Category: TECHNOLOGY

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employee operational experience is crucial to attracting and retaining millennials Singapore companies' reliance on outdated technology resulted in a service experience gap which in turn lowers employee productivity, according to a report by ...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

Select Group sees a replacement of human workers by machines, and a higher reliance on electronic payments and digital communication, as the unavoidable future of an industry that has lagged others in Singapore in adopting new technology, managing director ... ( read original story ...)

Singapore, a leading global FinTech hub has a vibrant and collaborative FinTech ecosystem comprising of 270+ FinTech startups, several technology companies, financial institutions, investors, accelerators, research institutes and institutes of higher learning. ( read original story ...)

Venzha is also listed as one of the speakers for the "Conversation: Dream Space" discussion during the opening day alongside notable figures, such as the exhibition curator Jukka Nurminen, Singapore Space & Technology Association (SSTA) director Lynette Tan. ( read original story ...)

Solution enables signification reduction in back-and-forth emails and improves productivity. Singapore technology startup mimetic.ai announced the launch of Evie, an artificial intelligence (AI) scheduling assistant that helps you organise business ... ( read original story ...)

Following the master plan, the academic campus is designed through two main axes: the living and learning spines, which overlap to create a central point and bind together all corners of the campus. At the centre of this node, UNStudio proposed a flexible ... ( read original story ...)

"As our largest branch office in Asia-Pacific, the Singapore Innovation Center reinforces BNY Mellon's commitment to the region's advancement in transformational technology in financial services and compliments the Monetary Authority of Singapore's ... ( read original story ...)

SINGAPORE — With advances in medicine and technology promising to enable earlier detection of diseases and make prediction of diseases possible, how can doctors make good use of it to improve care for their patients? A conference and expo next August ... ( read original story ...)

For a start, researchers at the Agency for Science, Technology and Research used computer models to study crowd movements at an exhibition at the Suntec Singapore Convention and Exhibition Centre earlier this year. Such maps could also be useful for the ... ( read original story ...)

PMI sits at 50.8, up from 50.3 in the preceding month. Singapore's October manufacturing purchasing managers' index (PMI) remained in expansion mode. Although the headline number dipped by 0.1 to 50, this was the second month of expansion for the sector. ( read original story ...)