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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 Asia15/04/2024

Information technology education in Vietnam tends to focus on breadth rather than depth, so few people can or choose to stay in the field after turning 35. Recently, I came across a reader’s account sharing an interesting perspective. According to this person, IT engineers make thousands of dollars a month and can afford expensive houses and cars […]

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Retail Asia11/12/2023

Nvidia wishes to establish a base in Vietnam to develop the country’s semiconductor industry as it considers the Vietnamese market an important one, the Vietnamese government said, citing the U.S. chipmaker’s chief executive. In his first visit to the Southeast Asian country, Nvidia’s CEO, Jensen Huang, said the company viewed Vietnam as its home and […]

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Retail Asia20/11/2023

Many IT employees are being laid off or forced to quit and struggling to find new jobs due to a decline in demand due to the economic downturn. After a payment project was unexpectedly canceled in July as the company, a big tech brand in HCMC, no longer had the cash to keep it running, […]

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Retail Asia15/09/2023

A gap between IT engineers’ skill levels and market requirements is making 150,000-200,000 of them unemployable every year, a report by IT jobs platform TopDev warns. The recently published “Vietnamese IT market report in 2023” on TopDev says most recruiters look for three types of developers: back end, full-stack (who will build the interface), and […]

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Retail Asia18/01/2023

At over VND25.5 trillion (US$1.09 billion), information and technology accounted for 58% of tech giant FPT’s revenues last year. Pre-tax profits were up 22.2% at VND3.42 trillion, or 45% of total profits. Revenues shot up by 23.4% to VND44 trillion and profits by 20.8% to VND7.6 trillion. Sales in key global markets soared, including 50% […]

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Retail Asia24/11/2022

PC-maker Hewlett Packard on Tuesday said it would layoff as many as 6,000 employees over the next three years as the slumping world economy continues to embroil the US tech sector. HP, which has a payroll of about 61,000 people, said it aimed to secure $1.4 billion in annual savings through 2025 as it followed […]

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Retail Asia19/09/2022

Companies in Vietnam have hired 175,370 information technology staff this year, up 36.2% year-on-year, as the country’s tech sector continues to boom with rising investment, a report has found. Recruitment demand for IT staff is set to exceed 229,000 by 2023 and 290,000 by 2024, said the Vietnam IT Market Report 2022 by recruitment platform […]

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Retail Asia05/09/2022

ZTE Corporation has unveiled the industry’s smallest 5GC product, dubbed the Mini5GC. ZTE’s new Mini5GC features miniaturization, lightweight, simple networking, and ultra-high integration. The company states that it can well facilitate safe production, flexible adjustment of work sites, and efficient and accurate emergency rescue in mining areas. This is part of its continued innovations in […]

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Retail Asia08/02/2022

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SpaceDC, a Singapore-based visionary data center provider, is working with JLL, a global real estate services firm, to build a secure, resilient, network-rich, data center called <MNL1, which will be situated in Cainta, part of Greater Manila. The green data center will be fully powered with renewable energy – wind, geothermal – and is slated […]

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Retail Asia03/02/2022

Google’s VPN feature, part of the Google One service, just received three new features on Android. The new features are: Safe Disconnect enables you to use the internet only when the VPN is active. App Bypass allows you to choose specific apps to use a standard connection rather than the VPN. Snooze allows you to disable your […]

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Retail Asia24/01/2022

Manufacturing and tech companies are rushing to recruit workers as foreign companies show rising interest in setting up or expanding their factories in Vietnam. Electronics manufacturer Jabil Vietnam is recruiting 500 workers in Ho chi Minh City, with a bonus of VND3.3 million ($145.62) promised to each new employee. Other companies in Saigon Hi-Tech Park […]

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Retail Asia12/08/2021

Tata Communications has announced its financial results for the quarter ended 30 June 2021. Consolidated revenue came in at INR 4,103 Crore (USD 556 Mn), growing 0.7% quarter-on-quarter (QoQ), and decreasing 6.8% year-on-year (YoY). This YoY contraction is primarily due to reduction in Voice business and moderation of Collaboration traffic in the Data segment. Consolidated […]

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Retail Asia12/04/2021

The Nepal Telecommunications Authority (NTA), an autonomous telecommunications regulatory body, together with the Civil Aviation Authority of Nepal has approved international airlines to use Nepal’s Internet and telecom services for its passengers. Airlines would need to apply to NTA, on top of obtaining permission from the International Civil Aviation Organisation to tap into internet and telecom […]

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Retail Asia08/04/2021

Nokia and Optus announced that they achieved a record-breaking aggregate site throughput of 10 Gbps during a downlink speed demonstration using 800 MHz of millimeter Wave (mmWave) spectrum at a live 5G site in Brisbane. Powered by Nokia AirScale Radio, the site demonstrates the huge potential of 5G as it is introduced across future spectrum […]

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Retail Asia30/03/2021

Hyundai Motor Company and Singtel today signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) to collaborate on a range of ventures to support smart manufacturing, connectivity for electric vehicle battery subscription service. The MOU follows Hyundai Motor Group’s announcement in October 2020 that it is setting up a new state-of-the-art Hyundai Motor Group Innovation Centre Singapore (HMGICS) […]

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Retail Asia16/03/2021

IT engineers with five years’ experience are getting paid salaries of VND120 million ($5,200) a month amid rising demand for their skills. A software/solutions architect in Ho Chi Minh City earns up to VND160 million while a software engineer gets VND120 million, according to recruitment company Adecco Vietnam. A DevOps engineer, who is responsible for […]

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Retail Asia08/03/2021

Being India’s third-largest telecom operator in the 4G spectrum auctions, Vodafone Idea entered with the largest quantum of spectrum with a very small fraction. “This was administratively allocated and used for GSM services, coming up for renewal,” the company said. With the telecom industry gearing up for the 5G revolution, VI hopes that a large […]

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Retail Asia04/01/2021

Daimler AG and Infosys announced a long-term strategic partnership for a technology-driven IT infrastructure transformation. After the receipt of all regulatory approvals, Daimler AG will transform its IT operating model and infrastructure landscape across workplace services, service desk, data center, networks and SAP Basis together with Infosys. The partnership will enable the company to deepen […]

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Retail Asia04/01/2021

This past Thursday, the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) said that it would stop handling transactions involving the securities of China Mobile, China Unicom and China Telecom. The move by the securities exchange comes after U.S. President Donald Trump, back in November, banned American companies and consumers from investing in 31 outfits that Trump said […]

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Retail Asia19/11/2020

It appears retail stores in Malaysia and Singapore will not be carrying Dell products in the near future. According to an official statement from the company, Dell will “transition out of the retail market in Singapore and Malaysia,” though that doesn’t mean you cannot buy a Dell laptop anymore in these two markets. This news […]

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