Tag: telecom

The high in fintech funding was mainly attributed to two of Asia's 10 biggest deals - with a combined value of over US$130 million - taking place in Singapore in the fourth quarter. The deals are mobile commerce startup GoSwiff's US$100 million purchase by ... ( read original story ...)

Is this in Singapore?" In the video, a student can be seen bullying continuously one of his classmates. The video showed that two students were throwing chairs to a boy who was seated at his table in a classroom with his mobile phone. While one boy failed ... ( read original story ...)

Photographer captures the dual lives of Singapore Armed Forces NSmen in stunning photo project New telco Zero1 is launching unlimited mobile data plans at the cut-throat price of $19 a month This Singapore Casket ad for Valentine’s Day is fake as hell ... ( read original story ...)

SINGAPORE - Media OutReach - 19 February 2018 - SendGold , a Gold-as-a-Service app that enables physical gold investment and payments in a digital environment, today announced the March 2018 launch of its app in Singapore. With the growing demand for gold ... ( read original story ...)

The interest in fintech has resulted in the rise of new e-payment schemes in Singapore, however, this also presents a challenge in infrastructure, BMI Research revealed. A report revealed that the unique mobile payments such as NetsPay, DBS Paylah ... ( read original story ...)

Two of the top 10 deals in Asia took place in Singapore during Q4 of 2017. Mobile commerce startup GoSwiff brought in $100 million in funding whereas, global asset management fintech player Smartkarma raised $13.5 million, according to KPMG’s Pulse of ... ( read original story ...)

On the same day, desktop saw a 164% sales increase in Singapore, followed by mobile app (134%) and mobile web (105%). Local fashion marketers told us that they in fact, started pushing out Chinese New Year campaigns between December until three weeks ... ( read original story ...)

SINGAPORE (Nikkei Markets) -- Singapore's exports rose more than expected in January although the decline in electronics underlined the widely held view that the global semiconductor rally is fading and that the city-state's trade dependent economy would ... ( read original story ...)

"Singtel and Ericsson have a common goal of delivering the best mobile network in Singapore by seamlessly combining both FDD and TDD technologies in one 4G LTE network," Ericsson country manager for Singapore, Brunei, and the Philippines Martin Wiktorin said. ( read original story ...)

SINGAPORE - Smartphone users in Singapore will soon be able to enjoy a mobile speed of 1Gbps. Singtel said on Monday (Feb 12) that it has achieved this peak mobile speed using Ericsson's quad-band FDD/TDD Carrier Aggregation (CA) technology. This will ... ( read original story ...)

Speculative cryptocurrency investors are negatively impacting on experimentation with the nascent technology, an executive at Singapore's central bank said Monday. Sopnendu Mohanty, chief fintech officer of the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS), told ... ( read original story ...)

Competition in Singapore’s mobile market is heating up quickly as the city state gained its third MVNO within the last two years. Zero1 was scheduled to open registration on is website today (12 February), with its official launch coming next month ... ( read original story ...)

Ericsson said telecom operator Singtel has achieved the world’s first 1Gbps mobile speed on its quad-band FDD/TDD Carrier Aggregation (CA) technology. Singtel, a telecom operator in Singapore, can optimise the usage of its 2500 MHz spectrum band in order ... ( read original story ...)

SINGAPORE - Surging car sales as well as a brisk trade in mobile devices helped the retail sector end 2017 on a robust note. Total retail takings grew 4.6 per cent in December compared with the same month a year earlier, according to latest data by the ... ( read original story ...)

... is merging with Spring Singapore to form the new Enterprise Singapore agency - is at the helm of the ITM, which will also aim to help wholesalers like Song Fish to tap on technology to cope better with peak business periods like Chinese New Year ... ( read original story ...)

Mobile advertising will be a $1.2 billion market by 2020, says a recent research report by Singapore-based global mobile advertising and discovery platform InMobi. The report, which highlights the shift in Internet usage pattern in the country from desktop ... ( read original story ...)