Man charged by US with illegally shipping Nvidia chips to China

In early 2018, Yujun Chean and Prateek Jogani were selling car insurance with a cashback twist. Their Singapore startup, Vouch Insurtech, had just raised SGD1 million (then US$755,000) in seed...

Singapore’s war on scams has mostly been fought far from the victim: in police operations centres, bank back offices and, more recently, in rulebooks telling platforms what they must block....

When the Ministry of Trade and Industry raised Singapore’s 2026 growth forecast in August, most of the founders I talk to read it the way the headlines invited them to,...

Picture a Singapore account manager answering a Slack message at 10.47 pm, ninety seconds after it lands. Her manager did not ask for a reply tonight. Nobody will remember tomorrow...

Bitcoin rose 0.89 per cent to US$83,264.98 over the past 24 hours, a gain that looks modest when set beside the 1.12 per cent increase in the total crypto market...

What would you do with a 100Gbps home internet?

Bangkok-based financial health platform Salary Hero has raised US$7.6 million in a Series A round of investment led by Cento Ventures, with Malaysia’s Kairous Capital and M Venture Partners participating....

Longevity is having a moment. In the US, people pay up to US$2,499 for a full-body MRI and hundreds of dollars a month for peptide protocols, mostly out of pocket....

There is a particular kind of Southeast Asian optimism that treats Singapore like a geopolitical airlock. Walk in from Beijing or Shenzhen, shut the door behind you, register a Pte...

In 2024, Americans spent about US$170 billion on real estate commissions and other costs involved in transferring ownership of homes. The Bureau of Economic Analysis estimate, cited by the Federal...

A founder I know recently received two term sheets in the same week. The first was from a regional VC firm with a recognisable brand. The cheque was for US$1.5...

The new Apple TV 4K is coming soon to the Philippines. “The new Apple TV 4K is our most immersive home theater experience yet,” said Bob Borchers, Apple’s vice president...