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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 Asia23/06/2023

Casetify is embarking on a massive retail expansion as it works towards its goal of becoming a $1 billion company. Casetify, which is known for its customizable tech accessories like phone and laptop cases, is on track to open 100 stores by 2025. This is a significant step up from Casetify’s existing 28 locations, all […]

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Retail Asia03/02/2023

Hoang Tu said his “American Dream” lasted only six months. He was let go from Google two days before the Lunar New Year. “This is the worst Tet (Lunar New Year) of my life,” he said. The 27-year-old joined Google’s new project development team in Silicon Valley last year after passing a series of rigorous interviews. This Tet, […]

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Retail Asia28/11/2022

Six takeaways from the most-updated nationwide report reveal what IT professional salaries and expectations in 2022-2023 look like. Designed to address and understand the multifaceted IT job market with tons of “rosy myths” about salary and tasks, “Salary & Job Expectation of IT Professionals in Vietnam 2022-2023” builds on a detailed analysis of 1,257 IT […]

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Retail Asia27/05/2022

From 31 May to 3 June, Singapore is hosting Asia Tech x Singapore (ATxSG), Asia’s flagship technology event that convenes global leaders and decision-makers across the technological ecosystem to debate and address opportunities and challenges as the world taps into the potential of digital to power the next bound of global economic growth while building […]

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Retail Asia27/05/2022

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China’s economy has been battered by the fallout from strict COVID-19 curbs including lockdowns and transport restrictions that have kept consumers home, pushed up unemployment, and tangled supply chains. Alibaba has also had to contend with a wide-ranging regulatory crackdown on alleged anti-competitive practices by China’s tech giants. The Hangzhou-based group cited “macro challenges that […]

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Retail Asia29/04/2022

Ferrari said on Tuesday it would partner with Qualcomm Technologies to use the San-Diego based group’s premium product, the Snapdragon chipsets, to accelerate the sports carmaker digital transformation. The deal will involve both its road cars and its Formula One racing team and the first common projects, including the so-called digital cockpit, have been already […]

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Retail Asia01/04/2022

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Swiss Re and Chinese tech group Baidu are teaming up to help advance autonomous driving, the Swiss reinsurer said on Friday. Swiss Re will provide risk management expertise and insurance products for Baidu’s autonomous driving business, it said without giving any financial terms. “This partnership will advance risk management research and insurance protection for autonomous […]

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Retail Asia23/03/2022

The tax department has set up a website for collecting tax from foreign companies to make it easier for tech giants like Facebook and Google to fulfill their duties. The Portal of the General Department of Taxation for Foreign Providers (etaxvn.gdt.gov.vn) came online Monday for companies to declare their tax and track their payments. Until […]

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Retail Asia17/03/2022

Vietnam taxed cross-border platforms like Google and Facebook some VND5 trillion ($218.53 million) in 2008-2021, Finance Minister Ho Duc Phoc informed lawmakers Wednesday. During the four-year period, Facebook was taxed VND1.69 trillion, Google, VND1.62 trillion, and Microsoft, VND577 billion, Phoc said. Last year, Vietnam earned VND1.32 trillion from taxing cross-border platforms, up 15 percent from […]

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Retail Asia24/09/2021

The tech-enabled coffee chain, Flash Coffee, is accelerating its Asian expansion plan, making its Hong Kong debut this month and committing to opening its first stores in Japan and South Korea later this year. Launched last year, Flash Coffee already operates more than 100 locations across Indonesia, Thailand, Singapore, Taiwan and Hong Kong. The chain […]

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Retail Asia22/09/2021

DBS continues to add tech talent with plans to hire around 150 related positions via a virtual hackathon. DBS will hire for around 150 technology positions through a virtual hackathon, Hack2Hire, an annual program in its fourth edition, according to a statement. The positions will be for 14 developer and engineering roles across artificial intelligence […]

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Retail Asia21/09/2021

UBS’s $10 billion China Opportunity fund caught in the downdraft of the country’s harsh tech crackdown. It was only last April that Bin Shi gave a fireside chat on a UBS asset management hosted website. The bank’s head of China equities appeared optimistic about the outlook for Chinese equities, saying it was likely the tech sector had seen the […]

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Retail Asia18/05/2021

Indonesia headquartered on-demand multi-service platform and digital payment technology group Gojek and e-commerce platform Tokopedia have completed Indonesia’s largest-ever deal to create GoTo, Southeast Asia’s largest privately held technology firm. Amid growing competition among e-commerce platforms and super-apps, Gojek and Tokopedia giants have merged to form a multi-billion dollar company that will span e-commerce, e-payments, courier […]

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Retail Asia05/05/2021

Technology continues to play a dominant role in the development of financial services in Singapore with related functions accounting for more than a quarter of job opportunities in the sector. Technology will continue to lead hiring demand in 2021, according to the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS), with 1,700 hiring opportunities such opportunities within the financial sector. This accounts […]

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Retail Asia16/12/2020

India’s HCL Technologies, set to enter Vietnam next month, plans to hire more than 3,000 people for its operations in the country. HCL Vietnam will deploy advanced technology solutions for multinational businesses in a number of line departments in sectors like banking, financial service, healthcare, infrastructure, engineering and network security, the company said. “Starting with […]

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Retail Asia26/10/2020

Deutsche Bank is reportedly in advanced talks to sell its technology services unit to India’s Tata Consultancy Services. Tata Consultancy Services – Asia’s biggest software exporter and the tech subsidiary of Indian conglomerate Tata group – could take over Deutsche Bank’s Postbank Systems, according to a «Bloomberg» report citing unnamed sources. There are expectations for a deal […]

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Retail Asia17/03/2020

Financial technology, alongside other developments, helped boost Hong Kong’s ranking as a tech innovation hub to tenth place worldwide in the latest KPMG survey. Hong Kong’s ranking improved from 12th place last year, according to the KPMG report which surveyed 800 global leaders from the tech industry from 12 countries, including 110 respondents from China. In […]

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Retail Asia09/03/2020

A judge has ruled against a lawsuit filed by Huawei in the US relating to a ban on government personnel using the company’s devices. Huawei filed the lawsuit on the basis that the ban was “unconstitutional” back in 2018. Since then, Huawei has faced increased US-led scrutiny globally over claims the company is controlled by Beijing – […]

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Retail Asia06/03/2020

The soon-to-be-launched Hyundai Creta will now come with the company’s Blue Link connected car technology. Slated to be launched on March 17, the second-gen Creta will be the third Hyundai car to get the Blue Link system, after the Venue and Elantra facelift. And while the other two only got up to 34 connectivity features, the […]

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Retail Asia15/01/2020

Malaysia’s AirAsia Group says it will co-found a tech-training facility with Silicon Valley giant Google, as Southeast Asia’s biggest budget carrier by fleet continues its push to become a technology-led company. AirAsia Group President Aireen Omar told the Nikkei Asian Review that fresh tech talent would play a vital role in developing new businesses within the group […]

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