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Line Friends has opened a pop-up store at Changi Airport Terminal 3 Departure hall. Set to open until August 8, the store offers the latest summer collections of Line Friends characters featuring Brown, Choco, Sally, Cony and more on one half. The other half…
Luk Fook will add at least 150 stores in Mainland China this year as it looks to mitigate falling sales in Hong Kong. Releasing its results for the financial year to March 31, Luk Fook said profit attributable to shareholders rose 9 percent to HK$1.5 billion…
Global character brand Line Friends opened its second and largest official US store last Saturday. The new Los Angeles store on Hollywood Blvd, which offers interactive photo zones and signature character merchandise, attracted more than 18,000 visitors on…
Visa (NYSE: V), the global payments leader, and LINE Pay Corporation, operator of digital wallet and fintech services on the LINE messaging app, today announced a strategic partnership that will see them create new financial services experiences for their…
LINE FRIENDS, one of the world’s fastest growing global character brands, released the first official episode of ‘BT21 UNIVERSE’ through its official social media channels on April 4. The video immediately went viral among millennials from all around the…
Telenor Group has appointed Irfan Khan, chief of Pakistan unit, as executive vice president and cluster head for the Norwegian telecom group’s emerging Asia operations, effective from April 1, 2019. Khan (pictured) succeeds Petter-Børre Furberg, who will take…
LINE FRIENDS announced that it has formed a strategic partnership with the Chinese IT giant, Xiaomi and will launch the ‘MI9 SE BROWN EDITION’ package under the concept of ‘SUPER MI, SUPER BROWN’ in China on April 9. The first collaboration under the…
Three wins for three vendors plus some quantum security worth a look: Fujitsu Network Communications is helping US-based Midwest Fiber Network with a network upgrade. MFN, which is a consortium of nine RLECs in Iowa, is deploying 200GbE based on Fujitsu’s…
The world’s first Bite & Bite with Line Friends cafe has opened at Hong Kong International Airport. Operated by food and beverage company SSP Hong Kong, the cafe is located on level 7 near gate 201. The cafe combines original Line Friends characters with a…
Vietnam is set to complete four infrastructure projects next year, some of them after long delays lasting several years. Hanoi’s first metro line The 13-kilometer Cat Linh – Ha Dong metro line is expected to open commercial operations before the Tet Lunar New…
The planned Starbucks Tokyo Reserve Roastery will open on February 28 next year. The outlet will launch in the Nakameguro district as the brand’s fifth global Reserve Roastery, designed and constructed in partnership with architect/Kuma Lab founder Kengo…
Nokia has announced it has developed a new metric for measuring the quality and performance of fixed access networks in a standardized way. The Nokia Fixed Access Health Index for service providers uses Nokia’s automation and analytics capabilities to…
Messaging platform Line has partnered with consumer electronics firm Bang & Olufsen to release a Brown-Bear themed speaker. The collaboration attests to the popularity of the chat app within Asia and of its proprietary characters, which are in familiar daily…
South Korean internet service company Naver has invested in Malaysian retail aggregator iPrice. The firm intends to invest an undisclosed amount to fund iPrice’s expansion into the Indonesian market and to improve its platform towards a better user…
Japanese retailer Uniqlo has launched a mobile assistant using Google voice recognition technology to personalise recommendations for customers. The Uniqlo mobile assistant has already undergone significant testing with development partners in Japan, and is…
Line Thailand, a Japanese company that started off as messaging app and has since expanded its services across food delivery to finance, will open its first digital indoor theme park in Bangkok’s Siam Square One on Friday. Line Village Bangkok: The Digital…
