Singapore’s technology news in August of 2024 touched on developments, technologies and implementations across a range of industries, including: laser-based wireless tech for live music; programmable government disbursements, built on Singapore’s ‘digital dollar’ project; Singaporean AI-driven fraud-detection technology; and more. Hit the links below to read each Singapore tech news item in full.
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SWITCH: Singapore Week of Innovation & Technology – October 2024
- Singapore: Protégé Ventures, SEA’s first student-led VC fund, invests Sg$25K pre-A in Equatorial Space Systems rocket propulsion & space launch firm / full item
- Singapore: National Uni and Agency for Science, Tech & Research unveil wearable sensor for continuous, non-invasive health monitoring, using hydrogel-based device / full item
- Singapore: The 15 Singaporean startups selected for the Forbes Asia 100 to Watch list, working in fintech, space technology, warehouse robotics and more / full item
- Singapore’s Transcelestial deployed its proprietary laser-based wireless tech at Coachella and Stagecoach music festivals, delivering 5G services to T-Mobile users / full item
- Singapore’s Equatorial Space rocket firm secured $1.5M pre-A led by Singapore’s Farquhar VC, with Australia’s Paspalis participating / full item
Cushman & Wakefield: Asia Pacific Data Center Market H1 2024
- Singapore: TOKEN2049 crypto conference Asia edition is set for September 18-19, looking at all things crypto, blockchain and digital assets / full item
- Singapore’s DBS Bank and partner, China’s Ant International, roll out blockchain-based instant and multicurrency treasury and liquidity management solution, DBS Treasury Tokens / full item
- DBS pilots programmable grant disbursements with partners to improve governance and efficiency of government payouts, building on Project Orchid digital Singapore dollar work / full item
- Download: ‘Singapore Venture Funding Landscape 2023’, a full-year report from DealStreetAsia, Nikkei Group and EnterpriseSG (pdf link) / full item
The Dawn of the AI Era:: Generative AI, teens, parents, home and schools
- Mark your calendar: SWITCH 2024 – Singapore Week of Innovation & Technology – is set for October / full item
- The Financial Times’ Crypto & Digital Assets Summit Asia is set for December 5th, running online and in-person in Singapore / full item
- Web In Travel Singapore 2024 Conference is set for October, looking at all things travel, from tech to demographics / full item
- An intro to Singapore’s TransparentlyAI, using artificial intelligence to identify manipulation and fraud in accounting / full item
- Singapore-based Antler VC closes 2nd Southeast Asia fund, raising $72M to focus on startups in Singapore, Indonesia, Vietnam and Malaysia / full item
- Singapore: An introduction to, and outline of, the National Quantum-Safe Network, looking to deploy, trial and evaluate this critical technology / full item
- Singapore’s Singtel launches National Quantum-Safe Network Plus, NQSN+, to equip enterprises with the ability to future-proof critical networks / full item
ChatWTO: An Analysis of Generative AI and International Trade
- Cyber Security Agency of Singapore has released the Singapore Cyber Landscape 2023, an overview of key developments in the year past / full item
- Singapore’s Beep raises $3.3M to expand Voltality, integrated charge stations, payment services and vehicles stack, in Thailand and Malaysia / full item
- Vietnam’s VinCSS cybersecurity firm inks MOU with Singapore’s ST Engineering Info-Security to boost cybersec solutions in aerospace / full item
- Australia to export energy to Singapore with Au$30BN solar & battery Sun Cable project, based in remote north and featuring solar arrays, batteries and 4300km subsea cable / full item
- Australia’s Sun Cable project, potentially to become the world’s biggest renewable energy project, mulls technology options as it works towards final commitment on $35BN project / full item
- ‘HP has set an internal goal of making up to 70% of its notebooks outside China, and is looking at Singapore and Thailand as potential production destinations’ / full item
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Asia Tech newsletters:
August 2024
- August 28th: Digital banking in Thailand, quantum computing in India, crypto mining & electricity in Laos…
- August 21st: Flying cars in China, Taiwan partners Microsoft for AI, Australia’s sustainable lithium extraction…
- August 14th: Indonesia and EV batteries, HP backs away from China, Vietnam’s EV charging subsidies…
- August 7th: Vietnam’s digital business goals, crypto trading in Hong Kong, Australia’s space launch opportunities…
