FinTech

GDPR As Gaeilge: William Fry Explains The New Data Rules In Irish

It’s Seachtain na Gaeilge here in Ireland and it’s GDPR Week on Siliconrepublic.com, so the perfect time for Willi... Read more

As The GDPR Deadline Looms, Is Your Company Ready?

Do you feel like the company you work for is prepared for the upcoming GDPR deadline? In many ways, it’s hard to know... Read more

Report Warns IoT Medical Devices Are Far Too Vulnerable To Cyberattacks

There was a lot going on in the internet of things (IoT) space this week in Ireland, most notably Dublin City Universi... Read more

Does Grey Matter When It Comes To Education?

Learning has never been more accessible, in theory at least. The internet allows people to do courses online and, with ... Read more

Chinese Bike-sharing Startup Ofo Raises Record $866m In Latest Funding Round

Ofo has sped up its global expansion plans as policies on shared bikes tighten in China. Read more

Alibaba Opens Data Centre In Indonesia

The facility is Alibaba Cloud's first in the Asian market, where the Chinese vendor aims to train 300 local professional... Read more

Korean Food-tech Firm Woowa Brothers Developing Delivery Robot

Woowa Brothers, a South Korean food-tech firm that runs the popular Baedal Minjok delivery app, is developing a delivery... Read more

Singapore Bank Sets Up Unit To Drive In-house AI Development

OCBC Bank will kickstart the new unit with a S$10 million investment over three years, with the aim to embed artificial ... Read more

Samsung SmartThings, Harman To Collaborate On IoT Acceleration

Harman and Samsung SmartThings will collaborate in the SmartThings app, integration of third-party sensors, and the clou... Read more

​LG To Foster Innovative Display Startups

LG Display will work with startup accelerator Bluepoint Partners to run a program that fosters startups with promising d... Read more

Grab Ventures Into Fintech, Offering Microfinancing Services

Ride-sharing company launches fintech platform and partners Credit Saison and Chubb to offer loans and insurance service... Read more

​South Korea Develops 5G, Wi-Fi Auto Steering Tech

The technology developed by South Korea's ETRI will have 5G network automatically steering users to Wi-Fi connection dep... Read more

APAC Clocked Most Malicious Mobile Apps In 2017

Some 3.3 million malicious mobile apps were detected in Asia-Pacific, which also was the region most affected across sev... Read more

70 Jobs Are Headed For Cork As Pilz Opens New Development Centre

Global automation technology company Pilz has revealed today (9 March) the opening of €7.4m software development cent... Read more

Weekend Takeaway: Celebrate Your Heroes

Women Invent 100: Everyday heroes taking steps towards progress in 2018 Image: MJgraphics/Shutterstock Progress takes... Read more