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Adobe report finds Singapore firms lagging behind generative AI adoption
Adobe report finds Singapore firms lagging behind generative AI adoption. Brands in Singapore are prioritizing customer experiences to drive growth, but are challenged by reduced budgets.
Antitrust approval could be biggest hurdle for Grab’s potential acquisition of Foodpanda’s business, analysts say
Momentum Works, a venture outfit, estimated Foodpanda's Southeast Asia GMV at $3.1 billion in 2022. According to the same report, Foodpanda ranked second by market share in Singapore, Malaysia and the Philippines, and third in Thailand in 2022.
Tracxn : SEA tech startups witness lowest quarterly funding in five years
Southeast Asia (SEA) funding has seen a big drop of 74 percent in quarter-on-quarter in the third quarter, making it the lowest funded quarter in the last five years, said Tracxn on Thursday. the SEA tech startup ecosystem raised a total of $835 million in the third quarter, a huge 74 percent drop from $3.2 billion raised in the second quarter of 2023 and a…
Indonesia bans e-commerce transactions on social media platforms such as TikTok – report
The government said the move, which takes effect immediately, is aimed at protecting offline merchants and marketplaces, adding that predatory pricing on social media platforms is threatening small and medium-sized enterprises.
AtoZero Asean 2023 to be held in KLCC, Malaysia from Oct 4-6
AtoZero, or “Accelerate To Net Zero”, is a new series of events bringing together key decision makers and changemakers to comprehensively explore pathways, policies and business opportunities that will catalyse an acceleration of net zero pathways.
Funding Societies raises $27 million in debt funding from institutional investors
Funding Societies | Modalku, the largest unified small and medium enterprises (SME) digital finance platform in Southeast Asia, announced on Tuesday that it has successfully raised debt of $27 million. The funding was led by Asia-focused private credit financier AlteriQ Global, with multi-family office Aument Capital Partners (ACP), and…
Vietnamese Internet Platform VNG postpones US IPO – report
VNG has been exploring going public in the US since at least 2017.
Delivery Hero’s foodpanda’s business could be sold to Grab? – report
Delivery Hero plans to sell its activities under the foodpanda brand in Singapore, Cambodia, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar, the Philippines and Thailand.
UnaFinancial: share of fintech in the GDP of Singapore will reach 3.56 percent in 2027
Analysts of UnaFinancial has projected that share of fintech in the gross domestic product (GDP) of Singapore will reach 3.56 percent in 2027. In 2022, 0.32 percent of Southeast Asia (SEA)’s GDP consisted of venture and other investments in the fintech industry. By 2027, this share is projected to reach 1.65 percent, growing five times.
Japan’s Terra Drone expands to precision agriculture sector after acquiring Avirtech
Terra Drone Corporation, a drone and Urban Air Mobility (UAM) technology provider based in Japan, has expanded into the precision agriculture sector by acquiring the business of Avirtech, a startup providing agricultural drone spraying and mapping service in Southeast Asia.
