Internet of Things

Grab to roll out autonomous shuttle bus trial at one-north

It will operate on a fixed 3.9 km route between Grab’s headquarters and the nearby one-north MRT station

One worry about the IoT is that it turns everything around you into a spy. People are belatedly fretting about giving so much information about themselves to their computers and phones.

Wake me up when the Internet of Things is over

Makers of smart washing machines and refrigerators should admit defeat and let dumb things remain dumb

Malcolm Ong, chief executive and founder of The Fish Farmer, with a water quality monitoring sensor that detects changes in water conditions on his farms.

Using data to farm fish more efficiently

FACED with space constraints and rising costs, home-grown aquaculture company The Fish Farmer is using sensors and artificial intelligence (AI) to farm fish more efficiently.

BlackBerry will streamline its centralised corporate functions so that each business unit may operate independently and on a profitable and cashflow-positive basis.

BlackBerry names insider as CEO, abandons IPO plans for IoT business

CANADA’S BlackBerry on Monday (Dec 11) appointed the head of its cybersecurity unit, John Giamatteo, as chief executive officer and shelved a plan to spin off its Internet of Things (IoT) business.

BlackBerry joins a number of companies that have split their units in recent years, favoring a leaner corporate structure to help investors better evaluate their separate businesses.

BlackBerry to separate IoT and cybersecurity businesses, plans IPO

CANADIAN technology company BlackBerry said on Wednesday it would separate its Internet of Things (IoT) and cybersecurity business units and target a subsidiary initial public offering for the IoT bus...

The management team of UnaBiz after its acquisition of Sigfox. From left: UnaBiz chief commercial officer Loic Barancourt, chief technology officer Alexis Susset, co-founders and co-CEOs Philippe Chiu and Henri Bong, and chief operating officer Remi Francois.

IoT startup UnaBiz raises over US$25m in Series B extension

UNABIZ, a Singapore-based Internet of Things (IoT) startup, has raised an additional US$25 million in an extension to its Series B round in October last year. This brings its total Series B raise to o...

UnaBiz co-founder and co-chief Henri Bong still believes in Sigfox's technology

Singapore startup UnaBiz emerges as white knight to troubled French tech giant

Rapid expansion hobbled Sigfox, but entrepreneur Henri Bong sees a turnaround.

Robots aren't fully autonomous in how they learn and behave; how they function would still be determined by programming from human operators.

AI must consider human factors

THE future is here. Artificial intelligence (AI) has revolutionised the future of work and how humans perform daily tasks. This is especially true in workplaces that have begun automating their proces...

Chief executive of Envision Digital, Lei Zhang. The software maker on Tuesday said that it raised US$210 million in its Series A investment round.

GIC-backed Envision Digital raises US$210m in Series A round led by Sequoia China

SOFTWARE maker Envision Digital on Tuesday (Jun 7) said it raised US$210 million in its Series A investment round led by Sequoia China, with participation from GIC.