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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 )
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15/04/2024 Tim Cook arrives in Vietnam ( Electronics )
15/04/2024 Vietravel Airlines reports first profits in 3 years ( General )

Retail Asia09/05/2023

Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak, affectionately known as “The Woz,” says that artificial intelligence could make it harder to spot scams. Wozniak says that content created by AI should clearly be labeled as such and that regulation is needed or else bad actors will take control of the technology. Wozniak talked to the BBC about this […]

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Retail Asia24/03/2022

FIFA announces the world’s fastest-growing cryptocurrency platform as a sponsorship partner of this year’s World Cup soccer tournament held in Qatar. Crypto.com will be the exclusive cryptocurrency trading platform sponsor of World Cup Qatar 2022, the Federation Internationale de Football Association (FIFA) announced Tuesday in Zurich, expanding its reach in global sports. The sponsorship includes opportunities for […]

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Retail Asia17/03/2021

The London-headquartered online money transfer service plans to expand its product globally over the next few years to lower the cost of international transactions. Wise has appointed Tan Hooi Ling, co-founder of super app Grab, and Clare Gilmartin, former CEO of digital rail ticketing platform Trainline, to its board as director designates, the company announced in a blog […]

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Retail Asia26/01/2021

Last week we told you that starting on March 31st, Android phones uncertified by Google, including those made by Huawei, will no longer have access to the Google Messages app. While not too many Android handsets are uncertified by Google, Huawei’s newer models are because of its inclusion on the U.S. Commerce Department’s Entity List which […]

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Retail Asia19/01/2021

“The coordination on Covid-19 is horrific,” AirAsia Group Bhd founder and group chief executive officer Tan Sri Tony Fernandes laments and claims in a direct swipe at world governments’ on how the global pandemic has been managed and its impact on the travel and aviation industries. BBC has today quoted Fernandes as saying that in his history […]

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Retail Asia01/12/2020

Tony Hsieh, the former CEO of Zappos, died peacefully and surrounded by family on Friday, according to a statement emailed to CNN by Megan Fazio, a spokesperson for DTP Companies, a Las Vegas-based enterprise for which Hsieh served as the visionary. Hsieh, 46, died from injuries sustained in a house fire that occurred in Connecticut […]

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Retail Asia06/05/2019

In the middle of stress awareness month, Alibaba founder Jack Ma has told his company’s workers they should be working a “996” work schedule – that is from 9am to 9pm, six days a week. According to a speech made this week by Ma, working 12 hours a day for Alibaba was a “blessing” to […]

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Retail Asia23/04/2019

AirAsia, whose website is used by 65 million customers every month, is considering a plan to sell tickets of non-competing carriers on airasia.com, using its size to give online travel agents a run for their money. The Kuala Lumpur-based carrier, Southeast Asia’s largest airline group, which already sells car rentals, accommodation at half a million […]

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Retail Asia19/03/2019

TradeGecko, a leading technology company that provides cloud-based inventory and order management solutions for small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs), today launched its Founder Plan, expanding access to its powerful technology platform to early-stage commerce businesses. The plan enables founders to integrate TradeGecko’s leading inventory and order management solution from the get-go, so that they can build their […]

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Retail Asia18/03/2019

Alibaba founder Jack Ma has stepped back from active roles in five subsidiary companies as he prepares to hand over executive chairmanship of the company in September. Management of Alibaba say the moves were intended to improve the firm’s governance and administrative transparency. Ma has exited Alibaba’s Technology, Education Technology, Taobao Software, Network Technology, and Software departments. […]

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Retail Asia31/01/2019

Brandon Truaxe, the founder of Canadian skincare company Deciem, has died at the age of 40, the firm announced in an Instagram post. Truaxe launched the brand, best known for its affordable skincare line The Ordinary, in Toronto in 2013. Since then it has since expanded worldwide, with stores in the US, the UK, South […]

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Retail Asia03/01/2019

With multiple awards like; Images Coca Cola Golden Spoon Award, India Restaurant Congress Award, Times Nightlife Award and ET Now Business and Service Excellence Award, the consumer and industry has recognized this startup as a blockbuster. Singh is the recipient of the TiECON 2010 Entrepreneurial Award for Excellence and holds the position of the Honorary […]

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Retail Asia12/12/2018

Indonesian unicorn startup Traveloka announced the resignation of its co-founder, Derianto Kusuma, from his position as chief technology officer on Tuesday. Derianto was one of three persons involved in the establishment in February 2012 of the online ticketing and hotel booking service, which has since become one of the leading tech companies in Southeast Asia. […]

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Retail Asia11/12/2018

Ted Baker chief executive and founder Ray Kelvin has taken a voluntary leave of absence after “further serious allegations” around his conduct were brought to light. These allegations were brought to the attention of an independent committee of non-executive directors created to investigate harassment claims made by multiple anonymous staff members that Kelvin had expected them […]

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Retail Asia05/11/2018

Malaysia’s long-haul budget carrier AirAsia X on Thursday appointed Nadda Buranasiri as its new group chief executive officer to take over from its co-founders. Buranasiri, chief executive of the Thai arm of AirAsia X since 2014, will replace co-CEOs and co-founders Tony Fernandes and Kamarudin Meranun with immediate effect, the company said in a statement. […]

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Retail Asia10/01/2017

‘Just propose those projects to me, no matter how bad it is,’ Nguyen Ha Dong writes on Facebook. The overnight success of mobile game Flappy Bird has turned its creator Nguyen Ha Dong into a star of the local startup scene. The game, hailed by the industry as one of the milestones of Vietnam’s startup […]

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Retail Asia15/12/2016

Enterprise Asia, a non-governmental organization based in Malaysia that organizes the Asia Pacific Entrepreneurship Awards (APEA), honored retail pioneer Henry Sy, Sr. with a Lifetime Achievement Award last Dec. 1 at a ceremony held at the Dusit Thani Manila. Sy is the first and only Filipino to receive the Lifetime Achievement Award from Enterprise Asia, which […]

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