Personal data of startup support program participants leaked in cyberattack

Hoban Group’s stake in Hanjin KAL, the holding company of Hanjin Group, gained an estimated 1.1 trillion won ($822 million) in market value this month through Friday, despite sharp share price swings. Its value also rose by about 265.2 billion won from Nov. 4, when Hoban was disclosed as the company’s largest shareholder. Hoban emerged as Hanjin KAL’s second-largest shareholder in 2022 and steadily increased its holdings before overtaking Hanjin Group Chairman Cho Won-tae and related parties. The Nov. 4 disclosure showed that Hoban and related parties held 13,814,053 common shares, or 20.69 percent, narrowly ahead of Cho’s bloc at 20.58 percent. Hanjin KAL shares climbed from 123,900 won on Oct. 30 to 184,300 won on Nov. 4, reaching a closing peak of 239,000 won on Tuesday, a 92.9 percent increase from October’s final close. Profit-taking subsequently pushed the stock down 14.64 percent on Wednesday and another 0.49 percent Thursday. It edged up 0.25 percent Friday to close at 203,500 won. Assuming Hoban’s disclosed shareholding remained unchanged, its stake was worth about 2.8

In 2019, Ubisoft invited me to Paris. As I strolled through Station F, the sprawling startup campus that French billionaire Xavier Niel opened in 2017, I ran into a name I never expected to see nearly 8,000 km from home: Kerala Ventures. A venture capital firm, founded by French partners, named after the state I […] The post Kerala’s moment: Five lessons from IvyCap’s Vikram Gupta on turning talent into scale appeared first on e27.

Jensen Huang has stepped down as president and chief executive of Nvidia. In a regulatory filing, the chipmaker said its board accepted his resignation on Wednesday, days after Huang admitted to an affair with Alice Huang, a former executive at Singapore-registered Megaspeed International whom US officials suspect of spying for China. Chief financial officer Colette […] The post Jensen Huang resigns from Nvidia as alleged spy affair wipes US$300B appeared first on e27.

There is no spreadsheet for this. You cannot plug in a dozen parameters, hit enter and receive a verdict on whether a startup matters. That was the opening salvo at a Huddle Global 2026 panel provocatively titled “The VC Truth: Build What Matters, Not What Gets Funded”, where three Indian venture capitalists spent the better […] The post Build what matters or what gets funded? India’s VCs say the real gap sits in the founder’s head appeared first on e27.

When Singapore arranged exclusive Southeast Asian dates for Taylor Swift’s Eras Tour in March 2024, six shows, only stop in the region, the diplomatic and economic discussion that followed was one of the more publicly visible moments of ASEAN economic competition in recent memory. Thai officials publicly questioned the arrangement. The Philippines registered concern. Indonesian […] The post The Swift premium: What Singapore’s exclusive Eras Tour deal taught ASEAN about cultural economics appeared first on e27.

Ask a Singapore founder who might buy their company and you usually get three names: the biggest local competitor, a supplier, maybe a customer. It is a sensible guess. On the data, it is also usually the wrong pond. At Ayebot we keep a register of potential acquirers for Southeast Asian companies. As at 19 […] The post Your buyer is probably not Singaporean: What 2,488 acquirers tell founders planning an exit appeared first on e27.

What happens when your team needs a designer, a salesperson and a researcher, but you don’t have the resources to hire all three? For many small businesses, this is a familiar challenge. I lead Stories of Asia (SOA), where our work spans several areas, including leadership development through SEED Academy, personal and leadership branding through […] The post AI didn’t eliminate our work. It changed what our team could do appeared first on e27.

Picture a claims officer in Makati pasting a customer’s medical file into a free chatbot to draft a rejection letter before lunch. Upstairs, her CEO signs off on a market-entry plan stitched together by the same kind of tool. Nobody has told either of them what is allowed, because in most Philippine companies, nobody has […] The post The Philippines trusts AI more than anyone in ASEAN. Its rulebook hasn’t caught up appeared first on e27.

President Trump called outgoing Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang and told him to fight for his job ahead of his resignation, The New York Times reported on Thursday, citing two people briefed on the conversation. Huang resigned as CEO of one of the world’s most valuable companies after reports emerged of multiple extramarital affairs, including one...

Southeast Asia has roughly 350 million women, and they make most of the household’s health decisions. That alone makes women’s health a large consumer market rather than a vertical. But market size tells you little about behaviour, and behaviour is where the interesting signal is. FemTech Association Asia’s 2026 research across six markets, run with […] The post Why femtech adoption in Southeast Asia stops at the clinic door appeared first on e27.

Colette Kress, the company’s chief financial officer, will take over as interim CEO.

South Korea and Southeast Asia are becoming more relevant to discussion around the next phase of AI and blockchain adoption. South Korea offers established technology companies, advanced hardware capabilities, an active venture ecosystem and a market with strong consumer adoption of digital services. Southeast Asia has a large and diverse digital economy, mobile-first users and […] The post Why South Korea and Southeast Asia could be the next cross-border AI and blockchain corridor appeared first on e27.