Innovation
The motorcycle diaries: Startups and innovation
South-East Asia has some of the fastest growing markets, the most innovative tech companies, and the most active investors in spite of its fundamental weaknesses – and leapfrogging companies will pull in the investments, writes Golden Gate Ventures’ Justin Hall.
Five drivers for APAC IT services spending in 2015: IDC
IDC's 2014 IT Services Survey results reveal that the top five focus areas for IT services spending in the coming 12 months are IT infrastructure resources consolidation; security enhancement; IT-enabled business innovation; social applications; and big data and analytics.
Innovation gets more budget and mindshare in APAC banks: IDC
The new benchmark for spending on ‘new’ categories of technology, as opposed to spending on ‘business-as-usual,’ is 25% in the banking industry, according to IDC Financial Insights.
Singapore dominates EmTech’s regional under-35 innovators’ list
Eight of the 10 regional finalists from South-East Asia and Australia/ New Zealand for EmTech Singapore are either based in Singapore or work in Singaporean research institutes, the conference organiser said in a statement.
A 'fluid' way to cool high-density data centres
New immersion cooling technology drastically cuts energy and space costs
Key to technology are new techniques and new super fluid by 3M
Stellar speaker list grows for MIT’s EmTech Singapore conference
MIT Technology Review’s EmTech Singapore conference is picking up steam with more speakers joining an already stellar list.
SAP innovation centre in Singapore targeting startups, among others
SAP SE said it will establish an SAP Innovation Centre in Singapore by the end of 2014, focusing on smart cities, healthcare, digital consumers, and what it calls ‘Industry 4.0’ technologies.
Gartner’s top predictions: Shift in man-machine relationship
In its top predictions for IT organisations and IT users for 2015 and beyond, Gartner said it has begun to examine a shift in the age-old relationship between man and machine due to the emergence of digital business.
Creativity: It’s about the bottomline, research finds
Companies that foster creativity achieve more exceptional revenue growth than their peers, according to the Creative Dividend survey conducted by Forrester Consulting and commissioned by Adobe.
MIT Technology Review looking for regional innovators under 35
MIT Technology Review is looking for 10 young innovators from or based in South-East Asia, Australia and New Zealand, whose technical work promises to change the world.
