Apple leads China smartphone sales after launch of iPhone 18 Pro. Can the momentum last?

Consumer brands across Southeast Asia and global e-commerce hubs face an unforgiving mathematical reality in their paid media accounts. Customer acquisition costs across Meta, TikTok, and Google climbed between 60 and 80 per cent over the past 18 months, while the conversion efficiency of traditional influencer sponsorships collapsed. For years, marketing teams wired guaranteed upfront […] The post Why social commerce seeding is replacing upfront influencer retainers appeared first on e27.

CPF Ordinary Account pays 2.5 per cent, and Singaporeans queue for Treasury bills when yields rise. So when anyone quotes a 20 per cent annual percentage yield on stablecoins, a sensible person should ask one question first: who is paying it, and why? I ask because I once paid for not asking. In 2022, I […] The post A 20% stablecoin APY may be less magical than it sounds appeared first on e27.

A new beauty brand no longer needs to look much like a traditional beauty company. It does not need its own factory, a large product-development department or a nationwide retail network. Specialist manufacturers can formulate, produce and package cosmetics for outside brands, while e-commerce provides access to customers without building physical distribution from scratch. AI […] The post Why AI could unbundle the beauty industry appeared first on e27.

A founder pitched me earlier this year on his semiconductor company. The deck was clean. The market was real. The technology was genuinely differentiated. The Singapore entity was properly incorporated, the cap table looked orderly, and the revenue was growing. Then I asked him three questions. Where does your intellectual property legally sit? Who owns […] The post The cross-border due diligence questions most founders cannot answer appeared first on e27.

John Ternus is reportedly restructuring Apple into a leaner, more engineering-focused company while pushing for a faster product and innovation cycle.

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Need fast wireless charging at a desk or on the go for your brand-new iPhone 18 Pro and Pro Max? Ugreen just launched three charging solutions for that.

Nvidia founder and CEO Jensen Huang and AMD chief Lisa Su have joined an influential advisory board at a prestigious Chinese university, placing the two US artificial intelligence chip leaders in a high-level forum known for connecting global executives with senior Chinese officials. Huang and Su were among three new members appointed to the advisory board of Tsinghua University’s School of Economics and Management (SEM), alongside Marc Pictet, senior managing partner of Swiss wealth and assets...

Nvidia founder and CEO Jensen Huang and AMD chief Lisa Su have joined an influential advisory board at a prestigious Chinese university, placing the two key American AI tech leaders in a high-level forum known for connecting global executives with senior Chinese officials. Huang and Su were among three new members appointed to the advisory board of Tsinghua University’s School of Economics and Management (SEM), alongside Marc Pictet, senior managing partner of Swiss wealth and assets manager...

China’s generative artificial intelligence user base surpassed 700 million at the end of June, accounting for more than half of the population as wide AI adoption pushes the technology’s penetration rate to a record high in the country. The user base data, released Tuesday by the China Internet Network Information Centre, represents an increase of 16 per cent from the end of 2025, when China had 602 million generative AI users with a penetration rate of 42.8 per cent. Question-and-answer...

Hong Kong businesses are lagging behind their mainland Chinese peers in adopting artificial intelligence, as entrenched legacy systems and a risk-averse corporate mindset slow the city’s digital transition, according to a senior executive at consultancy Accenture. Only 10 per cent of Hong Kong firms surveyed by Accenture had integrated generative AI across multiple business functions, compared with about 21 per cent of mainland enterprises, said Robert Hah, Hong Kong office lead at Accenture...

Sibol’s Pokémon UNITE campaign at the 20th Asian Games Aichi-Nagoya 2026 ended with a bronze medal after Indonesia stopped the Philippines in the semifinals at Aichi Sky Expo on Sunday. The Philippines fell 2-0 to Indonesia in the semifinal, ending its bid for a place in the gold-medal match. Despite the loss, the result gave