Tvinci , an Israel-based “Over-the-Top” (OTT) platform, has started expanding its service to the rest of the world. Today it is announcing a partnership with MediaCorp , Singapore’s leading media company, in a move that will see its OTT platform power the lifestyle service Toggle, set...
Tvinci , an Israel-based “Over-the-Top” (OTT) platform, has started expanding its service to the rest of the world. Today it is announcing a partnership with MediaCorp , Singapore’s leading media company, in a move that will see its OTT platform power the lifestyle service Toggle, set...
Uber , the private car hire service that has taken the US by storm, has ramped up its global expansion plans after stepping into Asia for the first time with a soft launch in Singapore. There have been rumors of Uber’s launch in Singapore since October 2012 when tech blog SGE spotted ...
Uber , the private car hire service that has taken the US by storm, has ramped up its global expansion plans after stepping into Asia for the first time with a soft launch in Singapore. There have been rumors of Uber’s launch in Singapore since October 2012 when tech blog SGE spotted ...
Uber , the private car hire service that has taken the US by storm, has ramped up its global expansion plans after stepping into Asia for the first time after launching in Singapore. The move comes 11 months after CEO Travis Kalanick first raised the possibility of expanding into in A...
Singapore-based mobile rewards platform Gimmie has closed a SG$639,000 (circa US$520,000) round of investment led by local firm Wave Maker Labs , in partnership with the National Research Foundation , Tech In Asia reports. The funding is being raised to help the company expand across ...
Singapore-based mobile rewards platform Gimmie has closed a SG$639,000 (circa US$520,000) round of investment led by local firm Wave Maker Labs , in partnership with the National Research Foundation , Tech In Asia reports. The funding is being raised to help the company expand across ...
Ookbee , the Thailand-based e-publishing startup, has continued its growth across Southeast Asia after landing a partnership with Singapore Press Holdings (SPH), as E27 reports . Ookbee claims that its content store has a dominant 85 percent share of Thailand’s e-publishing market, an...
Ookbee , the Thailand-based e-publishing startup, has continued its growth across Southeast Asia after landing a partnership with Singapore Press Holdings (SPH), as E27 reports . Ookbee claims that its content store has a dominant 85 percent share of Thailand’s e-publishing market, an...
When it comes to money, there’s a lot of change going on. Money is one of society’s most embedded, ancient institutions; it doesn’t change quickly. Technology, on the other hand, changes at a rapid pace, and it has a habit of bringing about change at an unforeseen pace in all areas of...
A newly discovered malware variant is trying to trick users that it is not a threat by passing itself off as a component of Trend Micro , a security firm that sells security solutions. Furthermore, the Trojan drops a Bitcoin miner application to make the malware author money. While th...
A newly discovered malware variant is trying to trick users that it is not a threat by passing itself off as a component of Trend Micro , a security firm that sells security solutions. Furthermore, the Trojan drops a Bitcoin miner application to make the malware author money. While th...
Japanese operator NTT DoCoMo is expanding its international reach after revealing it will launch a wholly owned subsidiary in Singapore, offering a range of telecom services for Japanese speakers in the country. The new business is slated to begin operations on January 1 2013, and wil...
Japanese operator NTT DoCoMo is expanding its international reach after revealing it will launch a wholly owned subsidiary in Singapore, offering a range of telecom services for Japanese speakers in the country. The new business is slated to begin operations on January 1 2013, and wil...
Food journaling app Burpple has furthered its focus on social and location after it introduced Explore, a feature that brings Foursquare-like discovery and friend-finding to the service. Burpple, for those that are not aware, is a 6-month-old service where food lovers can snap, post a...
WordPress.com takes Bitcoin, Facebook spreads gifts, the BBC kicks off its original YouTube programming and Call of Duty: Black Ops II slays the competition. It’s all in today’s Daily Dose. You can catch The Daily Dose every Monday through Friday right here on The Next Web. Be sure to...
WordPress.com takes Bitcoin, Facebook spreads gifts, the BBC kicks off its original YouTube programming and Call of Duty: Black Ops II slays the competition. It’s all in today’s Daily Dose. You can catch The Daily Dose every Monday through Friday right here on The Next Web. Be sure to...
Automattic on Thursday announced you can now buy WordPress.com upgrades with Bitcoins, as part of the company’s mission of “making publishing democratic.” To justify the additional payment method, the company noted that PayPal alone blocks access from over 60 countries, and many credi...
Twitter has appointed its first pan-Asia executive (excluding those in Japan) after it nabbed Aliza Knox , formerly Managing Director of Commerce for Google in Asia Pacific, its second high-ranked Google Asia executive in six months, Techcrunch reports . The appointment comes some fiv...
Twitter has appointed its first pan-Asia executive (excluding those in Japan) after it nabbed Aliza Knox , formerly Managing Director of Commerce for Google in Asia Pacific, its second high-ranked Google Asia executive in six months, Techcrunch reports . The appointment comes some fiv...
A group of Bitcoin merchants have banded together to create Bitcoin Friday, their own take on Black Friday sales, the American Banker reports . Bitcoin Friday is set for the 9th of November. The goal of the event is to show consumers that transacting with Bitcoins can be cheaper and s...
A group of Bitcoin merchants have banded together to create Bitcoin Friday, their own take on Black Friday sales, the American Banker reports . Bitcoin Friday is set for the 9th of November. The goal of the event is to show consumers that transacting with Bitcoins can be cheaper and s...
A group of Bitcoin merchants have banded together to create Bitcoin Friday, their own take on Black Friday sales, the American Banker reports . Bitcoin Friday is set for the 9th of November. The goal of the event is to show consumers that transacting with Bitcoins can be cheaper and s...
A group of Bitcoin merchants have banded together to create Bitcoin Friday, their own take on Black Friday sales, the American Banker reports . Bitcoin Friday is set for the 9th of November. The goal of the event is to show consumers that transacting with Bitcoins can be cheaper and s...
DesignCrowd, the Australia-headquartered crowdsourcing service for designers, has kicked into the next gear of its international expansion after it entered Asia via launches in India, Singapore and the Philippines. In a nutshell, the site — which began as DesignBay before buying and m...
DesignCrowd, the Australia-headquartered crowdsourcing service for designers, has kicked into the next gear of its international expansion after it entered Asia via launches in India, Singapore and the Philippines. In a nutshell, the site — which began as DesignBay before buying and m...
Google has lasered in on Asia this week, after the search giant unveiled its Nexus 7 tablet in Japan and Korea and now the device is set to come to Singapore tomorrow. Singaporean fans shouldn’t expect a big event or stars like PSY — who put executive chairman Eric Schmidt through his...
Google has lasered in on Asia this week, after the search giant unveiled its Nexus 7 tablet in Japan and Korea and now the device is set to come to Singapore tomorrow. Singaporean fans shouldn’t expect a big event or stars like PSY — who put executive chairman Eric Schmidt through his...
Early in the month, we reported that the top US Bitcoin exchange, Bitfloor, had a security breach that resulted in a theft of Bitcoins worth $250,000 . At the time it was very much up in the air as to whether Bitfloor would be able to resume operation, but today it has announced that ...
Early in the month, we reported that the top US Bitcoin exchange, Bitfloor, had a security breach that resulted in a theft of Bitcoins worth $250,000 . At the time it was very much up in the air as to whether Bitfloor would be able to resume operation, but today it has announced that ...
