Malaysia carried Southeast Asia’s IPO market in 2026. The rest of the region went quiet

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MANILA, Philippines – Nearly a decade after the last mainline installment, Professor Layton and the New World of Steam is bringing the gentleman detective back for a new adventure.  Launching on December 10, 2026, for PlayStation 5, Nintendo Switch, Nintendo Switch 2, and PC via Steam, the game reunites Professor Layton and Luke in a

The center-left technology policy group Chamber of Progress is laying out its policy priorities for Democrats, as the party prepares to take back control of the House and Senate next year. In a memo sent Wednesday and first reported by The Hill, Chamber of Progress urges Democratic lawmakers to focus on consumer protection, economic opportunity...

Fierce pushback to data centers helped carry Democrats to victory in key races across the nation this week, and where the centers were explicitly on the ballot, they lost overwhelmingly. Midterm voters rejected industry-backed candidates and overwhelmingly backed resolutions to halt data center construction, dealing a major blow to the sector.  Election Day marked perhaps...

For two years, the rules of AI fundraising were simple: whoever asked for the biggest number got it. Last week, that stopped being true at the very top of the market. OpenAI cut its fundraising target by US$10 billion to US$20 billion as falling tech stocks and weaker investor demand complicated its plans ahead of […] The post The frontier AI money is getting picky. Southeast Asia’s AI founders should price that in now appeared first on e27.

From smartphones to refrigerators, Samsung’s latest offering aims to make ownership easier, with Singapore getting first dibs in the region.

Siargao residents and tourists can now experience much faster mobile speeds as Smart further boosted its 5G internet coverage on the island. Mobile services provider Smart Communications, Inc. (Smart), the wireless arm of PLDT Inc., is further enhancing its 5G coverage and capacity in key areas of Siargao Island in time for the World Surf

Google will spend US$15 billion on Malaysian digital infrastructure across 2027 and 2028, a sum it unveiled on Wednesday with Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim in the room. The package bundles new data centre campuses with skilling, water and clean energy commitments. The scale is the story. In 2024, Google pledged US$2 billion for its first […] The post Google’s US$15B Malaysia bet comes with a promise to pay its own power bill appeared first on e27.

Dong Mingzhu chairs Gree Electric Appliances, a home-appliance giant based in southern China’s Guangdong province. Having worked her way up from a frontline sales job, she is one of China’s best-known figures in manufacturing. As a deputy to the National People’s Congress, she has long advocated for manufacturing innovation, higher incomes and greener consumption. In this interview, conducted when she was named an inaugural “Cool Leader” at an assembly of the UN Environment Programme’s Cool...

The last few weeks have had a pattern. Every week, another company announces an AI agent, an AI assistant or an AI workflow. Every week, another headline tells us something has been breached, leaked or drained. Those two streams of news are connected. On 30 October, Binance suffered the biggest theft in crypto history, with […] The post Equal spend: why AI budgets need a security twin appeared first on e27.

Nine in ten Singapore internet users now reach for an AI tool every month. Barely a third say they are comfortable doing so. That gap between habit and confidence is the most telling finding in Digital 2027: Singapore, the annual report released today by creative agency We Are Social and media intelligence firm Meltwater. According […] The post Nine in ten Singaporeans use AI. Only a third are comfortable with it appeared first on e27.

Southeast Asia’s tech startups have raised more funding in the first ten months of 2026 than almost anyone in the ecosystem would have forecast in January. Add up the monthly figures in Tracxn’s latest snapshot and the region has drawn about US$16.55 billion between January and October. October alone delivered US$3.68 billion across 14 rounds, […] The post US$16.5B and counting: Inside the lopsided year that rewrote SEA’s funding charts appeared first on e27.