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Retail Asia22/04/2022

Sick of seeing only TikToks on Reels? So is Instagram. On a more serious note, Instagram is tweaking its algorithm not only to crack down on reposts but also to incentivize creators to produce original content. Adam Mosseri, the current head of Instagram, announced yesterday some interesting changes coming to the social media platform. In […]

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Retail Asia01/09/2021

Australia Post has announced its group revenue of $7.499 million, a new record up seven percent, and a profit before tax of $53.6 million. The Group credits its revenue was boosted by further eCommerce growth during COVID-19. Growth in e-commerce has been a strong driver behind Australia’s Post 2020 financial result that was released on […]

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Retail Asia19/04/2021

TikTok has been seeking more advertisers for the global and U.S. versions of the short-form video app. As a result, the company has been meeting with potential advertising partners while carrying a B2B pitch book for its TikTok for Business unit. As you might imagine, the pitch deck reveals information about TikTok designed to show […]

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Retail Asia06/02/2020

Instagram is one of the many social services that allows its users to add GIFs to their posts, but that’s where anything GIF-related stops. Let’s say your friend posts an animated sticker in stories and you wish to reply with a GIF. Well, that’s not possible, or at least it wasn’t until today. Earlier today, […]

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Retail Asia07/01/2020

Hong Kong Post will roll out more than one new iPostal station every week this year, to boost services to online shoppers. The company will build 20 iPostal stations in the first quarter of this year and more than 80 by the end of the year, which will take the iPostal station network to more […]

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Retail Asia24/12/2019

Instagram prides itself on actively fighting against bullying through numerous features that prevent people from trolling and/or shaming users of the social network. Instagram announced yet another feature that’s meant to prevent users from posting messages that could be considered offensive. Several months ago, Instagram launched a tool that notifies people when their comments may be considered […]

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Retail Asia20/11/2019

New Zealand Post has revealed it may have underpaid up to 22,000 staff since 2010, and is setting aside $38 million to repay any lost holiday pay. “It’s too early to say who exactly may be impacted, but some scenarios that typically result in underpayments are those employees who earn regular overtime or have variable […]

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Retail Asia29/08/2019

Japan’s Internal Affairs and Communications Ministry has accepted a proposal from a government panel to end Saturday delivery for standard mail in the country due to a labor shortage at Japan Post Co. and a drop in demand because of increased use of the internet. The ministry will seek to amend the law this fall, […]

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Retail Asia28/08/2019

Australia Post has announced the trial of a new Australian-built three-wheeled electric delivery vehicle. Built in Melbourne’s south-eastern suburbs, the new Stealth OzPOD will service residents in the suburb of Lilydale over a five-week period, as Australia Post tests its features over different terrains in a bid to complement existing electric vehicles in operational use. […]

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Retail Asia19/07/2019

Instagram has just confirmed it will bring ads to your Explore feed. As one of the go-to features for Instagram users who search for places, shops and connect with people businesses and creators, Explore looks like a great monetization tool. According to Instagram, more than 50% accounts on its social network use Explore every month to see photos […]

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Retail Asia26/09/2018

Kasikornbank (KBank) and Thailand Post, a state-owned enterprise, yesterday sealed a business deal that saw one of the country’s biggest banks appoint the postal operator as a banking agent. KBank became the first of the large banks to enter such an arrangement with Thailand Post. “We aim to service 250,000 online vendors across the country […]

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Retail Asia19/06/2018

Thailand Post is to add e-commerce to its logistics services, offering locally made products from across the country. From the fourth quarter, the enterprise will pilot exports of community-made products to Japan by collaborating with Japanese online marketplaces. The move aims to capitalise on cross-border e-commerce to compete with Chinese internet giants dumping their products […]

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Retail Asia30/04/2018

Facebook will this week begin demoting news feed posts from people and pages that use clickbaiting to get greater reach. In what it describes as an effort to promote more meaningful and authentic conversations on the platform, Facebook staff have detected different types of clickbaiting – or in social media lingo, “engagement baiting” – to […]

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Retail Asia17/08/2017

Australia Post is looking to draw a line under concerns that retailers are finding it increasingly hard to compete with the scale of global competitors, announcing a partnership with fintech company AlphaPaymentsCloud that promises to bring traders an integrated service platform. Incorporating everything from payments and identification to logistics, loyalty and fraud protection, Australia Post […]

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Retail Asia13/07/2017

Ex-Blackmores chief, Christina Holgate, has today been announced as the new chief of Australia Post effective from October, after a ‘global search that identified her as the outstanding candidate’ to lead the company in its transformation program. Holgate will be the corporation’s next managing director and group CEO, and succeeds the departing Ahmed Fahour who […]

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Retail Asia14/03/2017

In recent years, Hong Kong has witnessed a rise in the number of postal items addressed in traditional Chinese characters. This has in turn boosted the need for automated sorting and processing of addresses written in traditional Chinese characters in addition to those handwritten or printed in English. This new function has been introduced to […]

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Retail Asia15/12/2016

With the pre-Christmas rush at its peak, a serpentine network of conveyor belts at Singapore Post’s new logistics centre moves parcels destined for addresses across the world in time for the festive season. It is a scene repeated in sorting offices around the globe in December, the busiest time of the year for postal firms […]

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Retail Asia13/02/2016

The Hong Kong stock market saw the worst post-Lunar New Year session in 22 years on Thursday, a day after U.S. Federal Reserve chair Janet Yellen confirmed fears of a global slowdown in her testimony to Congress. Yellen raised the likelihood that U.S. interest rate hikes will be put on hold and possibly even cut […]

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Retail Asia13/09/2015

A man walks past red postboxes outside the Thailand Post branch at Government House. The booming e-commerce market has spurred greater demand for the state enterprise’s express parcel service, despite continued issues with mishandled packages. CHANAT KATANYU Thailand Post expects to maintain its stellar profit growth of 10% and reach 2 billion baht this year, […]

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Retail Asia14/06/2015

Warakan Srinualnad, chief executive officer of Thailand Post Distribution, said yesterday that the company aimed for Bt400 million in revenue in 2015 and expected to keep growing at 10 per cent per year. The company will expand to cover the whole Indochina region by 2017. The main target customers include providers of medicines and medical […]

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