Author: Yimie Yong

Co-hosted by Wanxiang Blockchain Labs and HashKey Group, and organized by W3ME, the Hong Kong Web3 Festival 2023 will take place from April 12 to 15.

This cross-border QR code payment linkage is made possible through the strong collaboration of various industry players from both countries, including Payments Network Malaysia Sdn. Bhd. (PayNet), Network for Electronic Transfers (Singapore) Pte. Ltd (NETS), the Association of Banks in Singapore, and participating financial institutions from both countries.

The open letter came as tech giants and AI startups are rushing to develop better and more powerful AI systems to rival ChatGPT, the artificial intelligence chatbot developed by AI startup OpenAI which has gained popularity almost instantly.

Apple's launch of BNPL service came at a time when some see the hype around BNPL is fading. During or even before the pandemic, BNPL has seen strong growth in Europe, United States, Australia and Southeast Asia, although it is starting to stir concerns among regulators that it could cause youngsters, who are often seen as financially naive, to overspend and…

It was reported that Alibaba intends to split its operations into six standalone units, each managed by a different chief executive.

Currently there are around 1,000 Thai startups with the VC landscape in Thailand being dominated by corporate venture capitals (CVCs). Surprisingly during the height of the covid-19 pandemic three unicorn startups have emerged from Thailand being Bitkub, Ascend and Flash Express.

Rafizi said on Wednesday the initiative had been carried out with the cooperation between his ministry and the Ministry of Science, Technology and Innovation since two months ago.

Malaysia's government has been wanting to boost and support the local startup ecosystem with various initiatives and policies. On Thursday, Malaysia’s sovereign fund Khazanah Nasional Berhad announced the launch of the Future Malaysia Program to support the local start-up ecosystem of entrepreneurs, start-ups, venture capital, and corporate venture programs…

B Capital has closed its inaugural B Capital Healthcare Fund I at $500 million earlier of the month.

It is worth noting that GPT-4 can accept a prompt of text and images, which—parallel to the text-only setting—lets the user specify any vision or language task.