ST Electronics injects $12.6m new capital to its Thailand arm

This will boost its ongoing rail electronics business. Singapore Technologies Electronics Limited (ST Electronics) injected new capital of $12.6m into its Thailand subsidiary, according to a release by Singapore Technologies Engineering Ltd (ST Engineering). ( read original story ...)

Accenture snaps up marketing and sales firm Brand Learning

The Singapore office first started up in 2014 and hired Sandeep Khanna, former vice president of corporate marketing APAC at LG Electronics and head of marketing at Nokia and Akzo Nobel ICI Paints to grow the office. A year later, board partner Harriet de ... ( read original story ...)

Conversation With A PRC New Citizen

Recently, I was in Aljunied Town Centre Market buying fresh fruits and happened to come across a young PRC guy selling electronics and other daily necessities. He told me he moved to Singapore more than 10 years ago and currently staying in Sengkang ... ( read original story ...)

New lease of life for malls?

Mobile commerce will be the largest contributor to e-commerce's growth in Singapore, and mobile shopping spending here is expected to increase by 42 per cent this year, amounting to more than $1.2 billion. But e-commerce does not necessarily spell gloom ... ( read original story ...)

LaunchPad attracts more high-tech start-ups

The LaunchPad was established in 2015, to support young start-ups in Singapore. The study also found that while the LaunchPad was dominated by start-ups in the areas of Internet and mobile services in the beginning, this has shifted to more high-tech start ... ( read original story ...)

High costs, labour crunch will test Amazon Singapore

According to mobile app analytics firm App Annie, Amazon’s Prime Now app has been downloaded more than 88,000 times in Singapore on iOS and Google Play as of July 31. Already, Prime Now has shaken things up in Singapore’s e-commerce scene. Apart from ... ( read original story ...)

Rajeev Gooneratne new CEO of GENXT Sri Lanka

Generation Next Communications Pte Ltd.( GENXT), Singapore a leading mobile & IT distributor within Asia has appointed Rajeev Gooneratne as their new Chief Executive Officer to head the operations of Generation Next Communications Sri Lanka. Rajeev has ... ( read original story ...)

Top 20 Beaches Around Singapore Perfect for a Weekend Getaway

Singapore, the only island-city-country in the world is a ... They also have a private terrace and a garden place, a pool to spend some romantic hours in and a personal mobile phone with its own number. A luxurious villa that is exquisitely detailed ... ( read original story ...)

With Amazon hot on its heels, StarHub is ready to find partners

SINGAPORE -- With the entrance of Amazon.com to Singapore ... due to a drop in service revenue from mobile and Pay-TV services, as well as lower income grants and an increase in the cost of sales and services. Revenue in the second quarter fell 1.1% ... ( read original story ...)

The ghostly radio station that no one claims to run

This means that – compared to local radio, mobile phone and television signals – fewer waves ... shortwave stations like the BBC World Service are aimed at audiences from Senegal to Singapore. Both stations are broadcast from the same building. ( read original story ...)