In 2018, three brothers — Kenny Chan, 35, Johnathan Chan, 32 and Kayson Chan, 29 — saw an opportunity to bring in sophisticated gourmet food inspired by Italian culture into Singapore. The trio realised that consumers are getting more and more sophisticated with their choices of food. They then started …
Read More »Backed by Federal Funds, New Virus Tests Are Hitting the Market
WASHINGTON — The coronavirus pandemic remained a distant threat to many Americans on Jan. 24 when Douglas C. Bryant, the president and chief executive officer of Quidel Corporation, got a call from an official at the Food and Drug Administration. If the government helped, the official asked, would Quidel make …
Read More »Wet Markets Go Digital: Ride-Hailing App TADA Launches Market Delivery Service In S’pore
In July 2018, MVL Foundation Pte Ltd (Mass Vehicle Ledger, MVL) launched its blockchain-based ride-hailing app in Singapore. Today, it announced the launch of TADA Fresh Market, an online multi-wet market shopping platform. It delivers grocery from wet markets in Singapore directly to your doorstep. Explaining the move behind this …
Read More »Conquering The Computer Market With Custom PCs: Marcus Wee, Aftershock PC Founder
Marcus Wee stepped into the Vulcan Post office on a Thursday afternoon, looking comfortable in casual clothes. His hands were clutching on to a paper bag that he had stuffed in with his blazer. He had scrambled to find a decent formal attire of sorts for the photoshoot later, he …
Read More »How the growth of SAFE investments can lead to a collapse of the startup market
The COVID-19 pandemic has naturally made venture capitalists more cautious. Pitchbook analysts estimate that in the first quarter of 2020, the number of venture deals made in the 10 largest countries in Europe almost halved compared to the same period in 2019, from 1363 to 692, although the total investment …
Read More »Wildlife Trade Spreads Coronaviruses as Animals Get to Market
A study of the wildlife trade in three provinces in southern Vietnam produced startlingly clear confirmation for one of the underlying objections to the wildlife trade in Asia — the trading offers an ideal opportunity for viruses in one animal to infect another. In field rats, a highly popular animal …
Read More »Big Tech Zeros In on the Virus-Testing Market
Verily Life Sciences, a sister company of Google, scrambled to introduce a free coronavirus-screening site for the public and set up testing locations in March after President Trump made an off-the-cuff announcement about the program. It had a rocky start, but has since helped more than 220,000 people get tested …
Read More »Lawmakers Say Puff Bar Used Pandemic to Market to Teens
House lawmakers asked the Food and Drug Administration this week to ban Puff Bar, the fast-growing e-cigarette that has quickly replaced Juul as the vape of choice among young people. The disposable devices come in more than 20 flavors, among them piña colada, pink lemonade, watermelon and a mysterious blend …
Read More »7 Tips to Help Retirees Ride Out the Coronavirus Stock Market
Snezana Ignjatovic / Shutterstock.com Retirement can be a great time of life, but financial uncertainty is especially hard in this phase. If income is tight, every decision you make now counts. The current volatile stock market and low-interest-rate environment both are weighing on retirees’ financial decisions. How can you ride …
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