Chinese tech giant Tencent Holdings is using Southeast Asia as a launch pad to take its “cost-effective” artificial intelligence tools global, fronted by its workplace assistant WorkBuddy, amid cutthr...
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The Android XR-powered glasses bring Gemini AI, virtual screens and immersive entertainment into a lightweight design, with shipments starting in mid-November....
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Ask a deeptech founder in Southeast Asia what keeps them up at night and few will blame the science. The harder problem is finding someone willing to let an unproven technology loose on a real buildin...
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Part one of this guide ended with a draft. This one starts there. A finished draft is a bit like a packed suitcase: the hard decisions are made, but you can still leave without your passport. Plenty o...
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Hong Kong does not make many batteries. It has no lithium mines, no gigafactories, and industrial land prices that would make any cell manufacturer wince. Yet Hong Kong Science and Technology Parks Co...
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Bitcoin has climbed back above the critical US$81,000 baseline. This 24-hour rebound does not erase a difficult month. The digital asset remains in its weakest October performance in six years, down r...
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I run OTSATE, a small lemongrass sauce brand in Malaysia. I’m the founder, the cook and the person who does the numbers, so everything below is one operator’s experience, not a benchmark. Most of my a...
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Washington has spent the past year making it harder, pricier and more nerve-racking for foreign talent to work in America. Asian founders, if a new survey is to be believed, have mostly shrugged. Sing...
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Most small business owners I speak to compare website quotes the same way: they line up the first invoice and pick the lowest. It feels sensible. It’s also how many end up paying several times more th...
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Fingular, the Kuala Lumpur-headquartered fintech group behind the AhaPay buy now, pay later (BNPL) service, has secured a US$20 million credit facility from Silverstreak Group, a Singapore-based priva...
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