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Market News: Vanke and Baidu Launch Cross-Industry Partnership

Vanke, mainland China’s largest property developer, announced a strategic partnership with Baidu to explore introducing LBS technology at its community retail developments, lifestyle plazas and shopping centres. The company planned to use big data to analyse spending behaviour and improve the customer experience.

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Exhibitions and iBeacon Indoor Navigation

With Taipei’s annual international computer exhibition opening next week, the Computex Taipei 2014 app uses iBeacon indoor positioning to offer a fun treasure hunt and help visitors find booths that interest them. The article suggests that a similar indoor navigation app could also make visits easier for readers at the Hong Kong Book Fair 2014.

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Exhibitions and iBeacon Indoor Navigation

Opening next week, Computex Taipei features an app that uses iBeacon indoor positioning to offer a fun treasure hunt and help visitors find booths that interest them. A similar indoor navigation app could also make the Hong Kong Book Fair 2014 easier to explore.

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The Much-Anticipated iPhone6: What Will It Look Like?

A video on YouTube shows an iPhone6 that resembles earlier iPhones, with more rounded corners and a larger overall size. With reports suggesting a September 2014 unveiling, what will the iPhone6 actually look like?

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The Much-Anticipated iPhone 6: What Will It Look Like?

A short YouTube video shows an iPhone 6 that resembles previous models, with more rounded corners and a larger body. Reports suggest Apple will unveil it in September 2014. Let’s wait and see!

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F&B takes bite at mobile apps market

Food and beverage chains PastaMania and Pizza Hut tap growing mobile-savvy consumer base, launching apps that allow customers to make home delivery orders via their smartphones. Efforts will stretch customer reach and generate new revenue, say company execs. To better leverage and engage with the growing community of mobile-savvy consumers, food and beverage (F&B) companies

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App Review : SodaCard App

A 2014 review describing SodaCard’s check-in rewards, participating Hong Kong venues, app experience and bilingual design at the time.

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How the Beauty Industry Can Use Mobile Apps for Marketing

A shopping app alone is not enough to keep consumers engaged with a beauty brand. Drawing on L’Oréal Paris’s Color Genius app, this article explores how useful features such as nail polish colour matching, makeup tutorials and makeup previews can help consumers remember a brand while promoting its products.

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How the Beauty Industry Can Use Mobile Apps for Marketing

A shopping app alone is not enough to keep consumers engaged with a beauty brand. Using L’Oréal Paris’s Color Genius as an example, this article explains how useful features such as nail polish colour matching, makeup tutorials and makeup previews can attract users and help them remember a brand.

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App Review : My Observatory – The Hong Kong Observatory App

A 2014 review of MyObservatory’s weather alerts, multilingual audience and design as the article described the app at the time.

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App Review : Open Rice

A 2013 review of OpenRice’s restaurant discovery, user reviews, location search and advertising features as described at the time.

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Why your company need a mobile app

The surviving post is an infographic about mobile app usability, business enrollment, workplace use, custom branding and offline data access.

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