Amazon announced at the inaugural Amazon Southeast Asia Online Seller Summit 2021 additional resources and support for small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) in Singapore to start selling online and expand globally through its stores. Amazon announced that it is extending the waiver of professional selling account subscription fees for new and existing...
The Singapore Business Federation (SBF) has released findings from a new business poll, highlighting that two in three Singapore businesses have been moderately to severely affected by the ongoing Middle East conflict, as rising energy and logistics costs affect operations and demand. While firms are actively managing costs and pivoting...
CloudMile has offered small- and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in Singapore, Malaysia and the Philippines free migration to the cloud from June 2022. Powered by its capabilities in cloud, AI, machine learning, and big data analytics, CloudMile will support SMEs as they embark on cloud migration, a key first step...
The Singapore Business Federation (SBF) launched its Singapore Women Entrepreneurs Network (SG-WEN) at the SBF Center. SG-WEN aims to bring together women entrepreneurs in Singapore and connect them with other women entrepreneurs, business leaders and trade associations in the Asia-Pacific, in particular the ASEAN member states. More than 300 entrepreneurs and...
ABI Research recently completed its 2024 Manufacturers' Technology Adoption & Attitudes Survey, a comprehensive survey of 461 manufacturing decision-makers across the United States, Malaysia, and Germany to uncover real-world attitudes, adoption trends, and valuable insights that reflect the current technological landscape within the manufacturing industry. When asked which criteria were most important when evaluating a...
DHgate, a cross-border e-commerce marketplace in China has shared market trends for merchants to observe and follow during an uncertain time. From opportunism to long-termism In the past three years, cross-border e-commerce has experienced a booming time and also a slowdown due to various factors, such as the COVID-19 pandemic and inflation. While...
An IDC report titled How Generative AI Is Set to Play a Leading Role in IT Operations reveals the transformative role of generative AI (GenAI) within IT operations (ITOps) across the Asia/Pacific region. IDC’s 2023 Future Enterprise Resiliency and Spending (FERS) Survey, Wave 6, highlights that almost half (43%) of...
In light of emerging trends in the wholesale trade sector, including increasing digitalisation (52%) and an emphasis on sustainability in wholesale trade processes (43%), more than nine in ten wholesale trade leaders agree (31% strongly agree, 64% somewhat agree) that new job roles will be created while existing ones...
Malaysia's COVID cases have increased at an alarming rate in January 2021, with 42,397 active cases and 642 accumulative deaths, resulting in MCO implementation 2.0. Many small business owners and big enterprises are directly impacted by the unfortunate circumstances that come with the virus that alerted society globally in...
SAP SE, an international cloud company of German origin, announced on 17 October the launch of its Singapore Data Centre for SAP Commerce Cloud for businesses across the Asia Pacific (APAC) region. This promises the ability for them to deliver superior customer experiences by adopting new digital commerce strategies. This comes as digital commerce sales in APAC are...