Category: TECHNOLOGY

AsianScientist (Nov. 23, 2016) - SGInnovate, Singapore’s concerted effort to take deep technology to the world, was launched on Tuesday to great fanfare. The crowd of researchers, innovators, venture capitalists and industry mentors was treated to a ... ( read original story ...)

Meanwhile, varsity partners including the National University of Singapore and Singapore Institute of Technology will also attach professors to SGInnovate to work with the industry players on areas such as AI, robotics, digital health and smart energy. ( read original story ...)

The scooter, developed by the National University of Singapore (NUS), is the city-state's latest experiment with driverless vehicles as it pushes ahead with its vision of using autonomous technology to help deal with the challenges of its limited land and ... ( read original story ...)

During the road trials, nuTonomy's software is expected to learn local signage and road markings, as well as build on behavioral knowledge gained during recent trials in Singapore. "These tests in the City of Boston will enable our engineers to adapt our ... ( read original story ...)

In her new column for Banking Technology, Devie Mohan, a fintech market strategist, looks at how Singapore has created a fintech ecosystem that is a major threat to the ones in London and Berlin. There are several studies at the moment analysing and ... ( read original story ...)

SINGAPORE: It took just one week for Aleya Gaba to fall in ... with the opening of a new school building with enhanced media technology facilities. The seven-storey Nixon Building was officially opened on Thursday (Nov 17). Two floors are taken up by ... ( read original story ...)

Steps to turn Singapore into a "smart" financial centre shifted up a gear yesterday with a series of new initiatives outlined by the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS). The tech-related moves range from areas like blockchain to insurance. MAS managing ... ( read original story ...)

SINGAPORE--Singapore's exports fell more sharply than expected in October, dragged down by both electronics and non- electronics shipments. Non-oil domestic exports fell 12.0% in October compared with a year earlier, after falling 5.0% in September ... ( read original story ...)

The electronics sector is a major drag. Singapore's non-oil domestic exports (NODX) fall further in October. It registered 12% YoY contraction following a 5% drop in September due to the decrease in both electronic and non-electronic NODX. Data from ... ( read original story ...)

Smart wearables grew by 69% in retail volume terms, reaching sales of 73,000 units in 2016. While smart wearables have not been entirely successful in breaking into the mainstream, adoption rates are still higher than in most other markets in Asia, apart ... ( read original story ...)

Singapore is all geared up to witness this year's Consumer Electronics Fair starting 17 November through 20 November at Suntec. The CEF 2016 is the latest tech show organised by the makers of IT Show and Comex, which opens up the rare opportunity to shop ... ( read original story ...)

Singapore has begun offering some of the same inducements ... Just saying…” Berlin, which has become a hub for young technology workers, took an even more aggressive approach. The city’s minister of the economy and technology wrote a letter to ... ( read original story ...)

In addition, OCBC Bank will extend the use of blockchain technology to other financial products and service applications. OCBC Bank’s latest fintech innovation initiative supports the Monetary Authority of Singapore’s (MAS) vision of a Smart Financial ... ( read original story ...)

Singapore’s Action Community of Entrepreneurship (ACE) signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with Vietnam’s National Agency for Technology Entrepreneurship and Commercialization Development (NATEC) earlier this morning. The MOU seeks to establish ... ( read original story ...)

Median voluntary employee turnover at technology companies in Singapore is now at 11.7% on a trailing 12-month basis. In 2017, technology sector salaries in Singapore are projected to increase by 4.4%, ahead of the 4.2% increase observed in 2016. ( read original story ...)

Intuitive employee operational experience is crucial to attracting and retaining millennials Singapore companies' reliance on outdated technology resulted in a service experience gap which in turn lowers employee productivity, according to a report by ... ( read original story ...)