Asia

India migrates 25,000 small lenders to ERP in just five months

ASIA IN BRIEF Plus: Food poisoning hits ByteDance Singapore; Indonesia bans DuckDuckGo; and more

Public Sector05 Aug 2024 | 3

South Korea creates $445M bailout fund after payment glitch trips up e-commerce giant

Founder forbidden to leave the country, promises to make things right for out-of-pocket vendors

Software30 Jul 2024 | 9

China warns citizens to stop posting info about spy satellites on social media

Asia In Brief Plus: Singapore launches global regulatory blockchain; China gets new SciTech boss; India spectrum auction fizzles

Public Sector01 Jul 2024 | 10

Microsoft boss charms Indonesia with $1.7B AI, cloud injection

Promises to train 850,000 workers and build datacenters

AI + ML30 Apr 2024 | 5

Wipro appoints new CEO: 32-year veteran and current US boss Srini Pallia takes over

ASIA IN BRIEF Plus: YouTube's fake India election ad policy; Singtel not selling Optus; Do Chinese tech stalk former workers?

Channel07 Apr 2024 | 1

Singtel loses $260 million tax case in Australia

Asia in brief PLUS: Chinese tops Steam’s language charts; HPE opens Saudi server factory; Indian government apps have flaws

Public Sector10 Mar 2024 | 2

Grab shrank its superapp by a quarter in order to survive

Large APKs and disk footprints spell doom in a developing market

Software05 Mar 2024 | 12

Vietnam may ban virtual assets to fix its bad rep for money laundering

Hopes to get itself off an international naughty list – as you would when you want foreign investment in your chip sector

Public Sector01 Mar 2024 | 8

India buys a third of the world's wearable devices

Asia In Brief PLUS: Australian Parliament calls for Assange release; Japan's H3 rocket soars; LINE leak worsens

Personal Tech18 Feb 2024 | 2

Crime gang targeted jobseekers across Asia, looted two million email addresses

That listing for a gig that looked too good to be true may have been carrying SQL injection code

Cyber-crime09 Feb 2024 | 1

Microsoft signals expansion of APAC datacenter fleet with 'land acquisition' hire

Hiring for regional and global execs to help it find new spots for bit barns, and make sure they get built right

Off-Prem30 Jan 2024 | 4

China’s gambling crackdown spawned wave of illegal online casinos and crypto-crime in Asia

‘Inaccessible and autonomous armed group territories’ host crooks who use tech to launder cash, run slave scam gangs, and more

Cyber-crime16 Jan 2024 | 5

'Technical glitch' in payroll software sparks riots in Papua New Guinea

Asia in Brief PLUS: Microsoft taps 700 million new customers in China; AI comes to Korean DMZ; India’s semiconductor sector surges

Software14 Jan 2024 | 13

Google to lay Asia-Pacific to South America undersea cable

Humboldt cable to zoom from Chile to Australia through the South Pacific

Networks12 Jan 2024 | 10

India to launch with SpaceX's Falcon 9 for the first time

ASIA IN BRIEF Also: Huawei in patent deal with Nokia, and China slates 2025 as year for mass produced flying cars

Science09 Jan 2024 | 3

DotAsia registry tries to put poll problems behind it and set new strategy

Special report Home of the .asia gTLD has had a challenging year

Legal28 Dec 2023 |

That call center tech scammer could be a human trafficking victim

Interpol increasingly concerned as abject abuse of victims scales far beyond Asia origins

Security08 Dec 2023 | 29

Acer, Asus, Dell, HP, and Lenovo sign up for $42 billion scheme to make kit in India

ASIA IN BRIEF PLUS: Tata orders staff to move cities; Singapore okays stablecoins; Australia trials CoPilot; and more

Systems20 Nov 2023 | 4

South Korea opens the door for robots to roam among pedestrians

They'll have a top speed of 15km/h and need insurance before they roll

Personal Tech17 Nov 2023 | 27

Australia declares 'nationally significant cyber incident' after port attack

Asia in brief PLUS: Citrix quits China; Cambodia deports Japanese scammers; Chinese tech CEO disappears; and more

Security13 Nov 2023 | 3

Beijing slaps Foxconn with a tax audit

Asia In Brief ALSO: US may block clouds in China; Toyota reveals moon roover; Google expands Indian loan business; Xiaomi's new unifying OS; and more

Legal23 Oct 2023 | 7

India drops plan to place PCs on restricted import list

PLUS: TSMC chips away at export restrictions; Singapore's COVID model challenged; Japan's banking and ID systems wobble

Systems16 Oct 2023 |

US lawmakers want China export bans to include open tech like RISC-V

ASIA IN BRIEF PLUS: South Korea to fine Apple, Google; Digital fraud booms in Hong Kong; Singtel slings TrustWave

Legal08 Oct 2023 | 13

Fujitsu to quit Tokyo HQ

ASIA IN BRIEF PLUS: Micron breaks ground in India; Hong Kong goes for green fintech; Taiwan to launch first sub; and more

Off-Prem25 Sep 2023 | 2

Activist investor KKR buys 20 percent of Asian datacenter outfit

Owner of Cloudera and Barracuda likes the look of Singtel's portfolio

Off-Prem18 Sep 2023 | 3

China caught – again – with its malware in another nation's power grid

'Obtaining a disruptive capability could be one possible motivation behind this surge in attacks'

Research12 Sep 2023 | 20

Samsung teases 1TB DDR5 modules with launch of 32Gb die

Asia in Brief PLUS: China allows first wave of chatbots, India’s sun-spotter soars; ASUS smacks down speculation it will quit smartphones

On-Prem04 Sep 2023 | 3

Aerial cable tangles are still being strung up, but carriers are slowly burying the problem

'Sky spaghetti' remains on the menu for Asian carriers, and tourists

Networks28 Aug 2023 | 46

India Big four outsourcers all have people problems

APAC in brief Also: China taikonaut moon plans; Singapore's Temasek to stay clear of crypto; India ponders ban on for-profit .IN sales; and more.

Systems17 Jul 2023 | 7

India probes medical info 'leak' to Telegram

Asia In Brief PLUS: Vietnam's free domain names for youngsters; China's Cuba spy base; Hyundai and Samsung team for car chips; and more

Security13 Jun 2023 | 2

Electric two-wheelers are set to scoot past EVs in road race

Video Micromobility vehicles don't carry any baggage – and that's a good thing

Emerging Clean Energy Tech Week18 May 2023 | 80

Chinese state media hails Tesla megafactory in Shanghai as sign foreign business is on board

ASIA IN BRIEF Also: India gets an Apple store; ZTE sells next-gen servers outside China; Foxconn invests in EVs; and more

Personal Tech11 Apr 2023 | 6

Not so good morning Vietnam, as government announces, then buries news of Intel investment

$3.3 billion may or may not be on its way to expand Chipzilla's Ho Chi Minh City presence

Systems09 Feb 2023 | 4

Phone the rich: Premium handsets sole survivors of slump in India, China

Market shifts from volume-driven to value-driven

Personal Tech31 Jan 2023 | 3

Twitter's Singapore landlord says avian network still a tenant, despite eviction reports

This time last year the plan was for lots more hires. Then came Elon

Off-Prem13 Jan 2023 | 10

Flaming USB battery halts flight from Taiwan to Singapore

And that’s why aviation authorities don’t allow power banks in checked luggage

Personal Tech12 Jan 2023 | 32

Asia’s digital divides mean some can’t afford tech upgrade they need to compete

International Monetary Fund report suggests 'diffusion' - a kind of tech trickle-down - might sort things out

Software11 Jan 2023 | 1

Asia's superapps follow another hot tech trend: mass layoffs

Grab reveals caps on car numbers make ride-sharing miserable

Site News22 Nov 2022 | 3

Microsoft revising licenses and prices in Korea and Japan, won't say why

Asia In Brief PLUS: Tencent's edgy JV; US/China space spat; Facebook's India boss bails to join Snap; and more

Software06 Nov 2022 | 3

American techies in China may be breaking the law by showing up to work

Pundit tips next wave of bans will target foreign investment in Chinese tech

Legal14 Oct 2022 | 5

Grab – Asia's Uber – knows customers and drivers so well it can vet them for loans

Understands income streams, seasonality of sales, how hard drivers work, and safety records

Applications27 Sep 2022 | 4

India's IT services exports top $150 billion for the first time, US and UK are biggest buyers

Asia In Brief PLUS: APAC IT spend grows at over 5 percent; China's pop-up clampdown; Pakistan VPN exemptions; and more!

Software11 Sep 2022 | 9

Newly discovered cyberspy crew targets Asian governments and corporations

Worok uses mix of publicly available tools, custom malware to steal info, gang active since 2020

Security06 Sep 2022 |

Microsoft reviews M365 resilience after Indian outage

Asia In Brief Plus: Amazon and Alibaba risk Indonesia ban; Pegasus in Thailand; South Korea's semiconductor education surge; and more

SaaS24 Jul 2022 | 2

Singapore's Grab enters maps-as-a-service market

Takes on global players with data sourced from customers, plus paid contributions from delivery drivers

Software09 Jun 2022 | 3

Big Tech's maps led ride-sharing giant Grab astray

It now builds its own and says it has become the largest contributor to OpenStreetMap in Southeast Asia

Personal Tech01 Jun 2022 | 4

Microsoft says Azure fended off what might just be the world's biggest-ever DDoS attack

Much of the 2.4Tbit/sec came from across Asia and targeted a single Euro-customer

Security13 Oct 2021 | 29

Huawei growth weakens as COVID-19, politics bite to make carriers its slowest-growing segment

13 percent growth ain’t bad, but the Chinese giant has previously done better

On-Prem14 Jul 2020 | 1

Indonesia slaps 10 percent tax on three Googles

But only on one AWS, one Spotify and one Netflix - and zero Microsofts

Legal09 Jul 2020 | 5

Asia’s internet registry APNIC finds about 50 million unused IPv4 addresses behind the sofa

About three /8’s worth is a decent chunk of the total pool and locals unready to go all-in on IPv6 are hungry

Networks09 Jul 2020 | 22

AWS makes cloudy Outposts available across more of Asia

India, Malaysia, Taiwan and Thailand can now bring the Amazonian cloud on-prem

SaaS25 Jun 2020 |

Red Hot Chili Packets! New submarine cable to land in home of cult Sriracha sauce

Consortium reveals plan to connect seven Asian nations

Networks11 Jun 2020 | 8

Japanese dark-web drug dealers are so polite, they'll offer 'a refund' if you're not satisfied

Internet underground outside the West takes a different tone

Security08 Aug 2018 | 19

Pacnet becomes 'potential' prey for Australia's Telstra

Oh great. Dominant telco from five eyes member bidding to buy US-to-Asia cables

On-Prem17 Dec 2014 | 2

PhabletPhace: All the cool kids are doing it in Asia

Phát, smart and happy

Personal Tech27 Aug 2014 | 12

Foxconn devours $390m stake in Taiwanese 4G mobe network

Tasty slice of mobile broadband market ahead of planned slurp

On-Prem27 May 2014 |