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Daily Briefing: 7-Eleven suspends EZ-Link, top-up services; Healthtech startup X-Zell secures $5.44m in Seed+ round
Daily Briefing: 7-Eleven suspends EZ-Link, top-up services; Healthtech startup X-Zell secures $5.44m in Seed+ round
And ABC Bargain Centre, ABC Express, Valu$ to stop using misleading ads.
Average Singaporean needs 8 days to afford iPhone 12 Pro: survey
They would also have to avoid eating for 8 days.
Retail sales index down 9% as circuit breaker halts tourism
As muted tourism continues, retailers in Singapore are looking to see improvement.
New smart e-motorbikes Southeast Asia's answer to Tesla?
With US$3.3m in seed money, the company hopes to bring e-motorbikes to the mass market.
NODX up 5.9% in September
Last year’s low base of electronics pushed the gains.
NORX up 5.1% in September
The growth in electronic NORX outweighed the decline in non-electronics.
Leaders advance digital investments to future-proof from disruptions
Majority of Singaporean businesses are confident that they will survive the next global fallout.
Daily Markets Briefing: STI down 1.25%
Medtecs Intl saw the sharpest decline amongst top active stocks with a 8.09% contraction.
Daily Briefing: GIC invests in StorageMart; MOM mulls stiffer penalty on employers illegally deploying foreign domestic workers
And find ouw what cheap e-commerce platforms really mean for Singapore.
New private home sales hit two-year high as demand surges
The previous quarter also saw the highest sales volumes since Q2 2013.
Singapore, Hong Kong to establish travel bubble
The Lion City has lowered the quarantine entry for Hong Kong travellers.
CapitaLand's Ascott secures record over 2,100 new units in China
The lodging business unit signed more than 5,600 units in China to date.
HDB, condo rental volumes rebound in September
Demand for HDB rental units may have risen rose as employers move workers out of dorms.
SPH reports $83.7m loss in FY2020 due to COVID-19
They recorded a non-cash fair value loss of $232m during the period.
Hyflux disputes claims made by aspiring white knight Utico
Hyflux protested Utico's allegations that they did not hold townhalls due to 'costs', 'waste of time'.
SIA rolls out new payments, lifestyle rewards app
The app is integrated with KrisPay.
MAS keeps monetary policy unchanged in October
It expects Singapore’s growth momentum to remain weak in the near-term.
Commentary
‘Tokenmaxxing’ – The wrong AI race to run in Singapore
To outsmart modern fraud, we must first know the enemy
Why Singapore SMEs cannot wait for quantum cyber risk to arrive before securing data
Is Singapore's emphasis on long-term security and stability hindering purpose-driven employees?
When Singapore's agentic AI ‘chefs’ arrive, will the kitchen be ready for them?
What Singapore’s app store rules reveal about the future of online trust
Faster hiring alone will not fix construction’s productivity problem
Beyond policy: How Singapore's service sector can win at the frontline
Solving the production problem behind Singapore’s ‘pilot purgatory’