FinTech

Cork Teenagers Microplastics Project Wins $50,000 At Google Science Fair

An Irish teenager has gained attention on the world stage by winning an international science competition for his proje... Read more

Singapore Autonomous Shuttle Buses To Start Picking Up Passengers

Operated by local transport company ComfortDelgro, the driverless NUSmart Shuttle sits up to 12 passengers and will run ... Read more

LG's Q2 Profit Drops Due To Low OLED And Mobile Sales

LG's second quarter profit saw a 15.4% decline from lower TV profits and sales and losses from mobile, but overall sales... Read more

Samsung And KT Succeed In Compressing 8K Broadcasting

Samsung and KT SkyLife used a satellite's Ka band to send 8K video data to a TV on the ground. Read more

Grab Parks $2B For Indonesia Expansion, Plans 'affordable' E-healthcare

Funded by SoftBank, the US$2 billion investment plans will see Grab develop an electric vehicle transport network and ge... Read more

Samsung To Launch Galaxy Fold In September After Making Improvements

Samsung will finally launch the Galaxy Fold foldable smartphone to launch in September, after "running rigorous tests an... Read more

Huawei To Hire 20-30 Talented 'teenagers' In 2019

One of the incoming PhD graduates will be paid an annual salary of $292,000. Read more

Samsung Films Football Match With 8K Cameras

Samsung used six 8K cameras to film International Champions Cup matches in Singapore. Read more

LG Smart TVs To Support Apple AirPlay 2 And HomeKit

LG will begin rolling out a software update on Thursday to support Apple AirPlay 2 and HomeKit on its smart TVs. Read more

Walmart Discovers $10B 'surprise' Inside Its $17B Flipkart Acquisition

Flipkart's acquisition of payments firm Phone Pe founded by former Flipkart's employees has proven to be a windfall for ... Read more

TikTok Opens Indian Data Centre In Wake Of Accusations Of Hosting Pornographers And Sexual Predators

India has become TikTok's most prized and fastest growing market and one that it cannot afford to lose, hence the announ... Read more

Baffling, Ancient Roman Fragment In UK Traced To Rather Unlikely Origin

A Roman fragment uncovered two years ago in an ancient villa in the UK town of Chedworth, Gloucestershire, is being des... Read more

Why Is Twitter Suddenly Filled With Emoji Mashups?

A new bot Twitter account has quickly earned a large following after tweeting mashup emojis every hour. The Emoji Mashu... Read more

Kazakhstan Asks Internet Users To Install Controversial Security Certificate

Privacy advocates have warned that a new security certificate for internet browsers being promoted by the Kazakhstan go... Read more

$100m Series C Brings Fintech Start-up MoneyLion Near $1bn Valuation

US mobile bank MoneyLion has completed a $100m Series C funding round, which reportedly has the start-up inching toward... Read more