CB Insights has unveiled the second annual Retail Tech 100 — a list of the top private companies using technology to reshape the shopping experience and make retail operations move faster and sell more.  The 2022 Retail Tech 100 cohort has raised approximately $25.4B in...
Sophos has released additional findings from its survey report, The Future of Cybersecurity in Asia Pacific and Japan, in collaboration with Tech Research Asia (TRA), revealing businesses are increasingly prioritising budget for cybersecurity. In 2022, 11 per cent of technology budgets are dedicated to...
Ogury commissioned IDC to conduct a global survey on 1,000 major brand and media agency executives, to get their perspective and understanding of the future of digital advertising in a cookieless world. Most of the polled executives (60%) agree that user tracking will soon become obsolete.
Southeast Asian sellers are adapting to a new era of omnichannel retail, according to findings from Lazada's Q4 2021 Digital Commerce Confidence Index (DCCI). Even as the last quarter of the year saw higher mobility and return of foot traffic to physical stores as COVID-19 restrictions...
Altair has released results from an international survey which revealed high rates of adoption and implementation of organizational data and AI strategies globally. The survey also revealed that project successes suffer due to three main types of friction: organizational, technological, and financial.
A survey by Chubb of Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) in Singapore reveals that despite a rise in cyber risk, SMEs remain unprepared to deal with the potential consequences. The second annual Chubb SME Cyber Preparedness Report 2019 – ‘Ignorance is Risk’ released in October, revealed that with increasing...
Ensign InfoSecurity (Ensign), one of the largest pure-play cybersecurity companies in Asia Pacific, officially launched its global headquarters and its new Security Operations Centre (SOC), in Singapore on September 16, 2019. This strengthens Singapore’s position as a cybersecurity hub, enhancing cyber resiliency for organisations in the region. According...
Singaporean multinational banking corporation United Overseas Bank (UOB) and OctoRocket.asia (OctoRocket), a business to business e-commerce platform, have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) to enable small businesses in ASEAN on OctoRocket to apply for financing quickly and easily.  OctoRocket, a joint venture launched...
DBS Bank has completed the first trade financing settlement through through vCargo Cloud’s CamelONE Trade Finance portal (TFP) – with another two transactions slated to close in early March. The inaugural transaction relates to an SGD 4.8 million letter of credit transaction by homegrown steel wholesaler and...
Appier has announced the launch of BotBonnie, an omnichannel conversational marketing platform. This marks Appier's debut in the conversational commerce and marketing space. BotBonnie is available across the Asia Pacific markets in English, Japanese and Traditional Chinese. According to Gartner, customer loyalty is created when businesses...