Enterprise Singapore (ESG) and the Singapore Business Federation (SBF) look forward to expanding partnerships with Indonesia companies in priority sectors of manufacturing, infrastructure, digital economy, and consumer services. In partnership with ESG, SBF will be leading a business mission to Jakarta during Singapore...
DBS announced on 25 March a suite of digital solutions to support the F&B services industry which has about 8,000 establishments impacted by tightened safe distancing measures as a result of the COVID-19 situation.  With Singapore residents being encouraged to change their eating habits from dining out to...
Enterprise Singapore (ESG), the Infocomm Media Development Authority (IMDA) and the Heartland Enterprise Centre, Singapore (HECS) today announced that they will be driving digital transformation in heartland precincts through partnerships with curated digital solution providers. It will first be rolled out in three precincts...
Lemi, an exploration-driven social sharing platform based in Hong Kong, has announced the launch of a digital coupon service that supports businesses as they recover from losses incurred during the pandemic. Lemi's coupon service helps businesses generate an additional revenue stream and broaden their...
Xero has released two new reports highlighting the economic and emotional impact of the pandemic on small businesses across multiple countries. The Xero Small Business Insights (SBI) Special Report, “Pandemic Insights: Small Business Experience”, produced with AlphaBeta (part of Accenture), is based on anonymised...
Despite weathering some of the most challenging times ever faced in their entrepreneurial journey, Singapore’s SME community remains undaunted, with three-quarters of SME owners saying that they continue to be ‘optimistic’ and ‘determined’ to face the road ahead. However, in a sign of creeping...
In 2020, the world experienced an unprecedented public health crisis – the coronavirus pandemic.  This has impacted all sectors of society and forced enterprises, small businesses, governments and private institutions to pivot, in some cases extensively, to accelerate digital transformations and rethink the way innovation is achieved.
Trend Micro has revealed that it blocked 16.7 million high-risk email threats that slipped past webmail providers' native filters. This amounts to an increase of nearly a third on 2019 figures. The new statistics are provided by Trend Micro's Cloud App Security (CAS), an...
Six months into its launch, Maybank SME Digital Financing has approved RM1 billion of financing, benefitting more than 8,200 Small and Medium sized Enterprise (SME), of which 85% or 6,950 are start-ups & microenterprises. In addition, all applications that were eligible for instant decisions received their approval...
A new report based on the study Decoding Global Career Shifts states that 72 per cent of Asian workers are willing to retrain for new jobs in any case as they look towards the aftermath of the pandemic. On top of that, another 25 per cent...