Meta’s Dhruv Vohra to lead Philippines, SEA business
Meta, the parent company of Facebook announced today that executive Dhruv Vohra will be leading the South East Asia business, which includes The Philippines, Vietnam, Singapore, Malaysia, Thailand, and Indonesia. The release writes: Today we’re announcing that Dhruv Vohra is stepping into the role of Managing Director, Global Business Group, Southeast Asia. Dhruv will lead
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Michael Padilla: The costliest failure is refusing to stop when strategy no longer holds
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 appoints Dhruv Vohra to lead Southeast Asia business as AI and chat commerce reshape online retail
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 steps up Tau chip roll-out, with Mate XT 2 on track for 1 million sales
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 steps up Tau chip roll-out, with Mate XT 2 on track for 1 million sales
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...
PSA, Granite Asia launch US$50M fund to scale supply-chain innovation
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.
Why a good product isn’t enough for sustainable growth
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.
Audi’s fire-breathing 630hp RS5 is now available in Singapore
The new RS5 is the first Audi RS car to feature a hybrid powertrain.
What building Bangladesh’s agency actually looks like from the inside – Part 2
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.
The AI agent boom is exposing Southeast Asia’s startup codebase problem
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.
Why con artists get the meeting that honest founders can’t
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.
Could Apple be unveiling its rumoured smart home hub in October?
Word on the street is that Apple could announce its new smart home hub on 13 October.
The smartphone is becoming the agent
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
