Data pick of the day: Younger onliners lead ad blocking
With the arrival of ad blocking on Apple’s iOS continuing to make headlines, Global Web Index’s chart takes a look at the profile of those...
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Alpha7 launches A7 AppsConnect for cloud-based apps
Alpha7, a Singapore-based business cloud enabler, has launched A7 AppsConnect, a platform marketplace of 40 cloud-based applications – bringing affordability and efficiency across key business...
What’s Next: AirAsia is an Internet company … no, really!
It may have turned global aviation on its head and disrupted the entire airline industry, but AirAsia Group is essentially an Internet company, its chairman...
What’s Next: Disruptors will not kill off banking incumbents
Despite fintech startups being the sexy new kids on the block, and a host of new digital-fuelled payment initiatives and platforms, such disruption will not...
Foodpanda out to ‘save’ Singapore’s F&B industry
Only six in 10 F&B businesses in Singapore, and foodpanda is giving F&B outlets a fighting chance by offering delivery with little to no upfront...
Apple Seed looks to plug the startup ‘valley of death’
The cold, hard truth is that 90% of startups fail within three years, and it is this ‘valley of death’ that Apple Seed Venture Incubator...
What Microsoft’s move to Baidu from Bing in China means
Bing has never really taken off in Asia. Most countries are seeing low single digital usage rates. And in China, it’s almost virtually non-existent ever...
Five questions to eYeka on ideas crowdsourcing
‘An idea can come from anywhere’, the mantra is cornerstone for most marketing advice. eYeka, however, takes the advice quite literally as François Petavy, CEO...
Facebook eyes TV dollars with new brand ad tools
Facebook is rolling out a slate of new advertising products which are aimed at attracting the TV advertisers to the one and a half billion...
Singapore PC market grew 12% in 1H 2015: Gartner
PC vendors shipped a total of 588,300 units in Singapore in the first half of 2015, a 12 percent growth over the same period last...
Week in Review: The slumbering dragon is awakening
Adding to the excitement of Tuesday’s What’s Next, 500 Startups is going to present the results of its pioneering study of 500 of the world’s...
Clock ticking for retailers, says What’s Next speaker
Adrian Vanzyl, chairman of Bangkok-based fulfillment startup aCommerce, says that traditional retailers have just a 12-month window to get into e-commerce. You can catch him...
#sowhoknew: A ‘dislike’ button on Facebook? I dislike…
Mark Zuckerberg has finally raised the notion of introducing a ‘dislike’ button on Facebook but it seems that many users (myself included) believe the idea...
Chinese millennials love spending on luxury products most in APAC
Millennials in China are the biggest purchasers of luxury goods in Asia Pacific, followed by South Korea and Hong Kong, according to data by Mastercard....
Microsoft Asia appoints VP for Microsoft Business Solutions
Microsoft has appointed Simon Davies as its new vice president of Microsoft Business Solutions for Asia. Mr Davies will be responsible for the full portfolio...
Facebook introduces 360-degree video feature
After YouTube’s launch of 360-degree videos, Facebook has also introduced the feature and will begin rolling out 360-degree videos in News Feed from September 23....
