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July 8th, 2018 | by
Alfred Siew In the Grab-Uber merger, the authorities here have been shown up in the fast-moving digital economy. They have been exposed and...
June 27th, 2018 | by
Alfred Siew When startups like oBike fail, do consumers have to pay the...
June 16th, 2018 | by
Alfred Siew The last thing each of these phone makers should worry about is the iPhone notch. They should be winning their arguments in the areas they are strong...
June 4th, 2018 | by
Alfred Siew If being a hub is the basic strategy, Singapore has to ask what role it will play in a new blockchain-enabled network without any central...
May 7th, 2018 | by
Alfred Siew With Grab and Uber, regulators could hardly say no to the merger, unless they stopped drivers from picking up passengers...
April 1st, 2018 | by
Alfred Siew People had high expectations - perhaps unrealistic ones - of technology solving many of today's problems. Grab merging with Uber shattered many...
March 23rd, 2018 | by
Alfred Siew Governments can and should compel the likes of Facebook to be more transparent about their practices, but they should not be depended on as the arbiters of...
March 19th, 2018 | by
Grace Chng Continuous learning, lifelong learning, re-skilling. They are clichés. Yet, these concepts are not going away, they are here to stay...
February 26th, 2018 | by
Alfred Siew There seems to be a lack of a wow factor of late. Some phone makers have even stayed away from launching new flagship phones at Mobile World Congress...
February 5th, 2018 | by
Alfred Siew As the bike sharing services here and elsewhere have shown, people tend to stop caring when they don't own the thing they are...
January 26th, 2018 | by
Alfred Siew It is good news that Nets and EZ-Link are coming together to make things easier for users. The question is why it has taken so...
January 23rd, 2018 | by
Grace Chng In Singapore, where people are the only resource the country has, women’s participation in ICT and Stem jobs is...
January 22nd, 2018 | by
Grace Chng Angry Birds took a mere 35 days to reach 50 million users. Radio took 38 years and television took 13...
January 14th, 2018 | by
Alfred Siew How does this court case change things for the pay-TV providers here? Will they get a boost in...
January 11th, 2018 | by
Alfred Siew What needs strengthening are more credible news sources, as well as the media literacy in people to discern fact from...
January 3rd, 2018 | by
Alfred Siew Consumers have reason to be excited - and worried - in the new year, if the technology shifts happening in 2017 are anything to go...
December 6th, 2017 | by
Alfred Siew If Amazon wants to ask people to pay for a subscription, even if it's a cheap S$2.99 a month for now, it should have a proper store in...
November 30th, 2017 | by
Grace Chng SGInnovate, the one-year-old government-owned company tasked to develop new deep tech innovations in Singapore, aims to invest in at least 20 deep tech startups founded in Singapore....
November 9th, 2017 | by
Alfred Siew The Personal Data Protection Commission said yesterday that NRIC details should only be disclosed when a "high level of fidelity" is needed to establish a person's...
October 9th, 2017 | by
Grace Chng While Singapore has made great advances in AI, it is not recognised as a top AI hub yet, according to a recent report from McKinsey Global...
