By Chloe Lim While data science is a relatively new field, the percentage of women data scientists is low compare to men. However, panellists at a H2O.ai online session believe that it’s just a matter […]
Kofax brings on Printix
Kofax has acquired Printix to strengthen its intelligent automation platform. According to Reynolds C Bish, Chief Executive Officer of Kofax, the acquisition allows Kofax to continue enhancing its intelligent automation platform, increase its customer and […]
NTT launches private 5G network-as-a-service platform
NTT has launched the first globally available private LTE/5G network-as-a-service platform to helps enterprises leverage the benefits of private 5G to solve business problems and innovate. The NTT Private 5G (P5G) platform is based on […]
Mahidol University powers drug discovery research with NVIDIA platform
Thailand’s new AI Center at Mahidol University (MU) is powering drug discovery research with the NVIDIA DGX A100 systems and the NVIDIA Clara platform. Housed at the university’s Salaya campus, the centre will initially support […]
NVIDIA announces compact RTX A2000 GPU
By KL Lim NVIDIA has expanded its professional GPUs range with the compact NVIDIA RTX A2000, which is deigned to fit even small form factor workstations. Based on the Ampere architecture, RTX A2000 will empower […]
Xiaomi leads as India smartphone market recovers
Xiaomi grew an impressive 84 percent year-over-year in Q2 as India’s smartphone market recovered from the pandemic with a 86 percent rise, according to IDC. Overall the China phone maker snagged a 29.2 percent market […]
Baidu rolls out Apolong II autonomous minibus
Baidu is rolling out the new Apolong II multi-purpose autonomous minibus in Guangzhou Huangpu District, China. Equipped with advanced autonomous driving capabilities and the latest in-vehicle smart cabin technologies, Apolong II is customisable for public […]
ForgeRock adds 2 board members
ForgeRock has appointed two new members to its Board of Directors — Rinki Sethi, Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) of Twitter and Johanna Flower, former Chief Marketing Officer (CMO) of CrowdStrike. Sethi has more than […]
Qualcomm makes Veoneer offer
Qualcomm has offered to acquire Veoneer in an all-cash transaction of US$37 per share or about US$4.6 billion in total. The move will bring on board Veoneer’s automotive technology to better position Qualcomm in the […]
TPG accelerates 5G deployment with Nokia antenna
TPG Telecom has become the first global site for Nokia’s integrated 5G Interleaved Passive Active Antenna (IPAA). To be installed at a site in Brisbane, the Twin Beam version of IPAA delivers both 5G capability […]
AEye opens in Japan
LiDAR solution provider AEye has opened an office in Tokyo to better support and grow its automotive, mobility and industrial partners suppliers, customers, and system integrators. AEye’s intelligent LiDAR (iDAR) leverages deterministic AI to focus […]
Square to acquire Afterpay
Square has agreed to acquire Afterpay for US$29 billion. The acquisition is expected to be completed by the first quarter of 2022. According to Jack Dorsey, Co-Founder and CEO of Square, both companies have a […]
Zadara expands into Malaysia
Enterprise cloud service provider Zadara has set up base in Malaysia as part of its Southeast Asia expansion plans. It has also formed a strategic partnership with KH Datagate, which will see the rollout of […]
Acronis intros advanced protection pack for service providers
Acronis has announced the new Acronis Cyber Protect Cloud advanced protection pack, which includes Advanced File Sync and Share, for service providers. Building on the file-sharing capabilities in Acronis Cyber Protect Cloud, Advanced File Sync […]
Asus hops on hoolah BNPL platform
Asus is hopping on the buy now pay later (BNPL) trend to offer customers a more flexible and convenient way of payment. The new payment option will kick off in Singapore across all Asus physical […]
Walmart to help businesses with digital transformation
Walmart will begin offering its own technologies and capabilities to help other businesses and brands better serve both onsite and online customers. Over the past several years, the US supermarket giant has developed technologies and […]
Raise a pet in metaverse
Remember the wildly popular Tamagotchi pet game that got the world hooked on caring for and feeding a digital pet? Korean pet curation platform Mongplus is revisiting the virtual pet raising concept by working with […]
Quadpay rebrands as Zip
A year after its acquisition of Quadpay, Zip is renaming the buy now, pay later (BNPL) platform to increase brand presence for its growing global business. It is investing deeply to escalate its brand awareness […]
SambaNova and ScaleWorX align to drive AI adoption in APAC
SambaNova Systems and ScaleWorX are partnering to drive AI adoption in the Asia-Pacific region. Under the partnership, ScaleWorX will offer innovative and best-in-class AI solutions from SambaNova to its end users. It will implement SambaNova’s […]
NVIDIA AI software halves inference time for language queries
NVIDIA has launched the eighth generation of the TensorRT AI software that slices inference time in half for language queries to help developers build search engines, ad recommendations and chatbots. TensorRT 8 delivers the speed […]
2 in 3 Indian organisations in early AI adoption
Artificial intelligence (AI) is THE must-do technology these days. In India, two out of three organisations are exploring AI technologies to enhance customer experience, improve operations, and enhance decision-making, according to IDC. However, only 8.4 […]
Singapore is top global innovation hub
Singapore has retained its pole position in KPMG’s global ranking of leading technology innovation hubs outside of Silicon Valley/San Francisco. The 2021 KPMG Technology Industry Survey of more than 800 global leaders ranked Singapore ahead […]
Informatica expands APAC footprint with Azure
Informatica has launched its Intelligent Data Management Cloud (IDMC) platform on Microsoft Azure to expand its footprint in the Asia-Pacific region. The move follows Informatica and Azure’s collaboration which grew 109 percent year-on-year in 2020. […]
Hubilo enhances all-in-one event platform
With the pandemic still impacting the events industry, Hubilo has enhanced its virtual and hybrid event platform with better overall attendee engagement, human connections and ROI of events. The improved version integrates attendee experience and […]
Palo Alto Networks develops firewall using NVIDIA DPU
Palo Alto Networks has introduced the first virtual next-generation firewall (NGFW) to be accelerated by a DPU to boost the network defence of data centres. NVIDIA’s BlueField data processing unit (DPU) is used to accelerate […]
Uzabase introduces Speeda Edge research platform
Tokyo-based Uzabase has announced its Speeda Edge research platform for professionals in venture capital, corporate strategy and innovation, mergers and acquisitions, and at funded startups. The emerging industry intelligence platform contains custom profiles and proprietary […]
HP launches light Pavilion Aero for Gen Zs
HP Singapore has released the lightweight HP Pavilion Aero 13 laptop designed with Gen Zs in mind. Weighing under one kilogramme, it lets them work and play with the laptop wherever they go. Besides being […]
Acronis names Patrick Pulvermueller as CEO
Acronis has appointed Patrick Pulvermueller (above) as Chief Executive Officer. He replaces Serguei Beloussov, who founded the company in 2003 and has served as CEO since 2013. Most recently President of the Partner Business at […]
Choco Up pumps US$8m into Janio to fuel expansion
Fintech firm Choco Up has invested USD$8 million in Janio, a cross-border platform that provides integrated, end-to-end e-commerce logistics solutions in Southeast Asia. Singapore-based Janio aims to simplify deliveries across borders and integrate the logistics […]
CyberLink partners with Asus on smart IoT/AIoT apps
CyberLink has linked up with Asus to develop a solution with integrated facial-recognition capabilities for use in areas such as security, access control, visitor management and contactless experiences for retail, public services, and hospitality. The […]
