FinTech

KT To Apply Blockchain For Halal Food Authentication

Consumers will be able to use KT's blockchain platform to authenticate whether the food they bought is halal, the telco ... Read more

Samsung Continues Tough Year With Expectations Of Halved Q3 Profits

Samsung's third quarter profits dropped 56% from the previous year due to continued lowered demand for memory chips, but... Read more

APAC Firms Will Need AI As Speed Increasingly Critical In Cyberdefence

With cybercriminals taking less and less time to break into corporate systems, enterprises will have to tap artificial i... Read more

Southeast Asia Internet Economy Exceeds $100B, Online Population Hits 360M

Region's internet economy grows past $100 billion for the first time this year, with Indonesia and Vietnam clocking grow... Read more

Samsung Reorganises Chinese Phone Production

By closing all of its phone factories in China, Samsung will rely more on original device makers to create its phones go... Read more

Singapore Online Falsehoods Law Kicks In With Details On Appeals Process

Passed in May 2019 after a brief debate, the Protection from Online Falsehoods and Manipulation Bill comes into effect f... Read more

South Korean Telcos And Police To Develop Digital Driver Licences

Drivers will soon be able to register their licences on smartphones and it will accepted by police as suitable form of i... Read more

Most Singapore Firms Experienced Data Breach, Worried Over 5G Deployments

Some 96% of companies in the country admit to experiencing a data breach over the past year, with 98% expressing securit... Read more

KT And Hyundai To Deploy 5G Networks Into Construction Sites

KT and Hyundai Engineering & Construction will collaborate to use 5G networks for automation in construction. Read more

Singapore Defence Ministry Runs Second HackerOne Bug Bounty Programme

Dangling bounties ranging from $150 to $10,000, Singapore's Ministry of Defence hopes to uncover vulnerabilities in 11 i... Read more

Have Indian IT Companies Been Gouging H-1B Workers With Low Wages?

While data from various sources may offer diverging views on what H-1Bs have been paid, the sorry fact is that the floor... Read more

Huawei Opens Flagship Store In Shenzhen

In the works since 2017, the Chinese smartphone maker's three-storey flagship store spans 1,300 square meters and is man... Read more

Facebook Unfurls New Measures In Singapore To Curb Elections Interference

Amidst calls from Singapore's law minister for regulations to address foreign interference in local elections, Facebook ... Read more

Intel To Launch 2nd Gen Optane DC Persistent Memory 'Barlow Pass' Next Year

Intel will launch its second generation Optane Data Centre Persistent Memory and SSD, as well as a 144-layer 3D NAND nex... Read more

China Has 'no Timetable' For Digital Currency Launch: People's Bank Of China Governor

Earlier remarks from a Chinese central bank official had indicated that China was ready to launch its own digital curren... Read more