At a time where the fight for market share in the global Android smartphone market was thought to be over, it is difficult to imagine a new entrant posing a significant challenge to existing smartphone brands. This is especially so when it takes hundreds of millions of dollars in R&D …
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Launched in December 2017, BlueSG offers an affordable and convenient mobility option to Singaporeans with its electric car-sharing service. It is a subsidiary of the Bolloré Group, which launched the world’s largest car-sharing service Autolib’ in Paris. Now, BlueSG is the world’s second largest electric car-sharing service. It currently has …
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The food and beverage (F&B) industry is a tough line to be in — from intense competition to rising manpower and rental costs and now, a global pandemic. According to Enterprise Singapore, only 60 per cent of small F&B businesses survive in their first five years of operation, and a …
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Shiok Meats, the world’s first cell-based crustacean meat company based in Singapore, has raised US$ 12.6 million (S$ 17.27 million) in a Series A funding round. The Series A round is led by Aqua-Spark, the first investment fund focused on sustainable aquaculture. Other investors include SEEDS Capital (the investment arm …
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Raph Koster has been a guru of online games for decades, and he would love to build Metaverse, the universe of virtual worlds that are all interconnected, like in novels such as Snow Crash and Ready Player One. But first, the CEO of Playable Worlds knows he has to create an outstanding game first. …
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