FinTech

Employee Communication Platform Staffbase Raises $23m In Series C

Mobile-first platform Staffbase has raised $23m (€20.5m) in Series C funding, bringing the total raised by the compan... Read more

Buymie Raises €1.6m In New Venture Funding Round

Same-day delivery grocery start-up Buymie has announced the closure of €1.6m in new venture funding and the appointme... Read more

LG CNS To Apply Blockchain To Food Distribution

It will be based on LG's blockchain platform Monachain​. Read more

Singapore Wants More Details On Facebook Libra Before Deciding On Regulatory Response

Country's central bank remains in talks with Facebook and wants more details on how the US social media platform plans t... Read more

LG Expects Q2 Profits To Drop 15% From Lacklustre OLED TV And Mobile Sales

Analysts expect LG's mobile business to have operating losses of around 200 billion won for the second quarter. Read more

Samsung Boss Visits Tokyo Amid Japan-Korea Trade Scuffle Escalation

Samsung boss JY Lee is reportedly planning talks with Japanese business leaders to discuss how to go forward with Japan'... Read more

Google Goes For Verticals, Scale In APAC Cloud Push

Cloud vendor has identified health and life sciences as well as retail amongst key growth sectors and is looking to trip... Read more

Samsung Q2 Profit Falls 56% From Chip Downturn

Samsung is expecting operating profits of 6.5 trillion won for the second quarter, a drop of 56% from 14.87 trillion won... Read more

South Korea To Install Free Wi-Fi On All City Buses

Around 23,000 buses operating within South Korean cities will have Wi-Fi installed onto them by December. Read more

China Cracks Down On Podcasts And Audio Apps

The recent cleanup on audio information follows China's serial crackdown on online text information, video, and games th... Read more

Hyundai And Kia Invest $4.2m In New Korean Cab-calling App

The app, Macaron Taxi, currently has a fleet of 200 cars with Hyundai and Kia expected to supply it with more vehicles. Read more

Spotify Has Shut Down Its Beta Music Uploading Programme For Unsigned Artists

In September 2018, Swedish music streaming giant Spotify unveiled a new beta feature that allowed artists to upload the... Read more

Facebook Announces Crackdowns On White Supremacy And Ad Discrimination

Facebook has announced a series of new policies surrounding enforcement against harmful content, discrimination in ads,... Read more

Forbidden Light Wave Tool Could Lead To Crazy-fast Quantum Computers

A breakthrough in the murky and little-understood field of quantum matter and energy at terahertz and nanometre scales ... Read more

NUI Galway Awarded €3.9m From EU To Develop Multiple Sclerosis Treatments

Yesterday (1 July) Dr Una Fitzgerald, principal investigator of the Multiple Sclerosis Research Lab and director of the... Read more