It appears to be trying times for the Indian Telco sector. With a debt over USD 98 billion, the industry is looking at muted growth in 2019.

Chinese investment in Africa are shaping a new economic and political order in the continent. With funding by China pouring into all sectors and many countries within Africa, we take a snapshot of some of the major infrastructure developments that are underway.

The increasing demand by investors for environmentally-friendly investments is driving aggressive growth in green financing world-wide. Banking giant DBS claims that future projects in ASEAN alone will require up to USD 3 trillion in green investment till 2030.

The global grocery market is on a new high catapulted by the cart power of the Asian grocery market. Despite some stagnated growth in North America and Western Europe, total global grocery sales are set to reach US 10 trillion by 2023, with nearly half of additional sales originating in Asia.

Africa’s second most populous country, which was ranked the third-poorest in the world in 2000, has seen a meteoric rise through state spending on roads, giant dams and industrial parks. Ethiopia’s services sector has also contributed significantly towards rapid growth. With an annual GDP per capita of USD 80 billion, it is miraculous that Ethiopia has seen poverty rates fall to 31% in less than a decade, making it among the top three fastest growing economies of the world.

According to a recent survey by Dell Technologies, India leads the global average of learning on the job using digital technologies. If the current trend continues, India is on track to be the third largest economy in the world by 2030.

Asian economies continue their stride towards a congenial business environment with Malaysia and India witnessing the biggest surge among all, jumping by nine places to 15th and surging by 23 places to 77th globally in the 2019 Annual Rankings Ease of Business Report released by the World Bank.

Cold coffee is turning out to be the beverage du jour, with a number of acquisitions and mergers taking place globally last year. Thanks to increasing demand by millennials, this popular beverage is expected to see M&A deals valued over USD 1 billion in 2019.

Ericsson releases its 10 Hot Consumer Trends report 2019 this week, highlighting hardcore early adopters’ perceptions of new technologies. What has emerged are some interesting philosophical and practical considerations, most interestingly, the notion of mental obesity; with 34% of respondents expecting critical thinking to disappear due to the overuse of virtual assistants.

Singapore-based Smarter Me and Los Angeles-based Founders Bootcamp held the Finals of the Young Founders Summit @ South East Asia, the world’s first high school accelerator, at Stamford American International School, with the winning startup Cure Band wowing the crowd with a wearable heart health sensor device.

With the digital revolution making entry into traditional and non-traditional markets more accessible than ever for SMBs to compete against more established, larger brands, we reached out to Singapore-based Author of Mother Industrialist Kenneth Choo and CEO of Enfoundery Siddika Jaffer on helping mumpreneurs turn their passion and purpose into profit.

Despite China’s Central Bank’s efforts to stabilize its currency, China has witnessed a significant dent in the Yuan in the wake of the rising demand of the US dollar, which has appreciated by almost 11% against the Chinese Yuan; and China is not the only among Asian economies that is feeling the fall…

SMBs and SMEs can now provide affordable regular upskilling tools to employees now that Coaching Apps are available on any device, any time – and the results are significant.

Deskera, a Singapore-based venture-backed cloud-based start-up just announced a successful fund-raising round of USD 60 million with heavy-hitters such as Cisco Investments and Susquehanna International Group throwing their names into the ring.

Clickbait is old news as Chat Advertising surpasses even the most popular video ads – which currently make up more than half of digital ad campaign spends. Bot-based ads are closing sales faster than you can say Suri, making it the number one preference of digital marketing agencies.