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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…
Spotify will no longer remain one of the few music streaming services in the US not to increase its subscription prices. Just about every other player in the market raised prices in the last year or so, while Spotify benefited from influx of customers that…
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…
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…
Thanh Tung thought his job interview went well and his unemployment would finally end, but he was eventually turned down for the position because he was “too old.” The 37-year-old game artist in Go Vap District, HCMC was laid off at the beginning of the year,…
Tu worked in Japan for two years but left when the devaluing yen lowered the value of his savings, which he intended to use back home in Vietnam He eventually set his eyes on Germany. The reasons were quite simple: Germany was experiencing a lack of labor…
Singapore-based Thomson Medical Group has agreed to buy FV Hospital in Ho Chi Minh City for US$381.4 million in what will be Vietnam’s biggest ever healthcare industry deal. The company, which has operations in Singapore and Malaysia, said in a press release…
Oil and gas giant Petrovietnam has liquidity issues because it has not been able to collect payables of VND23 trillion ($971 million) from state-owned utility Vietnam Electricity. Over VND14 trillion of the amount is past due, and this is having a major…
Calm, the meditation and sleep app with over 4 million users worldwide, has joined forces with Spotify in an unprecedented collaboration. This partnership aims to provide a range of transformative content from Calm to support individuals on their mental…
The transport sector carried over 2.17 billion passengers in the first half of 2023, up 15.9% year-on-year, heard a conference hosted by the Ministry of Transport in Hanoi. In the review period, about 1.10 billion tonnes of goods were transported, up 15.9%…
Spotify aims to connect with their Gen Z Filipino and Indonesian listeners through their new “Music That Finds You” campaign that illustrates the streaming platform’s personalized music discovery services. The campaign, which stars Pinoy hip-hop artists Nik…
Except for E5 RON 92, gasoline and diesel prices have risen by VND70-660 per liter starting 3 p.m. Tuesday. The price of the widely used RON95 went up 0.33% to VND21,490 (91 cents) per liter. Biofuel E5 RON92 decreased by VND60 (0.29%) to VND20,410. Diesel…
The European Chamber of Commerce in Vietnam (EuroCham) has called on the government to focus on long-term plans to mitigate power shortages, which it fears are cyclical. Power shortages were among the concerns raised by EuroCham in its second quarter Business…
Gasoline and diesel prices declined in Vietnam Monday afternoon, following a similar trend globally. The popular RON95 gasoline dropped 2.68% to VND21,420 ($0.91) per litter after staying unchanged in the last two revisions by authorities. Biofuel E5 RON92…
Spotify is working on a new feature that will allow users of its music streaming services to watch and listen to full-length music videos in its app. While the company hasn’t confirmed the information, it’s common for Spotify to thoroughly test new features…
TikTok is bringing one of the features that’s been available since last year, content filtering, to Family Pairing. Ever since the feature was released back in July 2022, the content filtering tool that allows TikTok users to filter out videos with words or…
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