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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 Asia28/02/2024

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TikTok starts to remove Universal Music Publishing Group content from the pest-like short video app, as no new licensing agreement with the music label has been reached, the social media firm said. TikTok has also started to mute videos on its platform that feature songs written by any songwriter signed on to UMPG (Universal Music […]

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Retail Asia27/02/2024

In 2018, Netflix stopped accepting payments for new subscriptions through the App Store, forcing new subscribers and those returning after a brief hiatus to pay Netflix through its website. It has been six years since Netflix allowed such subscribers to pay for their service through the App Store. This way, Netflix could avoid paying Apple its 15% to […]

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Retail Asia18/09/2023

Google likes to fool around with YouTube like a person who can’t stop scratching an itch. Unlike changes made to Google Maps that are helpful, some of the changes made to YouTube appear to be done for no real reason. Recently, the web version of the video stream moved from square corners to rounded corners […]

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Retail Asia28/08/2023

Once Netflix started its plan to crack down on password-sharing in May, the video streamer started to add new subscribers. A report in BroadbandTV News cited stats from Antenna which revealed that after a 12.9% decline in the number of gross additions to its U.S. subscriber list in April, Netflix saw that figure rise 27.8% in May and […]

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Retail Asia25/07/2023

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Netflix announced today that it is adding a new feature to its popular mobile phone app. Called My Netflix, this is a one-stop shop for both iOS and Android users that features shortcuts to help you find something to stream on the platform. The new My Netflix Hub will show you the content you recently […]

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Retail Asia25/07/2023

Despite the social network bleeding users, Twitter’s owner, Elon Musk, took some questionable decisions over the weekend. After rebranding Twitter’s logo to “X” and promising to bring a bunch of new features that no one asked for, Musk’s is now facing another big problem: the stiff competition. Meta’s attempt to take on Twitter hasn’t been entirely successful, as Threads […]

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Retail Asia21/07/2023

Netflix had a lot of info to share with investors this week. We’ve already reported that the streaming service decided to axe its Basic plan in the UK and US, but it looks like there’s even more interesting information that Netflix revealed in its recent letter to shareholders. After banning account sharing in the United States back in […]

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Retail Asia20/07/2023

Netflix is going ahead with its strategy to completely remove the Basic plan to force customers into choosing more expensive plans or ads. Back in June, Netflix quietly removed the Basic tier in Canada, a move that was expected to extend to other regions in the coming months. Earlier today, Cord Busters noticed that that the Basic […]

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Retail Asia25/05/2023

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Netflix promised to take drastic measures to prevent customers from sharing their passwords. Today, the first step toward making people pay extra if they want to share their Netfix subscription with others has been made. If you have a Netflix subscription and live in the US, you should get an email containing updates on sharing […]

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Retail Asia13/04/2023

YouTube Premium, the Google pay service to watch YouTube videos without ads, has become available in Vietnam, starting at a price of VND49,000 ($2.09) a month. Google’s initial offering of YouTube Premium services has been available only to select customers from Wednesday, before the mass rollout begins next week. The monthly subscription fee for individuals […]

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Retail Asia11/04/2023

YouTube Premium offers features such as ad-free YouTube and YouTube Music and the ability to keep both services running in the background instead of closing down when you open another app. The premium version of YouTube and YouTube Music also allows subscribers to download content to play at another time, possibly when there is no […]

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Retail Asia28/02/2023

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An official said that providers of cross-border over-the-top (OTT) television services such as Netflix and iQiYi will be blocked and sanctioned if they do not establish legal entities in Vietnam. “If a cross-border OTT television service provider does not have a legal entity in Vietnam, the Ministry of Information and Communications will coordinate with telecommunications […]

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Retail Asia10/02/2023

After announcing its plan to prevent its customers from sharing their accounts with friends and family, Netflix started to trial new changes to password sharing in several countries from Latin America, including Chile, Costa Rica, Peru, Argentina, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, and the Dominican Republic. Earlier this week, Netflix announced that the changes to account sharing revealed […]

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Retail Asia13/01/2023

Are you excited for the impending arrival of HBO’s hugely anticipated “The Last of Us” series based on the massively popular video game of the same name? Did you miss the glorious second season of Mike White’s “The White Lotus” and want to see what all that hype (and those awards) are about… eventually? Your […]

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Retail Asia09/01/2023

After a news report back in November said that the new Netflix “Basic with Ads” service tier was off to a slow start, the company denied that the ad-supported service was failing to meet expectations. The streamer’s co-CEO Ted Sarandos said at a conference last month, “Advertising for us is ‘crawl, walk, run.’ We just […]

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Retail Asia23/12/2022

Netflix has been trying to limit the use of password sharing since 2019 when its researchers informed the higher-ups that this is a major concern for the service’s revenues. However, Netflix’s willingness to stop the problem took a pause when COVID-19 started to spread worldwide. Now that the pandemic is over and because Netflix’s market share […]

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Retail Asia21/12/2022

According to data released by Antenna, Netflix’s new ad-supported monthly service is not off to such a great start. The lower-priced service launched on November 3rd and for the month, the “Basic with Ads” plan was responsible for only 9% of U.S. sign-ups in November. Last month, 0.1% of existing Netflix subscribers switched from another plan to the […]

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Retail Asia16/12/2022

While browsing YouTube’s comment section, you might find some offensive comments. And to battle spammers and users using abusive language, the platform has improved its spam detection and bot detection in live chats and added a new feature In a new blog post, YouTube announced that its new feature notifies users when the platform has detected […]

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Retail Asia20/10/2022

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The latest development in Netflix’s plans to dissuade account sharing has surfaced via a quarterly earnings letter. It reveals extra charges for each separate user on the account of the owner, that isn’t from the same household, starting 2023. While the final rates have not been officially announced, what we can infer from the document is […]

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Retail Asia20/10/2022

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After losing its dominance over the video streaming space, it appears that Netflix is ready to embark on a new venture and try to succeed where Google failed. Simply put, Netflix will try to enter the cloud gaming space as well. As Netflix VP of Gaming Mike Verdu revealed at TechCrunch Disrupt, the streaming giant is “seriously exploring […]

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