Chinese and US firms are “neck-and-neck” in the quality battle for the next generation of drone patents, despite China having a lead in volume, a study published on Thursday shows. Chinese companies accounted for 44 per cent of the world’s drone patent filings in 2024, against 17 per cent for American firms, according to a report published by LexisNexis. Measured by value, however, US drone patents were on a par with China’s, leaving the two countries roughly even in total global patent asset...

It’s the start of October, which means that the iPhone 18 pilgrimage has begun. Here are some preorder events happening in official stores near you. Power Mac Center Premier Apple partner Power Mac Center (PMC) opens pre-orders for the newest iPhone 18 Pro series, with an exclusive event happening at Greenbelt 3 and SM Mall

The new Urban Cruiser is smaller, not just in size, but also in price.

Singapore’s position as one of Asia’s most advanced digital economies is built on a simple promise: global companies can move data, capital and operations through the city-state with confidence. A new study suggests that promise is becoming harder to keep. Research released by data storage and management company Everpure found that 89 per cent of […] The post Why Singapore firms fear data sovereignty failures but remain underprepared appeared first on e27.

The question on every trader’s mind as October begins is whether Bitcoin will deliver its legendary Uptober performance or succumb to the economic pressures that have defined much of this year. The answer, based on the data, is neither a triumphant rally nor a catastrophic collapse. It is something more nuanced and arguably more challenging: […] The post Uptober or downtober: Will Bitcoin’s 19% seasonal average survive US$100 oil? appeared first on e27.

In healthcare, booking an appointment is rarely as simple as finding an empty slot on a calendar. A patient may need a specific doctor, a particular procedure, a referral, a follow-up window, or a clinic that accepts certain rules around timing and availability. Much of this still sits in phone calls, WhatsApp threads and front-desk […] The post Zeya Health acquires ConnectLah to build AI booking rails for clinics appeared first on e27.

In a world where former military officers often trade uniforms for predictable government consultancies, Michael J. Padilla chose a different path. After more than 31 years in the US Army, rising to the rank of colonel, he founded Al Thuraya Holdings, a global group that today spans 18 companies across risk management, security, technology, consulting, […] The post Michael Padilla: The costliest failure is refusing to stop when strategy no longer holds appeared first on e27.

Meta has appointed Dhruv Vohra as Managing Director of its Global Business Group in Southeast Asia, putting a longtime regional executive in charge of one of the company’s most commercially important and behaviourally complex markets. Based in the region, Vohra will oversee Meta’s commercial strategy across Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, Singapore, Thailand and Vietnam. He […] The post Meta appoints Dhruv Vohra to lead Southeast Asia business as AI and chat commerce reshape online retail appeared first on e27.

Huawei Technologies is making rapid progress in rolling out a new breed of advanced chip based on its self-developed Tau Scaling Law, with the Chinese company set to adopt the processors across the newly released Mate 90 smartphone series. The roll-out marks another step forward in the Chinese tech giant’s push to overcome stringent US export curbs, which has seen Huawei rewire its smartphone business to run on home-grown technology. Speaking at a press briefing on Tuesday, Huawei consumer...

Huawei Technologies is making rapid progress in rolling out a new breed of advanced chip based on its self-developed Tau Scaling Law, with the Chinese company set to adopt the processors across the newly released Mate 90 smartphone series. The roll-out marks another step forward in the Chinese tech giant’s push to overcome stringent US export curbs, which has seen Huawei rewire its smartphone business to run on home-grown technology. Speaking at a press briefing on Tuesday, Huawei consumer...

In global logistics, the problem is rarely a shortage of new technology. Ports, shipping lines, freight forwarders and warehouse operators are constantly pitched tools promising to predict delays, automate yards, optimise routes or cut emissions. The harder question is whether those tools can work inside real trade networks, where a single container journey may involve […] The post PSA, Granite Asia launch US$50M fund to scale supply-chain innovation appeared first on e27.

A good product can open the door to a market, but it does not guarantee business success. Many companies reach a point where their product or service has potential, customers are showing interest, and the team is working hard, but growth remains slower than expected. The challenge is often not the product itself. It is […] The post Why a good product isn’t enough for sustainable growth appeared first on e27.

The new RS5 is the first Audi RS car to feature a hybrid powertrain.

In part one, I traced the early years of building Ngital, the frustration with an industry built on vanity metrics, the scramble to land the first clients, and the realisation that reshaped how the agency approached its work. Part two picks up from there: what trust actually looks like once that work is underway, the […] The post What building Bangladesh’s agency actually looks like from the inside – Part 2 appeared first on e27.

Across Southeast Asia’s technology hubs, the AI conversation has moved quickly from “Can it help developers write code faster?” to a harder question: “Can it be trusted to work on the codebase by itself?” That shift matters. The first wave of generative AI in software engineering was largely about assistance: autocomplete tools, chat-based coding helpers, […] The post The AI agent boom is exposing Southeast Asia’s startup codebase problem appeared first on e27.

In July 2011, a 27-year-old Stanford dropout secured a 10-minute slot with George Shultz at the Hoover Institution. The meeting ran two and a half hours. Before the month was out, the former secretary of state had joined the Theranos board, won over, he told Fortune, by her “purity of motivation.” Nothing said in that […] The post Why con artists get the meeting that honest founders can’t appeared first on e27.

Word on the street is that Apple could announce its new smart home hub on 13 October.

Your smartphone already knows where you are, what time your next meeting starts, and which apps you use. Alibaba now wants it to do something with all that information. The company is betting on that idea with Qwen Intelligence, a platform designed to help smartphone makers build AI agents directly into their devices. Instead of

The US artificial intelligence giant Anthropic has warned of the potential danger posed by Chinese firm Z.ai’s GLM-5.3, with the open-weight model showing a troubling mix of powerful hacking abilities but weak safety constraints. GLM-5.3 almost matches Anthropic’s most advanced model in terms of its cyber capabilities, but has far weaker safeguards, meaning there is greater potential for the model to be co-opted by bad actors, according to the San Francisco-based firm. In a report released on...

The US artificial intelligence giant Anthropic has warned of the potential danger posed by Chinese firm Z.ai’s GLM-5.3, with the open-weight model showing a troubling mix of powerful hacking abilities but weak safety constraints. GLM-5.3 almost matches Anthropic’s most advanced model in terms of its cyber capabilities, but has far weaker safeguards, meaning there is greater potential for the model to be co-opted by bad actors, according to the San Francisco-based firm. In a report released on...

You can literally charge your other portable devices with this phone.

Subscribers: The Daily Pulse won’t be published on October 1, which is China’s National Day. We will resume publication on Friday, October 2. US President Donald Trump has again ruled out collaborating with China on artificial intelligence (AI), arguing that it would undermine American leadership in the technology. Cooperation would let China “immediately gain access to things that we know that they don’t know”, Trump told reporters on Tuesday. “We’re leading now over China and everyone else,...

Apple has claimed the top spot in China’s smartphone market following the release of its iPhone 18 Pro series, giving a potential boost to a sluggish handset market weighed down by weak consumer demand and soaring component costs. Sales of the new Pro models in their first three days after launching on September 18 were 12 per cent higher than sales of the iPhone 17 Pro line-up during its entire first week last year, according to a report published on Wednesday by Counterpoint Research. That...

Apple has claimed the top spot in China’s smartphone market following the release of its iPhone 18 Pro series, giving a potential boost to a sluggish handset market weighed down by weak consumer demand and soaring component costs. Sales of the new Pro models in their first three days after launching on September 18 were 12 per cent higher than sales of the iPhone 17 Pro line-up during its entire first week last year, according to a report published on Wednesday by Counterpoint Research. That...

Funds raised through Hong Kong initial public offerings (IPOs) doubled in the first nine months of 2026, reaching the highest level for the period since records began in 1980. A total of 112 companies raised US$48.4 billion on Hong Kong’s main board during the first nine months, according to data released by LSEG Data & Analytics on Wednesday. A further two companies listed on the city’s Growth Enterprise Market (GEM). By deal count, the combined total of 114 new listings on the main board and...

Leopard prints, hot pink and sticker-covered cases bring early-2000s visuals to iPhones and other accessories.

Isn’t it amusing that a game that’s more than 11 years old is still used as a showcase of graphic hardware?

Mainland China-based printed circuit board (PCB) maker Suzhou Dongshan Precision Manufacturing has cleared its final listing hurdle in Hong Kong and is moving towards a share sale that may rank among the city’s largest initial public offerings (IPOs) in the fourth quarter, according to people familiar with the matter. The company passed its listing hearing with bourse operator Hong Kong Exchanges and Clearing (HKEX) recently, the people said, requesting anonymity because the information was...

Chinese artificial intelligence start-up DeepSeek on Wednesday open-sourced a suite of core tools tailored for Huawei Technologies’ Ascend AI chips, marking a step forward in the country’s push to end dependence on processors from US giant Nvidia amid US export curbs. Hangzhou-based DeepSeek released six software modules that mirror its prior open-source tools for Nvidia’s AI chips, aiming to build a new “independent and controllable” software ecosystem for graphics processing units (GPUs),...

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