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Month: December 2019

News

Internet shutdowns costing Indian telcos millions in lost revenue

December 31, 2019 News Centre 0

Indian mobile operators forced to suspend internet services on government orders to control protests are losing millions in revenue. Read more…

News

Grab and Singtel team up for digital banking licence in Singapore

December 31, 2019 News Centre 0

Grab Holdings and Singtel are forming a consortium to apply for a digital full bank licence in Singapore. Read more…

Features

Seasons Greetings

December 24, 2019 Tony Poulos 0

Seasons Greetings from all of us at Disruptive.Asia. Wishing you all the best for the holiday season and a fabulous 2020. Read more…

Cisco says AI capitalism no future predictions
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Here’s your future: AI disasters and the end of capitalism

December 24, 2019 John C. Tanner 0

You want end-of-year predictions? Here’s two to chew on: in 2020 at least one telco will be embarrassed by AI, and in 2030, capitalism will be kinda dead. Read more…

Features

Half of all fintech customers in Asia are married and have kids

December 24, 2019 News Centre 0

Married people with one or two kids comprise the highest share of customers of fintech lending services in Asia. Read more…

Features

New partnerships help telecom and tech companies go green

December 24, 2019 Guest Writer 0

Partnering with companies like Better Energy that provides subsidy-free, certified green energy helps leading telecom and technology firms go green. Read more…

News

Facebook group used fake faces to push pro-Trump message

December 24, 2019 News Centre 0

Facebook has taken down a well-financed campaign that used dozens of artificially generated faces to spread pro-Trump and anti-Chinese messages. Read more…

News

SoftBank’s $3bn WeWork financing talks stall with Japan banks

December 24, 2019 News Centre 0

SoftBank Group Corp’s talks to secure $3 billion from Japan’s three biggest banks have stalled as the lenders have hit internal lending limits to the firm. Read more…

Facebook OS
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Facebook is building its own OS – lifeboat or new foundation?

December 23, 2019 Alex Leslie 0

In an age where collaboration, co-operation and openness are king, news that Facebook is to build its own OS has caused much comment. Read more…

Features

US losing ground as innovation powerhouse to China and Korea

December 23, 2019 News Centre 0

China and South Korea will leverage their robust and diverse innovation portfolios in solidifying their innovation positions regionally and globally. Read more…

News

India leads the world in internet shutdowns

December 23, 2019 News Centre 0

As of 2018, India led the world in internet shutdowns, according to a report by internet advocacy group Access Now, accounting for 67% of world total. Read more…

News

Government study finds racial bias in facial recognition tools

December 23, 2019 News Centre 0

Many facial recognition systems misidentify people of colour more often than white people amounting to racial bias, according to a US government study. Read more…

News

US Navy bans TikTok from government-issued mobile devices

December 22, 2019 News Centre 0

US Navy has banned the social media app TikTok from government-issued mobile devices saying it represented a “cybersecurity threat.” Read more…

News

Foreign investors flocking to buy Chinese tech stocks

December 22, 2019 News Centre 0

Foreign investors are on their longest spell of buying Chinese stocks this year, increasing their bets on the mainland markets. Read more…

Predictions
Features

Friday Futures: Thousands more galaxies, the end of the world

December 20, 2019 Alex Leslie 0

This week: end of the world (as we know it); gene therapy; predictions; Nicholas Negroponte; more galaxies spotted; speed bumps and the need for speed. Read more…

fintech player
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Fintech player taps Malaysia’s inclusivity drive for 2020

December 20, 2019 Avanti Kumar 0

Malaysian fintech company TFP Solutions will serve the unbanked in line with Malaysia ensuring the inclusivity theme of its digital transformation. Read more…

News

Mobile technology – biggest benefit on aid operations in 2019

December 20, 2019 News Centre 0

Mobile technology had the biggest benefit of all technology on aid operations in 2019, with drones and satellites also helping. Read more…

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Off the Wire

ZTE wins 2019 ATD Excellence in Practice Award

December 20, 2019 News Centre 0

ZTE Corporation today announced that it has been awarded with 2019 ATD Excellence in Practice (EIP) Award by Association for Talent Development (ATD) Read more…

News

Indians wage online social media battle against citizenship law

December 20, 2019 News Centre 0

Protests rage across Indian universities against a new citizenship law, students have taken to social media to wage battle online and organise demonstrations. Read more…

News

New battery taps seawater as alternative mineral source – IBM

December 20, 2019 News Centre 0

IBM has announced it has come up with a new battery technology that uses materials extracted from seawater and requires no cobalt Read more…

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