Crunchbase’s numbers for the first half of 2026 are the kind that are supposed to make an entire industry feel good. Global venture funding hit US$510 billion, beating the whole of 2025 in six months and smashing the previous half-year record of US$375 billion set in the second half of 2021. Startup capital, by the […] The post When 43 per cent of the world’s funding goes to two firms, where does that leave SEA? appeared first on e27.

On September 18, 2026, global markets rose together. Asian stocks and bonds gained as oil extended its decline. European equities climbed. The STOXX 600 rose 0.9 per cent to 642.6 points. Mining and automotive sectors led those gains. The FTSE index gained 1.2 per cent. That marked its best one-day performance in over two months. […] The post Did the Fed just accidentally kick off the next crypto bull run? Or just a dead cat bounce? appeared first on e27.

Gain City says the iPhone 18 Pro Max accounted for 78 percent of its iPhone sales since doors opened, with queues forming from 5.30am and Burgundy the colour of choice.

Waymo is preparing to bring its driverless ride-hailing service to Singapore in 2028, marking one of the most closely watched tests yet of whether fully autonomous mobility can work in a dense, highly regulated Southeast Asian city. The Alphabet-owned autonomous vehicle company said it is working with Singapore’s Ministry of Transport and Land Transport Authority […] The post Waymo’s Singapore entry raises the stakes for autonomous mobility in Asia appeared first on e27.

SIMBA is making Huawei central to its latest 10Gbps broadband offer, with Wi-Fi 7 built into the ONR (optical network router - which combines the function of a terminal and router) and two OptiXstar mesh nodes extending coverage around the home.

Part of my work as an international market expansion specialist, supporting government and companies in the process of promoting and attracting opportunities, is reading a market’s readiness not just through headlines, but through the infrastructure underneath: banking systems, regulatory friction, and the everyday experience of the people actually trying to operate there. That’s what pulled […] The post What Maybank’s US$10B bet reveals about market readiness: A view from two emerging ecosystems appeared first on e27.

Apple’s new Pro iPhones arrive in Singapore on 18 September, while the foldable iPhone Duo follows in October with prices starting at S$3,099.

The first generation of ASEAN’s unicorn founders is moving on. Some have stepped back from operational roles. Some have moved into investing. A few have taken government appointments and, more recently, moved back out of them. The question I keep coming back to, fifteen years into a risk career that has run alongside this generation’s […] The post The founder-to-minister pivot isn’t the problem, ASEAN’s missing governance infrastructure is appeared first on e27.

As technological developments augur an era of renewed space exploration, China is aiming to become a major player. In the second part of this two-part series, Wency Chen and Ben Jiang examine the country’s strategy and progress on reusable rockets – a field where the US has a tremendous lead. US commercial space firm SpaceX has been eager to tout its deployment of reusable first-stage rocket boosters, claiming to have flown more than 600 missions with the cost-cutting launch components. Despite...

MANILA, Philippines—eGilas Pilipinas head coach Nite Alparas has done a great deal in giving back to the Filipino esports community by steering the Philippines to glory in the eFIBA scene. Alparas, though, is more than meets the eye. Aside from his triumph in the esports stage, he also has a life outside of the virtual

Acer Philippines is preparing for another push into gaming with the upcoming Predator League, while also looking to bring some of the company’s newest products unveiled at IFA 2026 to local consumers. Speaking during the Acer Music Run, an event that drew more than 4,000 runners across its 5K and 10K categories,  Mart Maranon, Marketing

Huawei Technologies on Thursday unveiled a new computing architecture that it says could make as many as 1 million processors work as a single computer, putting its UnifiedBus interconnect technology at the centre of an ambitious effort to rethink how large data centres are built. The Peerium Computing Architecture combines nested parallelism, unified memory addressing and peer-to-peer interconnect, with UnifiedBus serving as the high-speed fabric connecting processors, memory, storage and...

Huawei Technologies on Thursday unveiled a new computing architecture that it says could make as many as 1 million processors work as a single computer, putting its UnifiedBus interconnect technology at the centre of an ambitious effort to rethink how large data centres are built. The Peerium Computing Architecture combines nested parallelism, unified memory addressing and peer-to-peer interconnect, with UnifiedBus serving as the high-speed fabric connecting processors, memory, storage and...

The Galaxy S26 series will receive the update first, bringing new Galaxy AI tools alongside other quality-of-life improvements.

The DITO Gaming Modem is a peculiar device. Behind the Team Liquid partnership and branding, the device is essentially a 5G wireless modem with one RJ45 LAN port. Because it runs on a 5G DITO SIM card, it’s portable and plug and play. It also goes without saying that this device works best in areas

A customer in Jakarta spends 20 minutes explaining a billing dispute to a chatbot, gets bounced to a human agent, and has to start the story over from scratch. Multiply that across the millions of AI-mediated conversations happening daily across the region, and you get a sense of the trust deficit quietly building beneath Asia […] The post “AI amnesia” is quietly costing Southeast Asian brands their customers appeared first on e27.

China’s leading memory chipmaker ChangXin Memory Technologies (CXMT) is gaining ground among local smartphone vendors, with some of its high-end chips finding their way into flagship Chinese handsets as vendors push into the premium market. ZTE-backed Nubia’s NaviX Ultra that went on sale on Wednesday used LPDDR5X DRAM chips from CXMT, the companies announced earlier this month. The handset was dubbed the Nubia Doubao phone due to its integration of TikTok parent ByteDance’s Doubao artificial...

China’s leading memory chipmaker ChangXin Memory Technologies (CXMT) is gaining ground among local smartphone vendors, with some of its high-end chips finding their way into flagship Chinese handsets as vendors push into the premium market. ZTE-backed Nubia’s NaviX Ultra that went on sale on Wednesday used LPDDR5X DRAM chips from CXMT, the companies announced earlier this month. The handset was dubbed the Nubia Doubao phone due to its integration of TikTok parent ByteDance’s Doubao artificial...

Hang Ten Systems has raised an additional US$53 million in seed funding, just five weeks after closing its first seed round, as large enterprises search for ways to move artificial intelligence from experimentation into core operations. The new round was led by Xora, a Temasek-backed fund focused on AI and deep tech. Mayfield, which led […] The post Temasek-backed Xora leads Hang Ten’s US$53M seed round appeared first on e27.

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Huawei Technologies said on Thursday that it would launch its next-generation artificial intelligence chip in the first quarter of 2027, moving the target launch forward by nine months as the firm aggressively expands its ecosystem amid China’s self-sufficiency push. David Wang Tao, rotating and acting chairman for Huawei, said on Thursday that the Ascend 960DT chip, an AI chip designed for model training, “with performance doubling”, would be “ready in the first quarter of 2027”, three quarters...

Huawei Technologies said on Thursday that it would launch its next-generation artificial intelligence chip in the first quarter of 2027, moving the target launch forward by nine months as the firm aggressively expands its ecosystem amid China’s self-sufficiency push. David Wang Tao, rotating and acting chairman for Huawei, said on Thursday that the Ascend 960DT chip, an AI chip designed for model training, “with performance doubling”, would be “ready in the first quarter of 2027”, three quarters...

Singtel’s AI Pass gives eligible learners access to six premium AI tools for up to six months, as Singapore expands its national push to build practical AI skills.

Databricks is putting more weight behind Singapore as large companies across Asia shift from experimenting with artificial intelligence to trying to run it safely inside their core operations. The US data and AI company said it will invest more than US$350 million in Singapore over the next three years, expand into a new 32,000-square-foot regional […] The post Databricks doubles down on Singapore with US$350M AI investment plan appeared first on e27.

The wide-ranging launch also covers air purifiers, floor cleaners and hair-care devices, alongside the camera-equipped CameraJet toothbrush.

Here’s a simple way to think about FinSight Ventures: it is a late-stage fund that likes the places most investors avoid, and it has a one-line rule for deciding when to write a cheque: 35 per cent a year, in dollars, or it walks. The US-based VC fund with operational hubs in Cyprus and India […] The post Why FinSight thinks Physical AI is mispriced by a decade of data, not dollars appeared first on e27.

Picture the scene. The lights dim. A drone shot. A cello. Employees smiling at the camera. Then the line: We are changing the world. The film was beautifully made. The investor picked up his phone ten seconds in. I didn’t set out to start a company over that. But a founder I was coaching kept […] The post Nobody gives you time to explain. That’s the real fundraising problem appeared first on e27.

Bitcoin rose 0.82 per cent in 24 hours to US$76,318.25. Ethereum gained 0.80 per cent to US$2,418.94. The total crypto market cap increased one per cent, and the broader crypto market rose 0.99 per cent. These numbers point to a single conclusion. A relief bounce tied to the Federal Reserve lifted the entire asset class. […] The post Why did Bitcoin and Ethereum move in near-perfect lockstep after the Fed rate hike? appeared first on e27.

When we run citation checks for clients at ESBO Ltd, my agency, the sources assistants quote for buying questions are rarely brand websites or big media. They are creators: a YouTube comparison from someone who tested four products on camera, or a forum thread with real numbers in it. The people being quoted are, almost […] The post Paid to be quoted: The creator revenue line Southeast Asia hasn’t priced yet appeared first on e27.

Last month, I sat across from Kenny, a software engineer in his early thirties, based in Singapore, someone who reads financial news, has a brokerage account, and thinks carefully about his money. I asked him about his portfolio. He listed: Apple, Microsoft, Google, Nvidia, and Amazon. I asked about Singapore stocks. He paused. “I don’t […] The post Why Singapore investors hold more Apple than Singtel, and why it should worry you appeared first on e27.