Business & Economy

Industry’s Only Real-time, High Fidelity 3D Mobile Ads Bring Products Out of the Showcase and Into Users’ Hands   REDWOOD CITY, CA and SINGAPORE, September 18, 2013 – Amobee, the company defining digital advertising, today announced the next generation of its ground...

William Zheng Wei, a former Singapore Press Holdings business editor, has been named the chief editor of the South China Morning Post's new Chinese-language Web site. His mandate? Don't carry anything controversial. Zheng's appointment was announced on Monday in an...

Do you enjoy being in piles of debt? Does your definition of “a good time” involve rolling around in unpaid bills, like some kind of reverse Scrooge McDuck? No? Well a significant number of you must be lying, because...

By Chanel Morgan Prospects for the lowest income earners in Singapore look to be getting even tougher. Without an official poverty line, and being the third richest country in the world, shouldn’t we strive to be a more charitable nation? Our country is...

Yeah, I know we covered this topic before. But it was before all the big changes we've seen, so that old guide's now as useful as a car manual from the time of The Flintstones. And since some of...

Affordable housing is a big ticket issue right now. And when our government tackles a problem, they do it with a uniquely Singaporean slant: That is, the unshakeable conviction that anything worth doing is worth overdoing. Enter the latest...

Amobee, the mobile advertising company bought by SingTel for $321 million last year, has bought Gradient X, a young Los Angeles-based developer of a real-time bidding platform for mobile ads, which has just come out of beta. The undisclosed sale price...

By Gabriel Yap Africa has posted economic growth of 5% per annum over the past five years. A figure forecast by the IMF to increase to 5.5% this year and 6% in 2014.  It seems that the Eurozone crisis or...

Ordinary Singaporean Adrian Tan, 52, has questions for Leong Sze Hian on the proposed changes to health-care financing: What are the proposed changes in Medisave? Allow Medisave money to be used for more treatments, especially for the elderly, such as for...

P Francis, who emigrated from Singapore to Australia in 1990, reflects on his early years as an immigrant and what awaits new arrivals now. IMMIGRATION is a hot topic today, especially in Australia, as the federal elections are on the...