Singapore’s domestic AI market is worth roughly US$1.32 billion — a rounding error next to China or Japan. Yet in the four months to July 2026, Microsoft pledged US$5.5 billion … Read more
Yes — every frontier model works natively in Singapore. But the real story is SEA-LION, the Singapore-built model family powering Southeast Asian AI.
Singapore is Southeast Asia’s smallest gaming market but its regional HQ hub – home to Garena and the global publishers’ SEA operations.
PropertyGuru went private at $1.1B; China’s Beike is a $20B+ giant. How property tech is digitising Asia’s largest asset class in 2026.
Asia is the world’s fastest-growing travel market, led by Trip.com’s $8.9B and a wave of IPOs from Klook to OYO. The state of Asian travel tech in 2026.
Capital, fintech, AI infrastructure, crypto, family offices and regional headquarters make UAE–Singapore a powerful small-state technology relationship. Singapore has about 6 million people and the UAE about 11 million, both … Read more
Singapore remains the operating layer for US technology, capital and regulation across Southeast Asia. US–Singapore bilateral trade hit S$145.7 billion (around US$112.6 billion) in 2024, with the US running a … Read more
A working tracker of who owns ecommerce GMV across fifteen Asian markets. Shopee, Coupang, Rakuten, Taobao, Flipkart — every leader is Asian-headquartered.
A working tracker of who owns mobile payments across fifteen Asian markets. Alipay and WeChat Pay in China, UPI in India, GCash in the Philippines, and a region-specific stack everywhere else.
How Asian gamers actually spend their time and money — by market. Mobile MOBAs in SEA, mobile gacha in Japan, premium PC and console in Korea, and a regulated mainland Chinese market that still sets the pace globally.
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