doubling down on Southeast Asia’s biggest economy to boost its e-commerce business. The government said the move, which takes effect immediately, is aimed at protecting offline merchants and marketplaces, adding […]

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Retail Asia24/04/2023

The company announced that Amazon launched its Anti-Counterfeiting Exchange (ACX), an initiative to help retail stores label and track marketplace counterfeits as part of the e-commerce giant’s efforts to crack down on organized crime on its platform on Thursday. Online marketplaces in the United States, including Amazon face hurdles in keeping counterfeiters off their platforms […]

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Retail Asia13/04/2021

Chinese regulators have fined Alibaba 18 billion yuan ($2.75 billion) – around 4 percent of its revenues in 2019 – for violating anti-monopoly rules and abusing its dominant market position. The State Administration for Market Regulation (SAMR) said that after an investigation launched in December, it had determined that Alibaba Group had been “abusing market […]

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Retail Asia03/03/2021

FJ Benjamin Holdings (FJB) and leading eCommerce platform, Lazada Singapore, today signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) to forge a strategic partnership that aims to deliver the ultimate retail experience to customers across all channels and devices. The proposed partnership will tap Lazada’s technical and online capabilities, and eCommerce platform management expertise, and leverage FJB’s […]

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Retail Asia05/02/2021

If India’s Future Group cannot sell assets, $4 billion in bank loans and debentures will be at risk, pushing its retail unit into insolvency, the company said in a court filing on Wednesday against Amazon.com Inc, which wants to block the sale. A court in New Delhi blocked Future Group’s sale of retail assets to […]

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Retail Asia23/10/2020

In case the Covid-19 pandemic continues to pose major risks to the economy in the final quarter of 2020, Vietnam’s e-commerce market could be severely impacted, seeing a revenue loss of US$2.6 billion from the previous estimate to US$11 billion this year, according to a report from the Ministry of Industry and Trade (MoIT). Such a figure […]

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Retail Asia08/10/2020

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Chinese tech giant Alibaba has agreed to form a joint venture (JV) with Swiss duty-free group Dufry, as Chinese shoppers’ appetite for overseas luxury goods seemed unfettered by the pandemic. It also announced that it would acquire an up to 9.99 percent stake in the duty-free operator in a statement released last Monday. Alibaba Group will […]

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Retail Asia07/10/2020

Amazon announced the expansion of Transparency to two new countries – Japan and Australia – making it available in 10 countries where Amazon has a store. Amazon Transparency is also celebrating a milestone of enrolling over 10,000 brands into the program. Transparency, launched in 2018, is a product serialization service that builds on Amazon’s long-standing […]

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Retail Asia28/09/2020

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Alibaba Cloud, the digital technology and intellectual backbone of Alibaba Group, has seen the demand for its database family of products doubles year-over-year. The increment was fueled by industries’ growing needs to move their operation online given the lasting impacts of COVID-19. Alibaba Cloud is the third largest cloud computing company in the world, and […]

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Retail Asia25/09/2020

Japanese e-commerce platform Ruten has launched a global website, offering more than 60 million Japanese including snacks, supplements, kitchen appliances, beauty products, and fashion to 13 markets. The site is now shoppable from markets including Singapore, Hong Kong, Canada, Indonesia, South Korea, and New Zealand and Ruten Japan says it will expand its product range […]

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Retail Asia20/08/2020

China’s JD beat analysts’ estimates for quarterly sales, as the firm benefited from a shift in shopping habits of domestic consumers who have largely moved to online ever since the outset of the Covid-19 pandemic. The results coincide with growing tensions between Beijing and Washington. Several Chinese companies are putting off plans for US listings […]

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Retail Asia06/08/2020

ShopBack, Asia Pacific’s leading rewards and discovery platform, will officially launch its website and mobile app in Vietnam on 8 August, in line with an 8.8 launch campaign. Online shoppers in Vietnam can now earn up to 25% cashback from ShopBack Vietnam’s roster of over 150 merchants. These include international and regional brands like Lazada, […]

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Retail Asia30/07/2020

Victoria Beckham Beauty has launched a flagship store on Alibaba’s Tmall Global platform, marking the brand’s debut in China. The Victoria Beckham Beauty online store features a wide range of skincare and makeup products, including the brand’s exclusive skincare line Power Glow Set, on Tmall Global platform. To celebrate the launch, the brand has signed […]

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Retail Asia22/07/2020

The popularity of e-commerce has risen in Hong Kong as a result of the coronavirus pandemic, despite the market’s longstanding preference for physical stores. Analytics firm GlobalData says its research shows that the e-commerce market in the territory will grow at a compound annual growth rate of 9.9 percent by 2024 to reach US$29 billion. […]

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Retail Asia30/06/2020

Southeast Asian e-commerce platform Lazada has appointed Chun Li as its new CEO. Li will succeed former CEO Pierre Poignant, who will head to Alibaba Group as a special assistant to its CEO Daniel Zhang. “Chun is an experienced business leader who can realize Lazada’s vision of unifying commerce with technology to advance Southeast Asia’s […]

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Retail Asia14/05/2020

B2B e-commerce platform Nuorder is launching a virtual showroom service for brands to showcase products via an immersive online experience. About 40 percent of NuOrder’s sales of around US$1 billion per month come from markets outside North America and a spokesperson told Inside Retail Asia that Asia is a standout growth market for the company. […]

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Retail Asia13/05/2020

Lazada has partnered with Southeast Asian fintech startup Alumak to provide online merchants with working capital during the Covid-19 pandemic. Business owners selling through Lazada for at least six months can apply online using their Lazada account in place of the need to submit formal paperwork, in a process that takes less than 10 minutes. […]

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Retail Asia02/04/2020

Citi is the latest in Asia to tap into the digital commerce channel amidst the coronavirus pandemic, partnering with major Hong Kong e-shopping platform HKTVmall. Citi Hong Kong’s partnership with the renowned HKTVmall will include a specialized credit card that leverages API technology to enable instant application and approval. The Citi HKTVmall Credit Card also […]

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Retail Asia25/03/2020

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Auto retailers have been slow to embrace e-commerce, but the coronavirus pandemic is changing that. Online traffic has risen even as in-person showroom traffic has disappeared. Auto dealers are embracing digital tools to close deals without a handshake and arranging for vehicles to be picked up or delivered without requiring customers to come to their […]

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