We audited our own backlinks. Four domains linked to us, and two of them counted
Our company builds software in Ho Chi Minh City. Our website has been live for over a year, and for most of that time we assumed our directory listings were doing something for us. On 15 August 2026 I...
Read more
Disney+ to stream NBA games live in Singapore from 2026/27 season
Subscribers will get 80 regular-season games, selected playoff match-ups and NBA Finals games in five seasons, included with their existing subscription....
Read more
Southeast Asia’s sellers spent a decade learning to sell to people. Now they have to sell to AI
In February 2026, Sea Limited struck a partnership with Google on “agentic shopping prototypes.” By June, Shopee had become the first Southeast Asian e-commerce platform built directly into ChatGPT, l...
Read more
AI agents broke into 100 firms for pocket change. SEA’s online shops fit the target profile
For years, the small business owner in Penang or Cebu has relied on a quiet, unspoken form of security: obscurity. Who would bother hacking a family-run online furniture store when there are banks to ...
Read more
Huawei Watch 6 Series arrives in Singapore, pre-orders start on 24 October
Pre-order gifts are worth up to S$258, with an additional S$30 discount voucher for online purchases....
Read more
China’s Unitree unveils ‘guardian’ robot that can disarm attackers, lift cars
A knife-wielding intruder is confronted. A car is lifted to free a trapped victim. A pedestrian is pulled from the path of an oncoming vehicle. The scenes described are not from a Hollywood blockbuste...
Read more
Meta to pay New Mexico a historic US$25 billion in Cambridge Analytica Facebook case
Meta Platforms was ordered to pay a groundbreaking US$25 billion civil penalty to the state of New Mexico in a consumer deception case spurred by the Cambridge Analytica scandal. The fine issued by st...
Read more
NSA warns organizations to patch security flaws identified by AI
The National Security Agency (NSA) warned organizations Wednesday to immediately patch a pair of security flaws or take their systems offline after artificial intelligence discovered vulnerabilities i...
Read more
Judge orders Meta to pay New Mexico $25B in Cambridge Analytica case
A judge in New Mexico ordered the technology giant Meta to pay $25 billion after a jury found the company liable for misleading users about its privacy and content policies. New Mexico Attorney Genera...
Read more
Reign of the Black Empire is Hearthstone’s grittiest expansion yet
Hearthstone’s latest expansion latest expansion, Reign of the Black Empire is officially live! The expansion adds 135 cards and introduces Assemble, a new keyword that allows players to create custom ...
Read more
China expresses 'firm opposition' to Trump administration sanctions tied to former Google engineer
China slammed the Trump administration's move to sanction five Chinese companies linked to a former Google engineer accused of intellectual property theft, calling it "egregious." The State Department...
Read more
Musk: SpaceX, Tesla merger a 'good idea'
Elon Musk said Tuesday that his two companies, SpaceX and Tesla, have formed independent special committees to discuss the potential merger, calling it "a good idea." "I think it would be a good idea...
Read more
GOP rep: 'We got to investigate' Starlink slowdown report
Republican Rep. Brian Fitzpatrick (Pa.) is calling for a congressional investigation into the Starlink slowdown in Ukraine after a report that SpaceX and Tesla CEO Elon Musk personally ordered it. “We...
Read more
Need a notary? here’s how eNotarization works in the Philippines
MANILA, Philippines — Filipinos can now have digital documents notarized online. The Supreme Court began offering electronic notarization (eNotarization) on Monday, October 19, 2026, through three acc...
Read more
OPPO Find X10 Pro Max launches at S$2,199 (512GB), and that’s before pre-order bonuses *Updated*
As part of OPPO’s new Find X10 series, the Find X10 Pro Max will be joined by the more affordable Find X10 and Find X10E....
Read more
Outright ban? Parental controls exist for social media platforms
A lot has happened since I first wrote about the Child Protection Act. Amidst the Discord ban that caused (former) DICT Henry Aguda to be replaced, to the Act being ratified while I was sitting at the...
Read more
Tesla signs deal to integrate Alipay into its cars as China competition heats up
Tesla has agreed a deal to integrate Chinese fintech giant Ant Group’s Alipay digital payment software into its vehicles in China, as Elon Musk’s firm steps up efforts to offer localised smart feature...
Read more
Polymarket blocks wagers on fate of Cornell students accused of sexual assault
After facing public backlash, Polymarket has removed a market that allowed users to wager on the fate of the seven Cornell University students accused of sexually assaulting a woman at a fraternity ho...
Read more
Washington’s DeepSeek ban may deter US firms from adopting Chinese AI models: experts
The US government’s latest ban on Chinese artificial intelligence start-up DeepSeek could have a chilling effect on the wider American business community and deter companies from adopting low-cost Chi...
Read more
Investors 'almost certainly' in midst of AI bubble: Ken Griffin
Billionaire investor Ken Griffin said Tuesday that investors are dealing with an artificial intelligence bubble, as companies rack up debt to satisfy the demand for data centers and models. “There’s a...
Read more
Warren warns of ‘enormous risk’ if Musk is ‘dictating our foreign policy’
Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) said there needs to be an investigation of who ordered the limit on Ukraine’s access to the Starshield satellite-based internet network and warned there is an “enormous...
Read more
2026 is the year AI is pushed to production
“Two years ago, AI was a demo. Last year, it was a pilot. This year, the leaders who are pulling ahead have moved it into production.” At this year’s VST ECS’ CXO Summit, President and CEO Jimmy Go la...
Read more
Ex-PropertyGuru CEO’s Genie Health raises US$3M to make sense of your scattered health data
Anyone in Singapore who has sat through a corporate health screening knows the ritual. A thick report arrives, a few numbers glow red, and the PDF is filed somewhere between a tax notice and a gym mem...
Read more
Homage turns its in-house care software into a business as Singapore turns super-aged
Ask a care manager in Singapore when the workday ends and the honest answer is: some time after the last visit, once the roster is patched, the visit notes are filed and the calls to anxious families ...
Read more
Nvidia CEO to deliver keynote speech in Berlin as his firm faces investor scrutiny over AI
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang is set to take the stage in Berlin on Wednesday, as the world’s most valuable company faces heightened investor scrutiny over whether the massive artificial intelligence spendi...
Read more
The world’s rich are turning inward. Southeast Asia’s entrepreneurs are packing their bags
For two decades, the startup gospel was simple: find product-market fit at home, then blitzscale across borders. In 2026, much of the world appears to be rethinking the second half of that sentence. A...
Read more
Bitcoin at US$82,829: Why a 95% correlation with the S&P 500 should worry long term believers
The digital asset landscape intertwines deeply with traditional equities rather than operating in isolation. The leading cryptocurrency recently climbed 1.67 per cent to reach US$82,829.06 over a sing...
Read more
DeepSeek seeks ‘total victory’ over closed-source AI with new open-source tool
Chinese artificial intelligence start-up DeepSeek has fully open-sourced an internally developed framework designed to run AI models efficiently, as a senior researcher at the company described the gr...
Read more
Southeast Asia’s US$1T digital dream slips five years, and AI is the new reason to keep believing
Every October, Google, Temasek and Bain & Company gather Southeast Asia’s tech crowd around one seductive number. This year it is US$368 billion, the gross merchandise value (GMV) the region’s digital...
Read more
AFA Singapore 2026 brings Yuki Kajiura, May’n and Kyary Pamyu Pamyu to Suntec City
3 days of concerts, anime showcases and fan experiences await from 27 to 29 November....
Read more
YOUR NEWS, OUR NETWORK.
Do you have Great News you want to tell the world?
Be it updates about your business or your community, you can make sure that it’s heard by submitting your story to our network reaching hundreds of news sites across 6 verticals.






























