HP has agreed to acquire HyperX, the gaming division of Kingston Technology, for US$425 million. The move will strengthen HP’s offerings and drive growth in the gaming and peripherals market. HyperX’s gaming-related products include headsets, […]

HP has agreed to acquire HyperX, the gaming division of Kingston Technology, for US$425 million. The move will strengthen HP’s offerings and drive growth in the gaming and peripherals market. HyperX’s gaming-related products include headsets, […]
Australia has passed the News Media Bargaining Code to get Facebook, Google and other tech platforms to pay Australian publishers for showing their contents in posts and searches. Under the code, Facebook and Google will […]
With the world still reeling from COVID-19, NVIDIA will be sharing at SupercomputingAsia (SCA) 2021 how high performance computing (HPC) and artificial intelligence (AI) are playing integral parts in the battle against the pandemic. At […]
Australia should be able to view news on their Facebook feeds again in the next few days. This about turn comes after the Australian government agreed to change its proposed media bargaining law aimed at […]
Despite a 14.6 percent year-on-year decline, Samsung maintained its pole position in the global smartphone market in 2020, according to Gartner. Apple sailed past Huawei to take the second spot with 3.3 percent annual growth. […]
Dell Technologies has set up a US$50 million research and development (R&D) facility in Singapore that’s plugged in to its network of Global Innovation Hubs around the world. The Singapore centre will focus on R&D […]
London-based TransferWise has been renamed as Wise and expanded its Singapore office to larger premises with more than 70 additional headcount in 2021. Launched in 2011, the money transfer company has built a cross-border payments […]
Despite the pushback from users, WhatsApp is determined to press on with its privacy updates. Since news broke of the changes to privacy terms and conditions, the messaging app has faced what it deemed as […]
NVIDIA seems to have adopted a two-pronged approach towards solving its GPU availability challenge and the high demand from cyptocurrency miners. The first step by halving hash rate or cryptcurrency mining efficiency of the new […]
Epic Games has upped the ante in its battle with Apple by filing an antitrust complaint in the European Union (EU). The move follows similar lawsuits in the United States, Australia and the United Kingdom. […]
Facebook has taken the drastic step of blocking publishers and people in Australia from sharing or viewing Australian and international news. This ban is in response to the Australian government’s proposed new Media Bargaining law, […]
One month after it was hooked offline by Amazon Web Services (AWS), Parler has returned online. In various reports, it seems that Parler’s lifeline came from SkySilk, a Los Angeles-based cloud platform. Its resurrection must […]
NVIDIA’s US$40 billion acquisition of Arm has gotten Google, Microsoft and Qualcomm all worked up. According to reports, the three tech companies have made their concerns known to regulators in China, the European Union, the […]
Baidu has partnered with the Guangzhou Huangpu District government to roll out a multi-modal autonomous driving mobility as a service (MaaS) platform in Guangzhou, China. Utilising a fleet of more than 40 Apollo Robotaxis and […]
Disregarding its battle with the US government, Xiaomi has forged ahead to launch it Mi 11 flagship globally. The latest smartphone comes with Qualcomm Snapdragon 888 chipset, 108MP triple rear camera, cinematic audio, and 50W […]
Parler CEO John Matze has been fired by the company’s board. According to his memo to staff (reported by Fox News), Matze noted that on January 29, 2021, “the Parler board controlled by Rebekah Mercer […]
South Korea has reclaimed the top in the latest Bloomberg Innovation Index ranking. It ousted Germany, which slide to fourth behind Singapore and Switzerland. Sweden, Denmark, Israel, Finland, the Netherlands, and Austria complete the top […]
First Wave Agency and Hasbro have launched Monopoly Explore! SG to give those in Singapore an engaging digital experience of the island from their devices. Downloadable from Play Store now and AppStore from February 22, […]
Bridge Data Centres is building a third data centre in Malaysia. When completed in Q2 2022, it will deliver 16 megawatts (MW) of IT capacity. Called MY03, the new data centre is located at Bukit […]
Singapore’s Budget Direct Insurance has launched a 24/7 online emergency support for motorists and travellers seeking assistance while on the road in Singapore or travelling in Malaysia or South Thailand. The link from the company’s […]
Xiaomi has filed a lawsuit against the US government in a bid to be removed from the list of companies the US claimed to have links to China’s military. The blacklist, if effected, would make […]
Telegram has gained more than 100 new users in January, the bulk of whom were probably former WhatsApp users who were peeved by new terms and privacy policy. And Telegram has just added an incentive […]
The success of its iPhone 12 series propelled Apple to the top of the smartphone market with 23.4 percent share in Q4, according to IDC Apple shipped 90.1 million devices in that quarter to drive […]
With AI systems on the rise due to increasd interest in the technology, NVIDIA has introduced the NVIDIA-Certified Systems programme to qualify systems that deliver the performance, programmability and secure throughput enterprise AI needs. Optimised […]
Qualcomm Technologies is pre-integrating Alexa Custom Assistant with its Snapdragon automotive cockpit platforms. This arrangement is designed to support automotive OEMs and Tier-1 suppliers to build customisable, in-vehicle intelligent assistants. It is offered as an […]
LG Innotek has deveoped a digital car key module that can be used to lock or unlock, as well as start a vehicle using a smartphone. Once installed in a car, the digital car key […]
Worldwide IT spending is expected to reach US$3.9 trillion in 2021, up 6.2 percent from 2020, according to Gartner. Enterprise software is expected to have the strongest rebound of 8.8 percent as remote work environments […]
Faced with a proposed new Australian law on having to pay news sites for links to their articles, Google is threatening to pull the search engine out of the continent. Google is not the only […]
As Indonesia’s first NVIDIA DGX A100 supercomputer user, PT Telkom plans to use the system to develop artificial intelligence (AI)-based computer vision and 5G-based applications to support and advance its businesses. With NVIDIA DGX A100 […]
Amid reports that it is exiting the smartphone business, LG Electronics has shared that it is thoroughly reviewing the direction and open to all possibilities. The move comes on the back of 23 consecutive quarters […]