SeaPRwire – Zest began in November 2024 as a restaurant discovery app with an unusual data source. It connects to a user’s credit card through Plaid and builds its recommendations from where that person has actually paid for food and drink. This week the company put a concierge in text messages. A user texts (212) […]
SeaPRwire – Dream came out of stealth this week with $17 million in seed funding led by Andreessen Horowitz, with SV Angel, XYZ and Zigg Capital participating. The company was founded by Andy Elder and Arjun Mathur, who met as Stanford computer science students and spent the following decade at Palantir. Elder led product design […]
Dubai has 1,860 public charging points and 23,600 registered users. For a tenant on the 14th floor, the hard part is not the charger, it is the meter SeaPRwire – The car is not the problem. A 60kWh crossover sold in 2026 does 300 kilometres on a full battery in Gulf heat with the air […]
Four claims about Japanese elder care that circulate in English, checked against the 2025 payment statistics and the 2026 premium schedule SeaPRwire – Every few months an English-language outlet discovers that Japan’s long-term care insurance is about to collapse. The story usually opens with the cost figure, notes that the population is ageing, quotes a […]
HealthHub absorbs Health Buddy, the NUHS app and NHG Health by November 2026, leaving nine private hospitals and 2,000 GP clinics to decide what a shared record is worth AsiaPresswire – Singapore is doing something no other health system in the region has attempted at this scale: it is deleting three hospital apps and keeping […]
Inside the February 2026 price rises, the U Mobile handover and the DNB associate stake: what 30 million 5G subscriptions actually cost an operator in Malaysia AsiaPresswire – On paper, Malaysia finished its 5G argument. Two wholesale networks now run side by side, a state-owned wholesaler sells capacity to three tenants, and a fourth operator […]
SeaPRwire – Bill C-22, the Lawful Access Act, 2026, was introduced on 12 March, passed the House of Commons on 18 June and has been before a Senate committee since; as of 22 October it was still there. Planet VPN, a Romanian VPN operator, added a section on the bill to its guide to Canadian […]
SeaPRwire – A voice agent is assembled rather than bought. Someone wires a speech recogniser to a language model to a synthesiser, and then spends the rest of the build on the seams: audio buffers, turn detection, the half-second where a user talks over the bot. Pipecat is one of the frameworks that does the […]
SeaPRwire – The arithmetic has not moved. Democrats need a net gain of four Republican-held seats to control the Senate, and they still need it with five days to go. What moved is the number of places where that arithmetic could be satisfied. Alaska, Iowa, Kansas, Ohio and Texas — all won by double digits […]
SeaPRwire – A model release is usually a product event. This one is a procurement event. Mistral put the weights for Mistral Large 4, a trillion-parameter model it calls Le Chonk, on Hugging Face and behind its own API on Thursday, which means a customer can now take the checkpoint, install it on hardware it […]
SeaPRwire – The signal was red. The controller cleared the train anyway, and the train went. Óscar Puente, Spain’s transport minister, gave that sequence to reporters on Wednesday afternoon, less than a day after a Renfe AVE service running from Madrid towards Seville struck a stationary Iryo train near the town of Urda in Toledo […]
SeaPRwire – In June, an Alabama defense contractor called LOGZONE settled with the government after a review put its self-reported security score at minus 170. The company had posted a perfect 110 under NIST SP 800-171, the standard governing how contractors handle controlled unclassified information. In September, Honeywell Aerospace agreed to pay more than $2 […]
SeaPRwire – One phishing message, one link click, one unusual login. Each of the three, on its own, is an ordinary alert that a security team might triage, document and close. Read as a sequence, they sketch an account takeover in progress, with a window to intervene before the attacker gets anywhere. Living Security’s new […]
SeaPRwire – The operative part of New York’s new chatbot statute is a list. Twelve categories of “unsafe” feature may not be offered to users under 18, and the list is written as behaviour rather than as technical specification: a companion bot may not present itself as human, may not encourage self-harm, may not hold […]
Reading Schwab’s family office head against his own arithmetic: three figures that do not reconcile, and one fee shift that explains the pitch. AsiaPresswire – Sam Kang runs Schwab Family Office, an invitation-only unit of Charles Schwab that serves single family offices and multi family offices. In January 2026 he sat down with Steve Sanduski […]
SAMA data show electronic payments at 85% of retail while POS value per terminal falls 9.4% in a quarter; the constraint is now unit economics. AsiaPresswire – Saudi Arabia won the argument it spent a decade having. Electronic payments reached 85% of retail transactions in 2025, against a Financial Sector Development Program target of 70% […]
A costed comparison of transshipment, overseas plants and equipment exports for Chinese manufacturers in 2026, and where each route fails. SeaPRwire – In March 2026, US Customs and Border Protection opened an enforcement case over Chinese golf carts that had been shipped to the United States as Vietnamese goods. The case number is 8282. Interim […]
The same eight-month task, run through eTravel, the merged immigration series and a private estimate, yields three totals and two growth rates. SeaPRwire – On 4 September 2026, the Philippine Department of Tourism gave reporters a number: 4,115,860 international visitors for January to August, up 3.7% on the same months of 2025. On 18 September […]
Four widely repeated claims about Japan’s eldercare crisis in 2026, where each one came from, and what survives after the arithmetic. AsiaPresswire – Japan has been buying machines for its care homes for more than a decade, and it has been short of care workers for longer than that. Both facts are true at the […]
Why the binding constraint on Gulf energy and AI data centre buildout in 2026 is neither capital nor chips but the queue for an energised grid connection. AsiaPresswire – Two record buildouts are running across the Gulf at the same time in 2026, and they are colliding over the same scarce input. Saudi Arabia and […]