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Grab helps Indonesia to be largest digital economy in SE Asia
Grab will invest US$2 billion into Indonesia with the capital invested by SoftBank, to accelerate the development of the country’s digital infrastructure. Read more…
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SEA internet economy to top $240b by 2025: study
SINGAPORE (Reuters) – Southeast Asia’s internet economy is expected to exceed $240 billion by 2025, a joint study by Google and Temasek Holdings showed, a fifth more than previously estimated, as more consumers use their Read more…
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5 trends blurring lines between humans and machines
Gartner says the 35 must-watch technologies represented on its latest Hype Cycle for emerging technologies has revealed five distinct emerging technology trends that will blur the lines between humans and machines. Democratized AI AI technologies Read more…
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Smartphone addiction: can we go from FOMO to JOMO?
A recent RISE panel addressed smartphone addiction. There’s no easy solution, but some users are already voluntarily unplugging – and loving it. Earlier this month we published a column by Mr Tony Poulos about the Read more…
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EU reps push for a digital economy tax at the G20 meeting
BUENOS AIRES (Reuters) – European finance leaders called for progress on global rules to tax the digital economy at a meeting of G20 finance ministers and central bankers in Argentina on Sunday, putting them at Read more…
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3 Hong Kong and Alibaba vow to develop HK digital ecosystem
3 Hong Kong and Alibaba Group have announced a strategic cooperation covering cloud computing, intelligent big data and IoT as well as infrastructure and information security to develop an ecosystem that underpins Hong Kong’s digital Read more…
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Women struggle to break China tech industry’s glass ceiling
BEIJING/SHANGHAI (Reuters) – Ms Li has a day job in the marketing department of one of China’s biggest tech firms. At night, she has a second career, livestreaming herself eating noodles or telling jokes in Read more…
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The digital economy doesn’t understand humans – ask me how I know
I am starting to lose faith in the digital world, and for all the wrong reasons. As a “digital devotee”, I have embraced online transactions of every type from the earliest days. Everything from emails Read more…
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‘Tokenomics’ could truly decentralize the digital economy
ICOs and cryptocurrencies became a big thing last year. Some people think they have changed the whole world, while others think they are the biggest bubble we’ve seen in a long time. The value of Read more…
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Telenor chief challenges his employees to boost digital skillsets
Telenor says its group CEO Sigve Brekke has challenged more than 30,000 employees in 12 countries to carry out 40 hours of training and education in 2018 to boost their digital skillsets in key competency Read more…