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24/04/2024 Puma to launch compostable shoes after a two-year pilot project ( Fashion )
24/04/2024 7-Eleven eyes 100,000 stores globally by 2030 ( General )
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 )
22/04/2024 WhatsApp testing scheduling feature for easier event management in Communities ( General )
22/04/2024 EU set to approve Apple’s plan to open its NFC technology for rivals ( Electronics )
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 )

Retail Asia02/05/2022

The Indian government is all set to launch an Open Network for Digital Commerce to end the dominance of the US-based e-commerce companies like Amazon and Walmart in India. The ONDC platform will let buyers and sellers interact with each other and transact online. The launch of the ONDC platform comes in the wake of […]

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Retail Asia02/05/2022

Chinese tech giant Alibaba is taking Lazada to Europe as part of its strategy to drive growth in overseas countries. It was reported that the plan to expand Lazada to Europe was due to Alibaba’s slowing opportunities in China. The company’s latest interim report published in December 2021 unveiled that its revenue from its China […]

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Retail Asia19/04/2022

E-commerce platform Lazada has grouped 5000 products with sustainability credentials in a new section of its LazMall to encourage shoppers to buy items that are friendly to the planet. The goods, from some 70 brands, mainly span the fashion and FMCG categories and are made, packed, or shipped with reduced plastics, or materials better for […]

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Retail Asia12/04/2022

India’s Tata Group on Thursday launched its much-awaited e-commerce “super app” offering everything from apparel to air tickets in a renewed push for a slice of a fast growing market dominated by Amazon.com and Walmart’s Flipkart. Tata Neu, which has been in the works for about two years, is a single platform for the group’s […]

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Retail Asia06/04/2022

Beauty retailer Sephora has entered the Vietnamese market with a dedicated ecommerce store after an initial trial period of five months. Local customers can now buy directly from Sephora online, but there is no word yet on whether the global brand will open a physical store. About 90% of Vietnam’s cosmetics market is filled with foreign brands, led […]

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Retail Asia29/03/2022

E-commerce and gaming firm Sea said on Monday it is withdrawing from India’s retail market just months after starting operations there, the second pullback this month in an overseas expansion drive, as the loss-making firm faces a weak growth outlook. The withdrawal, effective beginning March 29, comes weeks after its e-commerce arm Shopee said it […]

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Retail Asia24/03/2022

Amazon Singapore has today launched a new mental health benefits package that provides its employees and their families with personalised, convenient, and confidential mental health and well-being support. The new service provides holistic mental well-being support with services such as life coaching, legal and financial support, and mindfulness resources available in addition to the traditional […]

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Retail Asia21/03/2022

The Vietnam Pavilion was launched on Chinese e-commerce platform Alibaba.com Friday to globally promote the country’s products and success stories. The Vietnam Trade Promotion Agency and the tech giant signed a deal for the purpose. Deputy Minister of Industry and Trade Do Thang Hai said the site would be used for advertising and taking Vietnamese […]

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Retail Asia08/03/2022

Google Cloud and Flipkart, India’s homegrown consumer internet ecosystem, have entered into a multi-year strategic partnership to help fast-track Flipkart’s innovation and cloud strategy. This partnership will propel Flipkart into its next phase of growth and advance its vision of onboarding India’s next 200 million shoppers and lakhs of sellers. Working together, Google Cloud will […]

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Retail Asia25/02/2022

Vietnam e-commerce startup OpenCommerce Group has raised $7 million in a Series A funding round led by internet company VNG and venture capital firm Do Ventures. The Hanoi-based company, which provides tech solutions for sellers to create and manage their online stores with no inventory costs required, said it has supported 86,700 small and medium […]

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Retail Asia23/02/2022

Amazon is suing two websites that allegedly used their networks of more than 900,000 users to post fake reviews to e-commerce marketplaces. AppSally and Rebatest operate as “fake review brokers,” Amazon said in an announcement. In AppSally’s case, the website allows merchants to buy Amazon reviews for as little as $20. Rebatest, on the other hand, […]

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Retail Asia23/02/2022

Amazon has done something that Google either couldn’t or subsequently decided not to do. That is to increase the integration between its cloud gaming service and its video platform by making the games on the gaming service directly accessible from the company’s video platform. As first spotted by Vet Cloud Gaming, then shared in a tweet […]

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Retail Asia23/02/2022

According to statistics for Buy2Sell’s Google Analytics in 2021, the platform recorded over half a million visits and 140,000 registered users. In 2020, the platform reached about 400,000 visits and 56,000 registered users. In two years, it has recorded one million hits and more than 200,000 registered users. According to Buy2Sell’s importation data for the […]

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Retail Asia21/02/2022

The global winter sports gear market continues to boom in 2022 thanks to the thrilling Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics and the rising popularity of winter sports around the world. Sales data from AliExpress, a global retail online marketplace under the Alibaba Group, shows a growing demand for winter sports products particularly for the winter sports […]

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Retail Asia15/02/2022

After closing all his stores, veteran fashion designer Tadashi Shoji said he has been able to keep his business afloat during the Covid-19 pandemic thanks to the success of e-commerce and custom sales. The Los Angeles, California-based brand released its digital runway show online on Saturday during New York Fashion Week. Keeping costs low, the […]

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Retail Asia07/02/2022

Online luxury fashion platform Cettire said it has penned a new deal to enter mainland China through a partnership with e-commerce giant JD.com, sending its shares up by more than 21 percent. Mainland China is expected to be the world’s largest market for personal luxury goods by 2025, representing around 25 percent of the $600 […]

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Retail Asia28/01/2022

In light of its proud achievements in 2021, Lazada Vietnam expects more breakthroughs in 2022 to bring more value for their customers and partners. Lazada hit impressive milestones in 2021, with remarkable profits, site traffic and record number of orders and new sellers on the platform, and step-by-step attracted consumers and partners across the country. […]

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Retail Asia20/01/2022

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For entrepreneurs, there are many exciting moments in the journey to celebrate: first product, first sale to a happy customer (who isn’t a family member), first marketing campaign. But entrepreneurship is a daily effort—to build a brand, to expand the business, to attract even more customers. That’s why we’re so passionate about making it easier […]

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Retail Asia03/01/2022

With Covid-19 forcing people to stay at home and spend time online, e-commerce has been thriving. When Tet, the Lunar New Year, was a month and a half away e-commerce platforms had already achieved a strong increase in revenues during their December-12 promotion program. Lazada said sales doubled from the same period in 2020, while […]

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Retail Asia20/12/2021

China’s Alibaba has told its investors that overseas e-commerce would be a key focus as it looks for new sources of growth after a difficult year at home. Earlier this month, Alibaba Group Holding restructured its e-commerce business into separate China and international divisions, with the latter to be led by Jiang Fan, head of Alibaba’s flagship […]

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