FinTech

Stripe Urges Retailers To Use Machine Learning In Fight Against Online Fraud

Stripe has revealed insights from its data to help online businesses fight online fraud this Christmas, and has recomme... Read more

How Can We Fix The Leaky Pipeline And Keep Women In STEM?

How can we make engineering and computer science better fields for women to have a career? A new report published by th... Read more

This Home For Underprivileged Coders Will Put The Indian Government And IT Industry To Shame

NavGurukul is a shining example of how easy it is to tackle poverty and a lack of self-belief and skilling all in one sh... Read more

​South Korea Aims For Paperless Society With Wider E-document Use

Around 1,400 laws that require physical paper reports from companies will be overturned, allowing for electronic documen... Read more

​Naver To Open Patent Of Augmented Strength Robotic Cart

Naver Labs will open the patent and design of AIRCART, a robotic cart with physical human-robot interaction technology, ... Read more

Rakuten Touts Online User Base In Bid For Japan's Mobile Market

Tokyo-based e-commerce operator plans to apply for 4G frequencies, which will be made available by the Japanese governme... Read more

Singapore Defence Ministry Invites Hackers To Breach Its Systems

Country's Ministry of Defence will run a "bug bounty" programme, led by HackerOne, inviting hackers worldwide to identif... Read more

​South Korea To Tax Bitcoin Profits, Ban Foreigners From Trading

Foreigners and minors will be prevented from creating accounts or trading virtual currencies in South Korea, the governm... Read more

​Samsung And Amazon Launch HDR10 Plus Content

Samsung Electronics and Amazon have launched HDR10 Plus-applied content on Amazon Prime Video. Read more

Airbnb Sees China As Its Number One Market By 2020

The number of rooms in China ready for rent on Airbnb has reached 150,000, according to a co-founder of the global room ... Read more

A Note To Designers: You Dont Own The Design

“We know this solution is more usable based on the feedback the usability tests provide us with, but it’s just a bi... Read more

As Alibaba Ramps Up, Amazon Loses The Plot In Asia

The US online retailer finally introduces Amazon Prime in Singapore but the launch has been described as "piecemeal", wh... Read more

8 Cool Gift Ideas For A Grown-up Geek

Need gift ideas for the beloved geek in your life? For starters, most of the Silicon Republic office would be happy wit... Read more

Diamond-film, Double-glazed Solar Panels Could Offer Serious Power

A new solar power device – unlike any existing solar panel – has been invented by a team of researchers at the Univ... Read more

Weekend Takeaway: Make Way For The Future Of Medtech

Medtech Rising: Ireland will benefit from $522bn global medtech market Connemara, Co Galway. Galway is a major medtec... Read more