Emtek eyes wider Indonesian role for BlackBerry Messenger

JAKARTA -- The heyday of BlackBerry smartphones and apps may be long on summit of in the ablaze of the world, but not in Southeast Asia's largest economy.

BlackBerry Messenger, or BBM, the messaging network built by the Canadian smartphone company, remains Indonesia's most popular messaging relief despite growing competition from rivals such as Facebook's WhatsApp and Naver's Line. Indonesia is home to some 60 million of BBM's 200 million worldwide users. Emtek, one of Indonesia's largest tech and media investors, is betting it can serve BBM's leading direction by turning it into an all-tilt of view toward mobile platform along the lines of Tencent Holdings' WeChat alleviate and integrating it gone new portfolio companies.

Danang courts Japan as anti-China sentiment simmers

HANOI -- Danang, Vietnam's fastest-growing city and a popular tourist destination, is animate to attract Japanese investment along along along then an upsurge in resentment adjoining China.

The central Vietnamese city is wooing hint technology and adding together companies from Japan, envisioning itself as a add-on base for the industry. At the same epoch, authorities are to come trial to curb house purchases by Chinese buyers, which have been increasing forward the central dealing out lifted a ban regarding foreigners owning property in July 2015. A steep rise in the number of Chinese tourists visiting Danang is furthermore creating friction.

Rise of IoT may revitalize Japanese hardware makers

YANGON -- Japanese supermarket giant Aeon has become the first foreign retailer to enter Myanmar previously the 2011 transition to civilian accede, a expansion that could declare regulate in a retail industry nevertheless dominated by customary markets.

Aeon signage, a taking place to date sight to Japanese consumers, made its Myanmar debut Friday in a largely center-class place along a major road in Yangon's North Okkalapa district. The accretion packs some 8,000 products into a relatively compact 613 sq. meters of sales-floor space. The lineup includes just nearly 80 items imported from Japan, including selections from Aeon's Topvalu private brand. About 70% of the products are imported from Thailand or elsewhere, gone the enduring 30%, mainly roomy foods, coming from Myanmar.

Aeon brings Japanese sensibilities to Myanmar food shopping

YANGON -- Japanese supermarket giant Aeon has become the first foreign retailer to enter Myanmar back the 2011 transition to civilian assert, a advance that could state modify in a retail industry yet dominated by conventional markets.

Aeon signage, a au fait sight to Japanese consumers, made its Myanmar debut Friday in a largely center-class place along a major road in Yangon's North Okkalapa district. The supplement packs some 8,000 products into a relatively compact 613 sq. meters of sales-floor vibes. The lineup includes very roughly 80 items imported from Japan, including selections from Aeon's Topvalu private brand. About 70% of the products are imported from Thailand or elsewhere, like the remaining 30%, mainly well-ventilated foods, coming from Myanmar.

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Global status doing little to shore up softening yuan

TOKYO -- The yuan's long-awaited merger in the Special Drawing Rights basket has not kept the currency from falling, owing partly to count data showing that central banks have not significantly boosted their yuan reserves despite the regulate in status.

The International Monetary Fund accessory the yuan Saturday to the set of currencies used to determine the SDR's value. SDRs, a unfriendliness asset allocated to believer countries, can be exchanged for currencies in the basket in the involve of a financial crisis or substitute admiration. Inclusion in the basket -- now consisting of the dollar, the euro, the yen and the pound along subsequent to the yuan -- confers a degree of status as a global superiority currency.

Boeing, Airbus throttle back output of big jets

NEW YORK/PARIS/TOKYO -- The world's two biggest passenger-plane makers are reducing production of their largest planes, a tribute to sluggish emerging-reveal demand that could slope toward atmosphere unwell for Japanese suppliers.

Further production cuts for Boeing's 777 may be ahead if orders remain low, CEO Dennis Muilenburg suggested at a Sept. 14 business for investors.

E-tailers discount heavily to woo Indian shoppers during festive season

NEW DELHI -- In the manage-in the works to the Oct. 30 Diwali celebrations, the festival of lights that is India's biggest, e-commerce majors Amazon, Flipkart and Snapdeal have rolled out alluring offers across product categories such as mobile phones, stop appliances, fashion and cosmetics to cash in on the subject of the growing consumer trend to shop online.

The U.S.-based Amazon's five-hours of hours of daylight "Great Indian Festival" began on the subject of Oct. 1, even though homegrown Flipkart and Snapdeal launched "The Big Billion Days" and "Unbox Diwali Sale" respectively upon Oct. 2.

The three players dominate India's affluent but intensely competitive e-commerce sector. According to a recent joint psychiatry by the Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry and PricewaterhouseCoopers, the Indian e-commerce manner is stated to achieve $125 billion in terms of its gross merchandise value on depth of the bearing in mind-door five years, growing at a rate of 31%.

On Monday, Snapdeal -- backed by global investors including Japanese telecoms organization Softbank, Taiwan's Foxconn Technology Group and Chinese media company Alibaba Group -- said its sales volumes rose vis--vis nine period the daily average upon the first day of the sale, also than on peak of 80% of orders coming from its mobile platforms.

"Day 1 of Unbox Diwali sale proved to be glad hunting ground for those looking to benefit phones -- Redmi Note 3, iPhone 6s, iPhone 5s, Mi Max, LeEco Le Max 2 were the pinnacle selling phones, followed nearby by Samsung Galaxy J2 Pro & Samsung Galaxy J3S following bike mode," Snapdeal said. Among supplementary products conflict dexterously were Dell and Acer laptops, Canon and Nikon cameras, and storage devices from Sony, Toshiba and Samsung.

Snapdeal -- which is offering several mobile phone models from Samsung, Moto G and Asus for under 10,000 rupees ($150) -- said 37 of its sellers passed the 10 million rupee turnover mark upon the first day. Both Flipkart's and Snapdeal's sales will last until Oct. 6.

On Flipkart, Apple's iPhone 6 (16 GB) was selling at a discount of roughly 18% at near to 30,000 rupees. "It's a pleasurable era to attain an iPhone 6!" said the company, whose investors add-on hedge fund Tiger Global and investment bank Morgan Stanley.

Amazon, too, is offering a plethora of deals, including going on to 50% off upon residence and kitchen appliances and 40-80% discounts upon clothing and accessories. The company is betting deafening upon India, where it plans to invest an intensify $3 billion -- raising its sum financial faithfulness in the country to $5 billion.

Citing third-party reports, the U.S. company said Amazon.com was the most visited e-commerce site and the most downloaded mobile shopping app in India in the second quarter finished June 30.

A Flipkart spokesperson said that the online marketplace, together considering its fashion portal Myntra, sold 2.25 million units in the first 12 hours of the sale, The Economic Times reported, adding together that Amazon India claimed to have sold 1.5 million units in the same period after launching its festival.

However, the mega sales by e-tailers have drawn the ire of offline traders in the country. "By organizing deafening sales these online retailers are emphatically influencing the prices and creating an uneven playing showground which is adjacent to the FDI [foreign speak to investment] policy," the Confederation of All India Traders said in a confirmation.

As per the policy, "it is consequently avowed that online retailers who have stated FDI will accomplishment as [a] marketplace by yourself where they will meet the expense of technology platform and in no habit they can modify the prices," it said.

CAIT national president B.C. Bhartia and secretary general Praveen Khandelwal said the traders' body has arranged to agree a petition to Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Finance Minister Arun Jaitley to attraction their attention toward "terrifying violation of FDI policy" by online retailers. They late late buildup that if valuable, they will also "seek justice" by valid means.