The market for buying goods online from other parts of the globe has gotten so big that it dwarfs the world’s largest economy. An EY study found that global cross-border payment flows are expected to reach US$156 trillion in 2022. Meanwhile, the United States GDP in 2020...
The online shopping space has been growing and evolving.  Merchants are constantly under pressure to deliver shopping experiences that make it easier for their shoppers. As a result, shoppers around the world, including those in the US and China, have embraced significantly improved checkout experiences in recent...
In a recent IDC Perspective titled Empathic Leadership for a Hybrid Future of Work, IDC analyzes the path forward from hierarchical to empathetic leadership to enable more effective hybrid work models. Additionally, this report also provides insights on the myths related to hybrid work, the differences between taking...
Rapid developments in the semiconductor industry have their downside: well-working equipment ends up in landfills prematurely due to technology obsolescence. This, according to Roger Poh, Director, J316, is the gap his homegrown company addresses, finding ‘new homes’ for these equipment through their extensive network of customers.
Trend Micro Incorporated has announced the findings of a new global study indicating that organizations are struggling to define and secure an expanding cyber-attack surface, hampering risk management efforts.The study revealed that three-quarters (73%) of global organizations are worried about their growing attack surface. Over a third (37%)...
More than four in five (84%) employers say that there is an increasing need for employees across various job roles and departments to have basic coding skills and knowledge. Nearly a third of employers (31%) say that a large proportion of job roles across...
A new report from Economist Impact commissioned by Crypto.com, Digimentality 2022: Fear and favouring of digital currency, provides a gauge of changes in consumer sentiment toward digital currencies and the trend toward a cashless society.In 2020 and 2021, Economist Impact conducted surveys to measure the relative acceptance of...
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...
Exabytes has partnered with Google Cloud to create SME Kick-Starter Bundles for SMEs in Singapore, Malaysia, and Indonesia. The three business bundles offer Google Workspace, along with a free domain and 50 gigabytes of free backup storage. The bundles aim to help SMEs to...
DBS Bank (Hong Kong) Limited and GS1 Hong Kong have launched a digital post-shipment trade financing solution powered by alternative data. With this offering, small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) on GS1 Hong Kong’s ezTRADE platform can utilise their trade data to access financing in...