Entrepreneurship

Radiant World and its founder sued in Singapore for US$34 million
The case against Radiant World, the group’s main operating unit, is listed as “tort of deceit conspiracy by unlawful means”Published Fri, Aug 28, 2026 · 06:57 AM — Updated...
Nvidia adds US$442 billion after robust forecast sparks second-biggest stock surge ever
Published Fri, Aug 28, 2026 · 06:27 AMNVIDIA added US$442 billion to its market value on Thursday (Aug 27) in the second-largest one-day gain by any stock in history.Shares...
Oil on track for weekly loss even as Iran tensions simmer
Trump not interested in returning to previous deal terms with Iran, says Wall Street JournalPublished Fri, Aug 28, 2026 · 06:17 AM — Updated Fri, Aug 28, 2026 ·...
US stocks: Nasdaq, S&P 500 lifted by Nvidia’s forecast; investors eye speech by US Fed’s Warsh
Published Fri, Aug 28, 2026 · 06:15 AM[NEW YORK] The technology-heavy Nasdaq outperformed peers at the close of trade on Thursday (Aug 27) after chipmaker Nvidia’s bumper revenue forecast...
AI Agent Interoperability Gets a Neutral Home at Last
Google handed its Agent2Agent protocol to the Linux Foundation directed Agentic AI Foundation last week, putting it into the same governance as Anthropic’s Model Context Protocol. The transfer was...
US Canada Tariffs Escalate With Retaliation Set for Sept 8
Washington and Ottawa walked away from the table last weekend, and the collapse of those talks triggered 50 percent US tariffs on roughly $20 billion of Canadian goods. Canada...
Small Business Grants: 5 Lessons From Jobber’s $250K
Jobber handed out $250,000 to nine commercial and home service businesses this week, announcing the 2026 recipients from Toronto on August 25. Of the six years the program has...
Consumer Confidence Report: Now Is Fine, Later Is Not
The Conference Board’s August consumer confidence report, released Tuesday from New York, slipped 0.8 points to 89.4 on the 1985 base, down from 90.2 in July. The headline move...
Perplexity AI Valuation Tops $30B as Nvidia Circles
Nvidia is weighing a multibillion-dollar stake in Perplexity that would carry the AI search company past a $30 billion price tag, according to reports that surfaced this week. Neither...
Singapore plays premium data centre game as Johor, Batam take on scale
With land and power at a premium, the Republic homes in on workloads with stronger reasons to be hosted on its shores[SINGAPORE] Singapore is carving out a premium role...
SoftBank in talks to buy stake in humanoid developer 1X at US$6 billion valuation: report
Published Thu, Aug 27, 2026 · 12:41 PMSOFTBANK is in talks to buy a majority stake in OpenAI-backed humanoid robot developer 1X Technologies in a deal that would value...
Bank of Korea delivers back-to-back rate hike to curb inflation risks
Published Thu, Aug 27, 2026 · 09:38 AMTHE Bank of Korea raised its benchmark interest rate at a second consecutive meeting, moving to contain inflation risks fuelled by stronger-than-expected...