Inflation, rising healthcare costs, workforce shortages, and hospital staff burnout are all putting digital advancements in the centre of the healthcare transformation agenda in Southeast Asia. With consumers placing a higher priority on their health and wellness, existing healthcare systems need a quick reform to improve patient...
The first Singapore-China (Shenzhen) Smart City Initiative (SCI) Joint Implementation Committee (JIC) meeting was held on 17 June, helmed by the Ministry of Communications and Information’s Permanent Secretary, Yong Ying-I, and Shenzhen Mayor, Chen Rugui.
Eight Memoranda of Understanding (MOU) were also inked at...
Funding Societies, a SME digital financing platform, announced that it has achieved S$2 billion in disbursals of business financing to small and medium sized enterprises across the region. This milestone comes as the platform enters its sixth year of operations.
The amount is partly crowdfunded by over...
According to OCBC, Singapore’s small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) turned in a resilient performance in the second quarter of 2021 as their recovery from the COVID-19 pandemic continued to gain momentum despite the impact from the Heightened Alert measures in Singapore and prolonged COVID-19 disruptions to work...
Trend Micro Incorporated has predicted that global organizations will emerge more alert and better prepared in 2022 thanks to a comprehensive, proactive, cloud-first approach to mitigating cyber risk.
Trend Micro researchers predict that threat actors in 2022 will focus ransomware attacks on cloud and datacenter...
Johnson Controls has announced findings from its 15th annual Energy Efficiency Indicator Survey, which revealed that 62 percent of organizations surveyed expect to increase investments in energy efficiency, renewable energy, or smart building technology in 2022, indicating a return to pre-pandemic levels.
The latest...
Digitalising paper invoicing across Southeast Asia’s millions of small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs) is a major opportunity in the post-COVID era as economies ramp up digital transformation efforts to better weather future shocks.
Finance departments serve a fundamental role in every company, processing...
Nearly three quarters (73%) of CEOs believe global economic growth will decline over 2023, according to PwC's 26th Annual Global CEO Survey, which polled 4,410 CEOs in 105 countries and territories in October and November 2022.
The bleak CEO outlook is the most pessimistic CEOs have...
