FinTech

​Facebook Fined In South Korea For Limiting User Access

South Korea's telco watchdog has fined Facebook 396 million won (US$370,000) for rerouting networks, causing slower acce... Read more

Tencent Sees 2017 Profit Climb 75 Percent On Robust Ad Sales

Chinese tech giant's online advertising revenue grew 49.9 percent for its fiscal 2017, which saw its profit grow to US$1... Read more

KPMG Acquires Singapore Mobile App Developer

Consulting firm says it has purchased Singapore-headquartered Rainmaker Labs in a move to beef up its digital and mobile... Read more

​Samsung Adds Fingerprint Sensor To 8-inch Foundry

Samsung Electronics' contract chip-making business now offers six 8-inch wafer solutions, including a RF/IoT and fingerp... Read more

​Naver And Foursquare To Develop POI Search Engine

Naver Labs, the research subsidiary of South Korean search giant Naver, will work with US-based Foursquare to develop a ... Read more

A Change In Our Approach As Well As Technology Can Change The Financial Service Industry

Since moving from telecoms into the financial services industry, I have observed that there are a number of lessons that... Read more

MicroLED Patents Nearly Double In A Year In South Korea

MicroLED patents filed in the country, which were close to nil near the end of the last decade, have gone from 67 in 201... Read more

​Anti-H-1B Ads Targeting Foreign Tech Workers Swamp San Francisco Mass Transit

The ads are part of the overall attempt to safeguard the interests of the American tech worker and strangulate the forei... Read more

StarHub Partners Sunseap To Compete In Singapore Electricity Market

Singapore telco StarHub will begin selling electricity services next month when Singapore begins opening up its power ma... Read more

Alibaba Looks To Drive SEA Growth With Another $2B Investment In Lazada

Latest fund injection pushes Alibaba's total investment to US$4 billion since the Chinese e-commerce giant bought a cont... Read more

​South Korea To Fund 10Gb Internet Push

The South Korean government will pick two consortia for projects that will help fast-track the commercialisation of 10-g... Read more

Singapore Industry Needs Stronger Codes Of Conduct As Consumer Data Gains Value

As businesses capture more information about customers, consumers need to be more informed about such practices and indu... Read more

Project HAMMER: NASA Reveals Radical Plan To Blow Up Killer Asteroid

As we now know, our planet is incredibly vulnerable to asteroids both big and small that enter a collision course with ... Read more

IBM Shares 5 Steps To GDPR Readiness

At IBM, we’ve established a global readiness programme tasked with identifying the key impacts of the GDPR (General ... Read more

Google Maps Introduces Wheelchair Accessible Routes In 6 Cities

Numerous cities around the world are required to have accessible underground and rail systems, but it can often be a pa... Read more