Author: TechNode Global Staff

Singapore has continued to lead in the payments sector, with funding for payments reaching over $319 million during the first nine months of 2025 — surpassing the total FinTech funding (of which payments is a subset) for Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, Thailand, and Vietnam combined, a report showed Wednesday.

Tala, the global financial infrastructure company, announced Wednesday a $100 million partnership deal with Malaysia-based bank CIMB to accelerate its launch in the fast-growing Vietnam market.

Penang has on Tuesday marked another major milestone under the Penang Silicon Design @5KM+ (PSD@5KM+) initiative, with the official opening of the Shared Lab for IC Design Validation & Characterization as a shared facility for Penang-based integrated circuit (IC) design companies, and the onboarding of its second batch of technology collaborators,…

Bridge Alliance, the alliance of leading mobile operators globally, announced Tuesday that Dr Ong Geok Chwee will be stepping down as Chief Executive Officer (CEO) at the end of March.

Global investment firm KKR and Singapore's communications technology group Singtel announced Wednesday they will fully acquire data center colocation services provider ST Telemedia Global Data Centers (STT GDC) at S$6.6 billion ($5.1 billion).

Maybank Investment Bank Research has returned from its recent visit to Malaysia's Penang road trip feeling optimistic as tech hardware players suggest that industry conditions are improving into 2026.

SoftBank Corp. announced Tuesday its wholly owned subsidiary SAIMEMORY Corp. has signed a collaborative agreement with Intel Corporation to advance the commercialization of Z-Angle Memory (ZAM), a next-generation memory technology designed for high capacity, high bandwidth and low power consumption.

Singapore will establish a national space agency on April 1 to help the country seize opportunities in the rapidly expanding space economy and strengthen its space capabilities, the Straits Times quoted Minister-in-charge of Energy and Science & Technology Tan See Leng as saying.

NetDragon Websoft Holdings Limited (NetDragon), a China-based technology firm, announced Monday that, together with its subsidiary, EDA (Thailand), it has joined forces to drive a government-backed artificial intelligence (AI) initiative aimed at building Thailand’s future-ready workforce by linking education, skills development, and productivity through an…

Nanyang Technological University (NTU) Singapore is launching three new space projects under Singapore’s Space Technology Development Program (STDP), marking a major step in accelerating the commercialization of space technologies developed in Singapore.