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26/04/2024 Changi Airport Group awards OUE tender for lease and development of new hotel at Changi Airport Terminal 2 ( General )
26/04/2024 Korean Air to launch new route to Macau ( General )
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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 )
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Retail Asia05/04/2023

Waze is launching two new features at the same time this month, which is a little bit unusual for the navigation app. I know everyone is used to getting a new driving experience almost every month, this time around Waze is bringing more than just a fun way to spend your time while driving. The […]

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Retail Asia22/02/2022

WhatsApp has been working quite hard on improving the user experience in the app amidst all its rising rivals such as Signal and Telegram. Now, the app is working on a redesigned user interface for voice calls for iPhones, a feature that’s currently rolling out to WhatsApp beta testers on iOS. For a while now, WhatsApp […]

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Retail Asia15/10/2021

Waze has been putting out a lot of new themes for its users all over the world, but the new experience released this week is aimed at US users only. Thanks to a partnership with Goodyear, Waze is bringing its users the College Football experience beyond the stadium to the roads. Although it will only be available […]

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Retail Asia11/03/2021

At a country-level, Singapore won in all metrics tested, with the most important win being the highest Excellent Consistent Quality in South East Asia, with 84.5% of connections having a network experience suitable for use-cases like 1080p video streaming, real-time mobile gaming and HD video calling. Singapore also had the highest Core Consistent Quality in […]

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Retail Asia18/09/2020

7-Eleven has collaborated with Coca-Cola to launch a crossover experience store in Singapore. Located at the House of Eden, the store spans two stories and is dressed in Coca-Cola’s signature red. Behind the floor-to-ceiling glass windows, a giant ‘Coca-Cola Splash Tree’ and beverage cooler signify this store is something different from the typical convenience store. […]

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Retail Asia03/08/2020

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Luxury fashion label Burberry has teamed with technology giant Tencent to launch its first social retail store in Shenzhen, China. Located in the new Shenzhen Bay MixC development, the Burberry social store features a unique design with a variety of materials and textures ranging from plywood to mirror and high-gloss finishes. Occupying a 539sqm area, […]

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Retail Asia28/01/2020

Visitors to the launch enjoyed a 360-degree view of Gunung Machinchang, one of the island’s most popular mountains and tourist destinations, using a cable car gondola and a virtual reality (VR) experiential zone. A camera that was installed at the Langkawi Skycab middle station enabled the event to be live-streamed from 20 kilometers away. The […]

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Retail Asia03/12/2019

Singapore’s first Asus Experience Store has opened on the third level of Bugis Junction. The 3000sqft concept area contains three separate areas: a Republic of Gaming-branded store for gaming equipment, the main showcase space for laptops and peripherals and an assistance centre for service and technical advice. The gaming store contains a six-station gaming network […]

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Retail Asia29/10/2019

New York-based creative agency School House has partnered with cosmetics brand La Mer for its Edge of the Sea campaign exhibition at Shanghai’s Power Station of Art. The immersive, multi-sensory campaign activation is “designed to explore the joyful, powerfully truthful story of the sea and its role in discovery, healing and recollection,” according to School […]

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Retail Asia21/10/2019

Zalora, Asia’s leading online fashion destination partnered with FarEye, a SaaS platform for visibility, to improve its logistics operations and help ZALORA achieve cost-effective deliveries. As one of the region’s largest and fastest-growing fashion e-commerce companies, it is important for ZALORA to optimize its operations to satisfy the growing volume of orders in the region […]

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Retail Asia13/08/2019

Indian e-commerce platform Flipkart has opened a physical furniture experience centre in Bengaluru. The Walmart-owned firm’s 1800sqft store will retail around nine furniture brands, and is likely to be followed by two more similar outlets in the country. “The furniture category has traditionally had a strong presence offline,” said VP of furniture, electronics and private […]

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Retail Asia25/06/2019

Alibaba Group has launched this year’s 618 Mid-year Shopping Festival from Taobao and Tmall, allowing brands and merchants to tap into China’s less-developed regions with 1.5 million new products and multiple promotions. This year’s festival aims to engage customers in emerging cities, counties and villages across China. To do so, Taobao and Tmall are boosting […]

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Retail Asia04/06/2019

Nine out of 10 customers say a bad experience with a company impacts their future buying decisions, with 42 percent saying it stops them buying from a brand altogether, according to new research by customer service software company Zendesk. The firm’s Quantifying the Business Impact of Customer Service in Australia Report found that companies that fail to […]

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Retail Asia21/05/2019

Why a personalised and convenient engagement with shoppers is critical in online stores. Consumers are expecting more personalised and convenient experiences from retailers and brands in the B2B space. Research shows 58 per cent of online shoppers expect retailers to provide a more personalised user experience while 64 per cent of consumers have purchased online […]

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Retail Asia16/05/2019

Thai property developer and the operator of Central Phuket shopping centre, CPN, has celebrated a new luxury zone with the launch of a range of world-class brands. The company says the new stores are being introduced in line with “the rapid growth and high demand of the affluent world tourist market in support of Thailand’s […]

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Retail Asia15/05/2019

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Supermarket retailer Walmart has launched a new technology called Intelligent Retail Lab (IRL) that allows it to monitor its physical stores more efficiently and keep costs under control. The retail giant is testing this new technology, which includes artificial intelligence-enabled cameras, interactive displays and a massive data centre, in its 50,000-square-foot neighborhood market grocery store […]

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Retail Asia14/05/2019

Remember when there was all that concern about the Qualcomm Snapdragon 810 SoC overheating? The fear was so real that Samsung decided to power the Galaxy S6 line with its own Exynos 7420 chipset, even in the U.S. where it usually equips its phones with a Snapdragon chip. Some manufacturers started using small (.6mm) heat pipes […]

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Retail Asia06/05/2019

Hyundai Department Store has opened its first ever downtown duty free store on top of its flagship in Seoul, South Korea. The 14,250sqm outlet was designed by JHP after an international design competition to help them integrate the duty free shopping experience into the city. It offers three floors of shopping for a selection of […]

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Retail Asia30/04/2019

Winning Group chief executive John Winning credits “good old-fashioned customer service” with delivering what he says was the biggest month in Winning Appliance’s 113-year history. According to the CEO, March sales were up 42 per cent on last year’s written sales, and same-store sales were up 32 per cent on the same period last year. […]

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Retail Asia30/04/2019

AirAsia has formalised a deal to become the Brisbane Broncos’ official airline, along with promotions held at every Broncos home game and special discounts for fans. The deal is centred around the launch of the new ‘The Buck Stops Here’ campaign, to celebrate AirAsia the airline’s new services from Brisbane to Bangkok, which are set […]

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