Afore funded him, flew him to SF, then watched him scrap the plan in a week. They didn’t flinch

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 construction site in Chonburi, eastern Thailand. Sit with that for a moment. People who spent years, sometimes decades, in border camps without […] The post Thailand’s labour crisis and the refugees building its AI future appeared first on e27.

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 “biggest education deal ever for Mac” as Apple plans to send the MacBook Neos to 16,400 K-12 public schools nationwide.  “Investing in our teachers

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 manufacturers expect business conditions to improve between October 2026 and March 2027, the Singapore Economic Development Board (EDB) said on Monday. A […] The post Singapore’s factories are riding the AI wave, but the optimism rests on a narrow base appeared first on e27.

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 workflows and delegate operational tasks to AI agents. Tasklet has raised an additional $12.8 million in funding, with participation from investors including Union Square Ventures, 359 Capital, […] The post SCB 10X Invests in Tasklet, AI Agent Platform for Business Workflow Automation, in Its Latest Funding Round appeared first on e27.

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 above the exchange’s own US$6.3 billion estimate. No cryptography was broken. A compromised engineer’s laptop let the attacker obtain valid signed authorisations from a Binance hot […] The post Ecosystem Roundup: North Korea’s US$6.4B Binance heist took 54 minutes and isn’t over appeared first on e27.

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 subscriptions, selling nearly 100,000 monthly packages in just 30 minutes, according to data provided by the e-commerce giant. The broadcast on Taobao and Tmall – Alibaba’s largest domestic online marketplace – marked the first time generative AI products have taken centre stage during the annual Singles’...

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, a fund managed by Krungsri Finnovate, has come in as a strategic investor, extending the Series D round led by EDBI, the […] The post Krungsri buys into Amity as the Thai AI group dresses its cap table for an IPO appeared first on e27.

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 on Nasdaq. thesun The latest deal is a good deal smaller. Econili has raised an extension round led by Vynn Capital, taking its […] The post Vynn Capital backs Econili as Malaysia bets on recycling its battery waste appeared first on e27.