RUBE GOLDBERG

Geo Energy Resources launches a consent solicitation and tender offer for its bonds. GEO Energy Resources Chief Executive Officer Tung Kum Hon says the weakening global outlook and demand for coal has increased its need for additional flexibility in light of current market conditions.

Ride-Hailing Operator TADA, announces strategic investment from South Korea’s Shinhan Bank in Series A Extension Round.

SGX will host Commodities Unplugged from 18 May – 12 June 2020, a month-long webinar series for international participants to share insights into a post-pandemic view of commodity markets, and the macro opportunities offered from an increasingly financialised market.

Zoho ramps up its global assistance efforts with a new Vertical Relief Plan; targeted programs that will be introduced to aid organizations across Education, NFPs, Government and Retail sectors.

ManageEngine Product Consultant Monisha Ravi discusses how SMBs with tighter budgets and smaller teams, can keep up with the challenging and ever-changing IT landscape.

Alteryx CEO Dean Stoecker says COVID-19 underscores the importance of something he has believed in for a long time – data analytics technology complements and enhances human capabilities, whereby anyone can be a data worker.

Singapore-based biotech startup RWDC Industries Limited announces the closing of a USD 133 million two-stage Series B funding round this month. Using nature to battle the world’s single-use plastics problem, RWDC says the funds will accelerate plans to meet increasing demand by industries for alternate packaging plastics.

Salesforce launches Work.com Command Center – a single hub for leaders to get a 360-degree view of return-to-work readiness across places, peoples and projects.

According to Alipay, with the movement of people restricted across the globe, and with the fight against COVID-19 expected to be prolonged into the foreseeable future, we take a look at contactless payments usage across SE Asia lockdowns.

There were plenty of bold predictions and optimism from aviation leaders at an industry-first virtual broadcast event hosted by Inmarsat Aviation and APEX at Flightplan, Singapore.

Helicap, a FinTech-driven firm specializing in alternative lending in APAC raises USD 10 million in its Series A equity round and redeemable preference share funding.

Google and UOB expands their SME Leadership Academy capacity ten-fold and revise the curriculum to help SMEs hard hit by COVID-19.

Rolls-Royce has invited a group of leading companies to collaborate on Emer2gent, a new alliance of data analytics experts challenged with finding ways of supporting businesses and governments globally as they recover from the economic impacts of COVID-19.

Primech Partners with ServisHero launches On-Demand disinfection service, Disinfection2U, promising deployment within two hours of request.

NTUC Learning Hub partners with online learning provider G01 to launch over 100 free courses during Singapore’s Circuit Breaker period.