The Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (Trai) has issued a consultation paper seeking feedback on plans to auction off a ton of spectrum for 5G usage – but so far the initial feedback from cellcos is Read more…
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – Expedia chief executive Dara Khosrowshahi is poised to accept Uber Technologies’ offer to become its new CEO, according to an internal memo sent to Expedia staff, putting him in charge of Read more…
Ericsson and Hong Kong cellco SmarTone have announced a successful trial of Licensed Assisted Access (LAA) technology in a live over-the-air demonstration in Hong Kong. LAA allows the use of unlicensed spectrum in the 5-GHz Read more…
(Reuters) – Wearable device maker Fitbit on Monday launched its newest device, the Ionic smartwatch, with features ranging from fitness tracking to contactless payment, as it gears up to compete with rivals such as Apple. Read more…
BEIJING (Reuters) – Chinese regulators are preparing new regulations on digital coin offerings and may ban them until the rules are in place, the financial magazine Caixin reported on Monday, as interest in the new Read more…
The next global technological race is said to be on artificial intelligence (AI) – a technology widely recognized as one of the most important advancements of our time. It is easy to fall into the Read more…
SEOUL (Reuters) – The billionaire head of South Korea’s Samsung Group, Jay Y. Lee, was sentenced to five years in jail for bribery on Friday in a watershed for the country’s decades-long economic order dominated Read more…
We spend a lot of time talking about cyber security, hacking and malware here at Disruptive.Asia. And so we should – it is one of the issues of our age. Generally we do it from the “something Read more…
HONG KONG (Reuters) – JD.com Inc has invested in ride-hailing startup PT Go-Jek Indonesia, in another sign that China’s second-largest e-commerce firm is tapping growth in Southeast Asian mobile-based services, people familiar with the matter Read more…
The Philippines face growing challenges from online video piracy, and the best weapon to combat it is for service providers to provide high quality, convenient and legal content as an alternative. That’s according to an Read more…
SYDNEY (Reuters) – Drones equipped with a shark detection system powered by artificial intelligence will start patrolling some Australian beaches from next month in a bid to improve safety. The battery-powered drones will provide a Read more…
Telstra has launched its Security Operation Centre (SOC) in Sydney, from which the incumbent telco plans to offer a range of services to help government and enterprise customers manage their cyber security. The Sydney SOC Read more…
PCCW Global has launched Restoration On Demand, a Network-as-a-Service offering that enables its customers to rapidly reroute their connections to an alternate network path in the event of an undersea cable failure, restoring their international Read more…
SINGAPORE (Reuters) – Ride-hailing firm Grab, the main Southeast Asian rival of Uber Technologies Inc, said it would commit $100 million over the next three years to deepen its presence in Myanmar, grow to more Read more…
SINGAPORE (Reuters) – Researchers who warned half a dozen robot manufacturers in January about nearly 50 vulnerabilities in their home, business and industrial robots, say only a few of the problems have been addressed. The Read more…
Hands up – I’m an analyst. Except I stopped calling myself that a long time ago. Why? Well, apart from the similarity to the word ‘analist’, which does tend to describe our obsession with detail, Read more…
JAKARTA (Reuters) – Indonesian authorities have uncovered a group spreading hate speech and fake news online, one of many that they fear could undermine national unity. Indonesia has an ethnically diverse population of 250 million Read more…
Reuters) – WeWork Cos said on Thursday it received an additional $3 billion investment from Japan’s SoftBank Group and its Vision Fund, helping the shared-office startup ramp up its expansion globally. SoftBank’s investment will be Read more…
Asian countries, especially emerging ones, are most exposed to malware, according to the latest edition of Microsoft’s Security Intelligence Report (SIR). Of the top locations across the globe most at risk of malware infection in Read more…
Cloudera announced that it has forged a strategic partnership with Tech Data to accelerate turnkey smart city and IoT projects across ASEAN. Under the partnership, Tech Data will become Cloudera’s first ASEAN distributor, and will Read more…
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