Entrepreneurship

‘Full of confidence’ in South-east Asia: Cosco Shipping eyes investments in Malaysia, Vietnam and Indonesia to power growth
The logistics player bets on regional presence amid manufacturing growth and Chinese trade flows[SINGAPORE] Mainboard-listed Cosco Shipping International (Singapore) is looking to South-east Asia for growth, betting that rising...
Nvidia has US$21 billion SpaceX stake, US$30 billion in Intel shares
Published Sat, Aug 15, 2026 · 03:52 PM[SAN FRANCISCO] Nvidia on Friday (Aug 14) disclosed a nearly US$21 billion stake in Elon Musk’s SpaceX and a US$30 billion one...
Harvard fund discloses US$2.2 billion stake in Musk’s SpaceX
Published Sat, Aug 15, 2026 · 02:27 PM[NEW YORK] Harvard Management disclosed a US$2.2 billion stake in SpaceX, showing how the university’s endowment has profited from an early bet...
Leveraged ETFs snap back as casino crowd mints US$50 billion
Published Sat, Aug 15, 2026 · 12:09 PM[NEW YORK] Three weeks ago, Wall Street’s casino crowd took a beating. AI stocks buckled, semiconductor shares tumbled and leveraged trades unravelled.Now...
Oil climbs over US$1 on tanker attacks, no progress on peace
Published Sat, Aug 15, 2026 · 08:58 AM[HOUSTON] Crude oil futures climbed over US$1 a barrel on Friday (Aug 14) on tanker attacks and a lack of progress on...
US: S&P 500 ends lower as investors weigh data, Middle East tensions
Published Sat, Aug 15, 2026 · 08:31 AM[NEW YORK] The S&P 500 closed lower on Friday (Aug 14), dipping from a record high and weighed down by Applied Materials,...
Investor Relations Data Draws $18M for AI Startup Quartr
Investor relations data just proved it can power a fast-growing business, as Quartr raised $18 million, or about 15.6 million euros, on August 11 to expand its data platform....
Insurtech Startups Rise as Axle Raises $17.5M Series A
Insurance data startup Axle has raised $17.5 million in Series A funding, the company said on August 11, in a round led by Base10 Partners. The financing lands as...
Short Form Video Wins as Founder Content Beats Ads
Short form video is quietly rewriting the rules of attention, and new social media research for August 2026 shows why. Low-production clips, single-take videos, employee posts, and plain founder...
Solopreneur Boom: 29.8M Solo Owners, $1.7T in Sales
The solopreneur economy just posted numbers that are hard to ignore, with new QuickBooks research counting 29.8 million solo business owners in the United States generating roughly $1.7 trillion...
Live Shopping Booms as Whatnot Hits $20B Valuation
Whatnot has raised $545 million in a Series G round that values the live shopping marketplace at $20 billion, nearly doubling its worth in under a year. ICONIQ, Lightspeed,...
DFI Retail Group to be exclusive wholesaler for GNC in Hong Kong, Macau, Singapore
This is part of a new partnership between the two companies to deepen access to GNC’s health and wellness products and solutions.[SINGAPORE] DFI Retail Group will be the exclusive...