Facebook Singapore – in partnership with the Singapore Tourism Board (STB) Marketing College and Enterprise Singapore (ESG) – will launch a series of training sessions via webinars to help small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic, pivot their business operations and upskill workers to prepare for...
IPOS International and the Singapore University of Social Science (SUSS) will jointly offer full complimentary access to a nine-hour online training course on leveraging a company’s intellectual property (IP) assets for business growth, from 13 April 2020 to 4 May 2020, which coincides with Singapore’s COVID-19 ‘Circuit Breaker’ period.   The course...
The 11th APAC Small Business Survey conducted by CPA Australia reveals that 44 per cent of small businesses in Hong Kong had sought external funds for survival in 2019, while 25 per cent of respondents experienced difficulties in paying debts last year and 29 per cent expected the difficulty...
Enterprise Singapore (ESG) rolled out the Food Delivery Booster Package on 4 April 2020. This supports F&B businesses in transforming their business models and meet the needs of digitally-connected consumers. The package will help to reduce the business costs of selling on three key food delivery platforms – Deliveroo, foodpanda and...
Enterprise Singapore (ESG) launched the E-Commerce Booster Package on 2 April. This supports SME retailers with little or no e-commerce experience in starting their business transformation by selling online. The Package supports 90% of the cost for retailers to on-board e-commerce platforms for domestic and/or overseas markets. ESG will also provide...
While large corporations have the resources to engage enterprise level solutions, and small teams may find that free tools suffice, mid-level companies often find themselves caught in-between. In the second part of our interview with Dharmesh Shah, SMEhorizon discusses how such mid-level companies can also benefit from content creation...
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 dining in,...
While every entrepreneur dreams of making it big, finding truly ground breaking ideas, complementary partners, and the right approach to the market isn’t always an easy task. In this two part feature, SMEhorizon speaks with Dharmesh Shah, Co-founder and CTO of HubSpot. Together with co-founder Brian Halligan, the CEO...
Fuji Xerox Asia Pacific announced today its expanded partnership with business process and document automation leader, Esker to launch its Esker Accounts Receivable solution (hereafter, the Solution) in Asia Pacific. The AI-driven, cloud-based solution enables different teams to collaborate more effectively and is compliant with standards in over 60...
Even as Singapore pushes to become cheque-free by 2025, cash cheques continue to be used by small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs), typically to pay staff salaries, get cash for daily business operations or pay vendors for services rendered. While cheque usage by OCBC Bank’s retail banking customers has fallen 40...