RUBE GOLDBERG

As countries incentivize widespread adoption of electric vehicles and advancements in range and competitive battery prices means electric vehicles are more affordable than ever, charging stations remain a challenge to overall market uptake.

According to the ‘Video Live Streaming Solutions Market Global Industry Forecast 2018 – 2026 Report’, the Live streaming market in China is currently the largest in the world, racking up USD4.4 billion of sales in 2018. Taiwan-based M17 Group Founder & CEO Joseph Phua shares his latest venture into this space with HandsUP, which promises to move plenty of stock for live-streaming sellers.

Myanmar-based startup Kargo aims to streamline logistics in South East Asia with its latest USD 800k pre-series A financing round led by Cocoon Capital, an early-stage venture capital firm in Singapore.

Agricultural distress has reduced discretionary spending of rural India. The Government says its working hard to counter the impacts of demonetisation and the introduction of the GST.

To celebrate Small Business Week in the United States, Star Mountain Capital CEO Brett Hickey shares his smarts on what SMBs need to look for when choosing an alternative lending partner to help their businesses thrive in a post GFC world.

India is set to double its airports infrastructure by 2040 as its civil aviation sector is projected to become the third largest market in the world by 2024 in terms of passenger traffic.

Norway is leading the charge in reducing global carbon emissions thanks to its healthy Norwegian Sovereign Wealth Fund, with India being one of its greatest benefactors in new green energy investments.

The outlook for the property market remains buoyant in Europe and Asia while the United States welcomes a return to a buyer’s market. We share which cities are in demand for commercial and residential investments around the globe.

According to Gartner, 90 percent of organizations purchasing public cloud IaaS will do so from an integrated IaaS and PaaS provider by 2022. To help understand the demand to ‘democratize software’, we sat down with ManageEngine Head of Global Marketing Ajay Kumar about Site24x7’s latest product offering – CloudSpend.

Rotorcraft Asia 2019 and Unmanned Systems Asia 2019 held in conjunction with the 7th World Civil Aviation Chief Executives Forum debut the latest electric Vertical Take-off and Landing (eVTOL) technologies to show how the twin worlds of rotorcraft and unmanned technologies are coming together to revolutionise the way we work and travel. We get the low down from Asian Sky Group Chairman Max Buirski on APACs Rotary Market, an introduction by Volocopter’s CEO Christian Bauer on the debut of their eVOTL urban aircraft and the latest in Drone technology from Periculum Labs Board Advisor Markus Scherer on the plethora of business opportunities Drone Technology brings to market.

Deemples helps Golf get relevant among millennials as the app-based start-up makes the game more accessible between golfers and golf courses across Southeast Asia.

Asia is dominating Intellectual Property Rights markets taking up a whopping 65% of the total patents filed globally. This was a jump of 15% over 2007 levels, with China contributing to over two-thirds of the same. The estimated number of patents reached almost 14 million, a massive increase over 8.5 million in 2008.

India’s General Election heats up as Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s pledge to create 20 million jobs annually while he was a prime ministerial candidate five years ago is facing criticism over the Government’s perceived failure to live up to a cornerstone election promise. The Government says it’s a made-up crisis based on a lack of credible employment data.

The current draft ecommerce policy which seeks to provide a regulatory framework in India is generating a lot of heat. We discuss the positive and negative implications for domestic and foreign-owned companies in India.

For a nation that is notoriously expensive to drive and own cars, the Singaporean car market is set for a revolution with Carro, South East Asia’s largest automotive marketplace launch of a monthly-flat fee product that includes car ownership, insurance, maintenance, 24-hour assistance and road tax.