Siargao now has upgraded 5G Internet coverage
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)...
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Google’s US$15B Malaysia bet comes with a promise to pay its own power bill
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 cen...
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China’s appliance queen on her firm’s quest for greener cooling, and going global
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...
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Equal spend: why AI budgets need a security twin
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 o...
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Nine in ten Singaporeans use AI. Only a third are comfortable with it
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 Digita...
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US$16.5B and counting: Inside the lopsided year that rewrote SEA’s funding charts
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 lates...
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Can Bitcoin hold US$80,000 after a US$386M short squeeze and US$1.16B in ETF outflows?
I think this crypto advance deserves attention, but not full conviction. Bitcoin rose 4.77 per cent to US$80,721.27 in 24 hours and led a broad move that lifted the total crypto market 4.73 per cent t...
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The step zero problem of the startup ecosystem
Over the last decade, Southeast Asia has built an increasingly sophisticated infrastructure for startups, and countries such as Singapore and Vietnam are known for their reputation as regional startup...
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Why global expansion demands a different mindset today
International expansion has always been regarded as the defining milestone for business success. The playbook was seemingly straightforward – identify promising markets, establish local presence and s...
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AntiScam Pango is an app developed by GovTech and Google to help detect scams on your phone
The app help users spot potential scams by analysing and flagging suspicious conversations....
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The Great Unsubscribe: Why shoppers are tuning out brand messaging, and how retailers can stop it
Modern retailers are used to disruption. They regularly have to navigate shifting algorithms, platform outages at odd hours, and ever tightening privacy rules with every legislative cycle. Yet a quiet...
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AI might be the final boss for your best ideas
Earlier this year, I was staring at our 2026 plan and thinking: there are too many things in here. Payroll, billing, cross-border payments, payment licences, more salespeople, more product development...
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Sony reportedly bowing out of Blu-ray players, so is this the end of Blu-ray?
What does the future hold for Blu-ray?...
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Nokia 2360 Flip launches in PH, features SOS button
MANILA, Philippines — Nokia is reviving the “old school” flip phone design with the launch of the Nokia 2360 Flip. Priced at P2,790, the device features a 1.77-inch external screen and a 2.8-inch QVGA...
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PhilSA moves closer to 2027 rocket launch after South Korea training
MANILA, Philippines — Ten engineers from the Philippine Space Agency (PhilSA) completed rocket training in South Korea, marking a significant milestone toward the country’s first-ever rocket launch, s...
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How Democratic sweep could slow AI growth in US – and help China’s ambitions
The Democratic Party’s sweeping midterm election victory and takeover of both houses of Congress could slow down the pace of artificial intelligence development in the US, with implications for both t...
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Block 123: Pinoy Street Rumble brings nostalgia to MOBA
MANILA, Philippines — Makati-based independent game studio Halo Halo Games aims to revive childhood classics like agawan base (base stealing), rubber band flicking, and paper plane throwing in Block 1...
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DeepSeek engineer defends push for open-source AGI despite higher risks
DeepSeek is committed to open-source artificial intelligence to accelerate the arrival of artificial general intelligence (AGI), even if it heightens safety risks, a company engineer says, defying gro...
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AI chatbots cave on climate facts under pressure, and SEA’s languages may fare worst
Ask a chatbot whether human activity is warming the planet and you will almost certainly get the right answer. Argue with it for a turn or two and, according to a new study from UNESCO and University ...
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Tgee builds legacy from one game to another
MANILA, Philippines – For more than a decade, JGame Esports coach Gerald “Tgee” Gelacio has navigated the shifting landscape of competitive esports, moving from League of Legends (LoL) to Wild Rift (W...
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Grab’s Q3 shows a superapp quietly turning into a lender
Grab Holdings has a new favourite number. For the third quarter of 2026, it is US$237 million, a record Adjusted EBITDA, the nineteenth consecutive quarter of growth, and the figure the Nasdaq-listed ...
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Why Multiable HCM Is the Best AI HRIS in Singapore for Public Companies and Large Enterprises
Enterprise Workforce Administration for Listed Corporations in Singapore Rising Governance Expectations in Public Company Human Resources Listed corporations and large enterprise groups operating on t...
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Eight systems, one number: How DVI Group fixed the back office its pandemic boom broke
Four years ago, DVI Group’s management team sat down for what should have been a routine meeting. Sales, finance, delivery and customer service each brought a spreadsheet tracking the company’s live c...
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Huawei FreeBuds SE 5 Max combines IP-rated resistance with ANC, for just S$58
The Huawei FreeBuds SE 5 Max combines long battery life, support for high-quality audio codecs, and active noise cancellation (ANC) technology for just S$58. Details within....
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Tencent unveils Hy4 as open-weight AI race with DeepSeek, Z.ai, Alibaba heats up
Chinese tech giant Tencent Holdings has rolled out its latest flagship artificial intelligence model, Hy4, seeking to challenge top open-weight rivals with enhanced agentic capabilities built to power...
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Afore funded him, flew him to SF, then watched him scrap the plan in a week. They didn’t flinch
The excitement lasted about as long as it took his roommate to ask one question. Mohammed Khambhati was in his dorm at the Singapore University of Technology and Design (SUTD) when he learnt that Afor...
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US$1B ETF outflows, Democratic sweep highly likely, Iran war: Can Bitcoin hold US$75,600?
Bitcoin fell 1.05 per cent to US$75,830.54 in 24 hours and underperformed a slightly weaker broader market. The move matters because it shows a trading environment tightly tied to macro risk. Bitcoin ...
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Two interviews and a coding test: How a fake job opened Binance to North Korea
Before North Korea’s hackers took US$6.4 billion from Binance, they took US$14.3 million from people most of us will never hear about. That second figure, from a new Chainalysis analysis, may matter m...
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Your startup should think about scaling, not surviving
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...
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The Tech Show 2026 promises bigger rewards and tech deals from just S$5
The year-end electronics event returns with 1,000-plus deals, exclusive launches and an unusual S$67 cash rebate promotion....
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