innovation

SINGAPORE (Nov 7): The ability to communicate, shop online, order rides, read books, play games, get food delivery and pay for anything within a single, unified smartphone app is Asia’s defining innovation, technology leaders said at Bloomberg’s New E

SINGAPORE (Oct 22): United Overseas Bank (UOB) has launched an innovation and internationalisation programme to provide financial support and cross-border opportunities to small- and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs).  

SINGAPORE (July 25): Middle-market executives in Singapore are especially optimistic about business conditions and opportunities when compared to their global peers, according to the findings of the annual EY Growth Barometer.

SINGAPORE (July 11): Singapore has moved up two notches to be the fifth most innovative country amongst 126 nations in the Global Innovation Index (GII) 2018 report.

SINGAPORE (June 14): By 2020, the consumer and retail industry landscape is likely to see an emergence of new business models, fewer physical stores, and more companies distributing their products through owned channels.

SINGAPORE (June 5): Singapore has emerged to top The Economist Intelligence Unit’s (The EIU) Technological Readiness Ranking for 2018-22 alongside Australia and Sweden, which are also ranked at No. 1.

SINGAPORE (May 8): SAP, the enterprise application software provider, today launched its fifth global SAP Leonardo Center in Singapore to service its customers in the Asia Pacific Japan (APJ) region.

SINGAPORE (Apr 16): On April 3, two former property agents were fined $60,000 each for short-term rentals they had posted on Airbnb. The two men had collected $19,000 from four listings at the d’Leedon condominium over five weeks last year. The action w

HONG KONG (Apr 13): Singapore Exchange has announced a new product that an excited hedge-fund manager described to me as the "most brilliant use of finance."

SINGAPORE (Feb 21): An IDC study commissioned by Microsoft predicts that digital transformation will add about US$10 billion ($13.2 billion) to Singapore’s gross domestic product (GDP) figures by 2021 with an annual increase in GDP growth rate by 0.6%.