Entrepreneurship

Suez Canal revival gathers pace as Hormuz crisis reroutes ships
Published Tue, Sep 8, 2026 · 04:54 PM[CAIRO] Suez Canal revenue rose 42 per cent in July from the year earlier, as the Iran war’s effective closure of the...
BYD targets 2.5 million overseas sales in 2027 as China price war squeezes profits
Firm to address shipping constraints through expanded fleet of dedicated car carriers and localised manufacturingPublished Tue, Sep 8, 2026 · 04:35 PMBYD has set an ambitious target to sell...
Air India investment has ‘not adversely affected’ SIA’s ability to serve Singaporeans for now: Jeffrey Siow
The Indian investments have been and will continue to be funded through SIA’s internal resource, says the airline[SINGAPORE] Jeffrey Siow, Minister For Transport crossed swords with Workers’ Party MP...
CapitaLand targets US$500 million for third Asian credit fund: Bloomberg
The Temasek-backed asset manager will primarily target existing investors for APC IIIPublished Tue, Sep 8, 2026 · 10:49 AMSINGAPORE’S CapitaLand Investment (CLI) is targeting US$500 million in commitments from...
Trump says Canada’s Bombardier cannot sell in US unless it builds there
Published Tue, Sep 8, 2026 · 06:28 AMUS PRESIDENT Donald Trump said on Monday (Aug 7) that Canadian private jet maker Bombardier would no longer be allowed to sell...
Small Business Hiring Slows While Pay Keeps Climbing
Small business hiring cooled again last month, according to the Gusto Small Business Jobs Report published September 3. Small employers added roughly 29,500 net new jobs in August on...
Enterprise AI Startups Win Seed Cash for Unglamorous Work
Munich-based Zeit AI raised 5 million euros in seed funding on September 3, one of eight rounds logged in a single overnight window. Y Combinator, Oxford Seed Fund, Sequoia...
Google Ads AI Max Auto-Upgrade Hits Small Advertisers
Google Ads AI Max is now converting a large slice of search campaigns automatically, and the migration window opened on September 1 and runs through September 30. Google emailed...
Open Source AI Models Change Hands in Nvidia’s $12.9B Deal
Nvidia has agreed to buy Hugging Face for $12.93 billion, a purchase the chipmaker confirmed on September 3, placing the largest public catalog of open source AI models under...
New Huawei device is China’s answer to foldable iPhone
Published Mon, Sep 7, 2026 · 10:18 PM[BEIJING] Huawei Technologies and Xiaomi are raising the stakes in China’s smartphone arena just days before Apple’s first foray into the foldable...
DBS, Citi bypass traditional banking hours with weekend tokenised deposit payment
Standard cross-border settlement can take up to 2 business days due to time zones, weekend closures[SINGAPORE] DBS and Citigroup executed a cross-border US dollar payment on Saturday (Sep 5)...
China insurer capital injections could boost stock investments, analysts say
Published Mon, Sep 7, 2026 · 03:11 PM[BEIJING/SHANGHAI] Beijing’s plan to inject capital into big state-owned insurers is expected to ease capital constraints and solvency pressures that have held...