The biggest threat to every startup is short-sightedness. Quick decisions, wrong partners, disproportionate risks, team hires. Every wrong decision needs to be fixed in the medium term. What this caus...

I use AI regularly for prospecting and outreach. The useful part is not having it write a generic email to a long list of companies. It is helping me find a more relevant starting point: businesses th...

In the same month a leading fintech publication declared that “information asymmetry is dead,” Singapore’s largest bank was teaching its flagship AI assistant to handle card refunds. Both claims are a...

It seems that the HomeView that Apple launched last month was just the beginning of a new lineup of smart home hubs....

For autonomous vehicles, the hardest lessons to learn are the ones that can test the skills of even the most experienced human drivers: an errant cyclist darting through a red light, or an animal bolt...

The Atto 1 is by no means the first electric hatchback, but more options are welcome in this relatively underserved space....

Banks perform a useful trick. They let customers withdraw money from checking and savings accounts at short notice, while using much of that funding to support mortgages and business loans that may no...

In the earnings call today from Apple, new CEO John Ternus mentioned its collaboration with the Philippine market, specifically the Department of Education. The DepEd will be able to distribute 170,00...

US artificial intelligence giant Anthropic’s initial public offering prospectus has exposed a vast profitability gap between it and rivals Z.ai and MiniMax, highlighting the challenges facing China’s ...

Despite being one of the few gaming phones out there left, it still packs in the latest and greatest....

Just like past Galaxy W releases, this is specifically made for a Chinese telco partnership....

One photograph in a recent Nikkei Asia report says more about Southeast Asia’s tech economy than most investor decks I have read this year. It shows Myanmar refugees working on a data centre construct...

If true, that would be the first time Xiaomi brings its rear-display phone model to Singapore....

MANILA, Philippines – Apple CEO, John Ternus announced a partnership with the Department of Education (DepEd) to deploy 170,000 MacBook Neo to teachers and staff. Ternus mentioned this to be the “bigg...

Singapore’s manufacturers are in their most buoyant mood in recent memory, and they largely have one customer category to thank: the AI data centre. A net weighted balance of 24 per cent of manufactur...

Bangkok, October 26, 2026 – SCB 10X, the disruptive technology investment arm of SCBX Group, announced its investment in Tasklet, an AI agent platform that enables businesses to automate complex workf...

North Korea’s TraderTraitor group drained about US$6.4 billion from Binance in the early hours of 30 October, Singapore time, according to a Chainalysis reconstruction that puts the loss slightly abov...

The free-to-play life simulation game arrives first on PC and mobile, where players can build a planet, meet its residents and explore the Starsea....

China’s “Lipstick King” has traded make-up swatches for artificial intelligence. Top live-streamer Li Jiaqi on Monday evening teamed up with an executive from Alibaba Group Holding to pitch AI subscri...

Eight months after Amity announced a Series D of more than US$100 million, the round is still open for business. The Thailand-founded AI group said on Monday that Finnoventure Private Equity Trust I, ...

Econili Battery New Energy likes to think big. The Ipoh-based recycler has described itself as the largest lithium-ion battery recycler in ASEAN. It talks about plants on two continents and a listing ...

The leading digital asset fell 1.69 per cent to US$76,940.91 over 24 hours, while the total crypto market capitalisation dropped 1.68 per cent. That near-perfect match matters. I don’t see this as a c...

Raising a debut fund in 2026 is hard. Raising one for biotech, a sector investors have spent four years avoiding, is harder still. NeoSci Ventures (NSV) says it has done it anyway. The Singapore-, Tai...

Food allergy in Indonesia is a real concern, and we cannot ignore it. According to CNN Indonesia, about 1.7 million children in Indonesia have allergies, and cow’s milk is one of the triggers. This nu...

In Vietnam’s climate-tech scene, a founder can win a grant and, with luck, eventually land a cheque worth several million dollars. What she is increasingly unlikely to find is anything in between. Rec...

On a weekday afternoon in late October, a group of Romanian founders pitched to a Singapore audience over Teams. One of them signed off with a plain request. He would be in Singapore the week of the S...

Over the past couple of months, I’ve come across several perspectives from AI founders that have made me question whether the fears surrounding AI are genuine concerns or narratives being shaped to se...

Readers looking to get a new tablet could be spoilt for choice next year....

Ask a Hong Kong engineer why their product deserves a place abroad and you will often hear the same answer: the city is the hardest test bed they know. Towers scramble satellite signals, space is scar...

For years, Southeast Asian founders were told to win their home market before expanding abroad. Prove the product, build the team, establish revenue, then move into neighbouring countries. That advice...