Google has announced the AI Opportunity Fund: Asia-Pacific to help people in the region fill their skill gaps regarding artificial intelligence. The fund has $15 million to help people learn about AI.
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Governments across the world have imposed bans of varying degrees on TikTok, however, Nepal has gone further to ban the app across the entire country in a decision made in a cabinet meeting today.
Microsoft has put out a warning about Chinese state-sponsored actors, Volt Typhoon. It is apparently targeting US infrastructure with the objective of disrupting communications with Asia.
Singapore aims to win its "fair share" of semiconductor investments amidst growing trade tensions between China and the United States, focusing on semiconductor assembly and design.
Intel and Italy are close to a deal that will see a chip manufacturing facility be built in the country. The deal is worth $5 billion and will help Europe reduce its dependence on Asia for chips.
Following its massive success in western markets, and with supply chain issues finally being resolved, the Steam Deck portable gaming PC by Valve is soon officially coming to parts of Asia.
LG has announced the LG K61, LG K51S, and LG K41S. Each mid-range device will launch in the Americas, Europe, and Asia but the South Korean firm has not provided any information on pricing.
Globe Telecom is launching 5G broadband in the Philippines next month. It's the first company to launch this service in South East Asia. The network operates using some Huawei hardware components.
Match Group has said that it will soon launch Tinder Lite. The app aims to get users in developing countries onto the platform. The firm is just the latest to launch a Lite app to reach more users.
Netflix has unveiled a new plan in Malaysia that is restricted to mobile devices, and comes in at a much cheaper RM17 ($4) per month. Netflix is also running similar trials in other places.
Google is reportedly investing $550 million in Chinese e-commerce platform JD.com in an attempt to expand its efforts in the Asian market, though it's still unclear how this will be done.
Microsoft has signed an agreement with energy provider Sunseap to purchase 100% of the output of the latter's solar power installation. This will be the largest project of its kind in Singapore.
Vivaldi 1.14 has now been released. It includes vertical reader mode for reading pages in Chinese, Japanese, and Korean which are formatted vertically; and Markdown support has been added to Notes.
Netflix's Chief Content Officer, Ted Sarados, has announced that the company will increase content spending by a further $1 billion next year - raising the total to a huge $7 billion.
Apple will open a new store in Taipei on Saturday. It's the second store to open in Asia in as many months. This store introduces "Today at Apple" hands-on sessions which cover several topics.
Uber will be expanding its UberEATS food delivery service to six major cities in India by the end of this year. Mumbai is likely to be the first city where the service will begin its operations.
Apple has quietly launched a 32GB model of the three-year-old iPhone 6 via select carriers in Asian markets. The device is already on sale in some areas and is available for pre-order in others.
Uber has started mapping Asia's roads to collect data on customer's travel routes, traffic patterns and pickup & drop off locations. Singapore is the first country to begin the mapping process today.
A study released by the United Nations University has found e-waste in East and Southeast Asia has increased fast from 2010 to 2015. The finding follows a worldwide trend of increased consumption.
Akamai has released its latest State of the Internet report, for the second quarter of 2016. The report shows Asian and European countries leading the way in terms of average connection speeds.
Ever since we made the move into 2014, Microsoft has been playing from behind when comparing the sales of the Xbox One versus the PlayStation 4. Could September mark a momentum shift?
Samsung has announced a new video streaming serviced that is named "Project Glue." This will bring TV shows from the U.S. and Britain to Asia, starting with the Philippines as well as Singapore.
Microsoft announced today that it is cutting prices on the Xbox 360 in four Asian regions by as much as 20 percent in an effort to expand the audience for the video game console. The...
A new pact formed last week between 17 major telecommunications companies hopes to avoid a repeat of what occurred last December. An undersea earthquake off the coast of Taiwan disrupted Internet cables, causing communications to...
Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates cited a survey done in the United States on "where will the next big success and where the next Bill Gates come from" when visiting the town of Boao in south...
Intel Corp., the world's largest microchip maker, said on Thursday it expected to implement trials of the emerging wireless broadband technology called "WiMax" in Malaysia, Thailand and the Philippines by year-end. Intel, which...
THEY SAY NO GOOD DEED goes unpunished. Microsoft's mission to bring cheap Windows to the Asian masses has got off to a very slow start. Windows XP Starter Edition, a cut down version of the...
HP has announced plans to launch a low cost PC in China. At $483, HP hopes the PC will be cheap enough to keep it active in a high competition, high growth market. The PC...
Microsoft Corp said on Thursday it would kick off its Xbox Live online gaming service in Taiwan, Hong Kong and Singapore in April, making inroads into Asian markets dominated by Sony's PlayStation 2 console. The...
Micron Technology Inc. said it anticipates more than 50 percent of its revenue would be generated in southeast Asia within a few years with China, Hong Kong and Japan accounting for a significant portion of...
China has consolidated its position as Intel Corp's number two market since surpassing Japan last year, and now accounts for more than half of regional consumption ex-Japan, its Asia Pacific chief said on Thursday. ...
IBM Corp. plans to move up to several thousand skilled software jobs from the United States to India, China and other countries, which could amount to one of the biggest such actions yet in the...
SOFTWARE PIRATES have made an early beta copy of Microsoft Longhorn available on CD, but it's years before the OS will be released. The Longhorn alpha is a pirated version of the edition distributed to...
A plan by Japan, China and South Korea to develop an operating system alternative to Microsoft's Windows software could raise concerns over fair competition, Microsoft said Friday. Japan, the world's second-largest economy,...
All of the Asia-Pacific territories where Microsoft sells the Xbox, with the sole exception of Japan, have seen the price of the console and its software slashed this week in an attempt to compete more...
China, Korea and Japan are running out of time. Governments and academics from the three countries are teaming up, putting aside troubled histories to avert a common disaster. The issue: Asia's well...
LONDON, England (Reuters) -- A new computer virus, the "Fizzer" worm, spread rapidly across the Internet on Monday, infecting computer users in Asia, Europe and the United States, anti-virus officials said. Businesses in...
Last week it was Apple: this week it is the turn of Japanese PC makers NEC and Sony and Korean maker Trigem to follow suit. They are increasing prices in Asia, citing...
Sun Microsystems' telecommunications partners in Asia will announce deeper use of Sun's Java software in mobile phones and back-end networks next week at the first JavaOne conference in Japan, a Sun executive said. ...
SINGAPORE--Internet traffic from Asia to the US has slowed to a snail's pace due to two impaired undersea cables. "There appears to be a damage to some circuits on the China-US and...
